Irina Mykhailova, The Italian Renaissance in the Early Soviet Era: Between Political Appropriation and Intellectual Connoisseurship

Iryna Mykhailova is a historian of Renaissance philosophy currently based at the University of Göttingen. Her work focuses on the Italian Renaissance and its historiography, with particular attention to the reception of the Renaissance in Central and Eastern Europe. She is working on a monograph, The Italian Renaissance in the Soviet Union: Historiography and Cultural Reception, 1920s–1980s, as well as an edited volume, Historiographies Lost and Reclaimed: Scholarship on the Italian Renaissance in Central and Eastern Europe, both under contract with Brill. She has held several international fellowships, including a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship. Her current research is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.