Mary-Michelle DeCoste is an associate professor of Italian studies at the University of Guelph, and in 2010 she held a Craig Hugh Smyth Visiting Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, Harvard University s Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy. Publications include "Hopeless Love: Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire" (2009), as well as articles in journals "Quaderni d Italianistica" and "Heliotropia" and chapters in a number of edited books.