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Nerida Newbigin

Emeritus Professor Nerida Newbigin

  • Post Nominals: FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 1995
  • Section(s): European Languages And Cultures

Biography

Nerida Newbigin taught Italian Language and Literature at the University of Sydney from 1970 until her retirement in December 2008. She is now a full-time researcher. Her research interests are philological and historical: the history of theatre and performance in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, late medieval lay piety, and the editing and interpretation of theatrical texts and archival material. In June 2009, she set up a web page of transcriptions, texts, and translations prepared in conjunction with her teaching and research. She was elected to the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1995, and appointed to a personal chair in Italian Studies in 2001.

In 2022 she received three major awards. In May, Making a Play for God (Toronto 2021) was awarded the Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society’s David Bevington Prize for the best new book in early drama studies. In June she was admitted to the Accademia dell’Arcadia, founded in Rome in in 1690. And in December she received the inaugural David Moss Prize, awarded by the Australasian Centre for Italian Studies, for her contribution to Italian Studies in Australia.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.