Catherine Kovesi
Title
Professor
Institution
University of Melbourne
Current Research
How to Buy a Unicorn: the historical contingency of trade in one-horned creatures in Venice
Discourses of Luxury in Early Modern Italy
Discourses of Luxury in Early Modern Italy
Recent Publications
"The World of Goods", in Alessandro Arcangeli (ed.), A Cultural History of Leisure. The Renaissance (London: Bloomsbury 2024), vol. 3, Chapter 7.
"The Rhinoceros as 'Mid-Wife to Divine Wonderment' in Edward Topsell's The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes," Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 22.1 (2022): 71-84
"Foreword: Bridges and Breaches", in Michelle Elvy and Marco Sonzogni (eds.), Breach of All Size: Small Stories on Ulysses, Love and Venice (Wellington, NZ: Cuba Press, 2022).
(Guest editor), Luxury's Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice. Special Issue of the journal Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, 8.1 (2021)
"Luxury's Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice: An Introduction to a Special Edition," Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, 8.1 (2021): 5-10
"Gigi Bon, the Rhinoceros, Venice, and the Unbearable Heaviness of Being," Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, 8.1 (2021): 13-40
'The Abbotsford Convent and James Goold: Architecture as the Embodiment of Charism', in Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody (eds.), The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and His Legacy in Colonial Melbourne (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2021), 210-233
"Society, Family, and Gender," in Isabella Lazzarini (ed.), Short Oxford History of Europe: The Later Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), Chapter 6, pp. 171-192.
C. Kovesi and L. Johnson, "Mammoth Tusk Beads and Vintage Elephant Skin Bags: Wildlife, Conservation, and Rethinking Ethical Fashion,” Fashion Theory, 24.7 (2020): 983-1011
"The Rhinoceros as 'Mid-Wife to Divine Wonderment' in Edward Topsell's The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes," Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 22.1 (2022): 71-84
"Foreword: Bridges and Breaches", in Michelle Elvy and Marco Sonzogni (eds.), Breach of All Size: Small Stories on Ulysses, Love and Venice (Wellington, NZ: Cuba Press, 2022).
(Guest editor), Luxury's Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice. Special Issue of the journal Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, 8.1 (2021)
"Luxury's Fragile Frontier: The Rhinoceros and Venice: An Introduction to a Special Edition," Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, 8.1 (2021): 5-10
"Gigi Bon, the Rhinoceros, Venice, and the Unbearable Heaviness of Being," Luxury: History, Culture, Consumption, 8.1 (2021): 13-40
'The Abbotsford Convent and James Goold: Architecture as the Embodiment of Charism', in Jaynie Anderson, Max Vodola and Shane Carmody (eds.), The Architecture of Devotion: James Goold and His Legacy in Colonial Melbourne (Melbourne: The Miegunyah Press, 2021), 210-233
"Society, Family, and Gender," in Isabella Lazzarini (ed.), Short Oxford History of Europe: The Later Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), Chapter 6, pp. 171-192.
C. Kovesi and L. Johnson, "Mammoth Tusk Beads and Vintage Elephant Skin Bags: Wildlife, Conservation, and Rethinking Ethical Fashion,” Fashion Theory, 24.7 (2020): 983-1011
Forthcoming Publications
Co-general editor (with Timothy McCall), A Cultural History of Luxury (6 vols.) (London: Bloomsbury).
Co-editor (with Timothy McCall), A Cultural History of Luxury: The Middle Ages.
Co-editor (with Timothy McCall), A Cultural History of Luxury: The Renaissance.
Co-editor (with Timothy McCall), A Cultural History of Luxury: The Middle Ages.
Co-editor (with Timothy McCall), A Cultural History of Luxury: The Renaissance.