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Professor Ross research obsessions lie in the world of Renaissance Europe, and especially in Italy. Working at the intersection of social and intellectual history, she is fascinated by the ways that people outside the ranks of the robustly enfranchised encountered, talked about, drew inspiration from, and improved their lives through education in general, and the classical literary tradition in particular. She has published extensively on women writers, and the dynamics of Renaissance feminism. She has also unearthed from wills and household inventories the literary lives of ordinary Venetian men and women, telling their stories in her recent book聽Everyday Renaissances: The Quest for Cultural Legitimacy in Venice聽(2016). Ross current work turns to class-defying, genre-obliterating, gender-bending聽commedia dell檃rte聽performers. Her new project follows the Andreini family (a dynasty of actors) through two generations as they wooed patrons, lured audiences, and dodged Counter-Reformation censors.

Ross rejoices that her research and writing have been supported not only by Boston College but also by a number of external foundations, including the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University, and Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Books, ideas, the gloriously strange people who love books and ideas, artistic people, everyday people � these are the protagonists of Professor Ross courses no less than her research. For undergraduates she offers a History Core, 淓urope and the World I,� as well as electives on the 淎ge of the Renaissance,� and 淥dysseys in the Western and Islamic Traditions,� which she co-teaches with Professor Dana Sajdi. Ross also teaches a research seminar on 淲omen of the Renaissance� for history majors. Ross graduate courses include a colloquium on early modern Europe, and one on 淕ender History and the Scholar Craft Today.� She has several new undergraduate electives in the planning stages, including one on the Venetian Empire, and another on sex, sexuality, and gender in the聽commedia dell檃rte.听