Margaret L. King

A native New Yorker, Margaret L. King attended the Bronx High School of Science before proceeding to Sarah Lawrence College (BA, 1967) and Stanford University (MA, 1968; Ph.D. 1972). At Brooklyn College, CUNY, since 1972, and the Graduate Center since 1987, she has taught courses in the Italian Renaissance, the history of childhood, Renaissance women, the humanist tradition, early modern historiography, and ancient Greece and Rome.

She has published four books on different aspects of the culture of Renaissance Italy, the most recent being The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (Chicago, 1994). Executive Director of the Renaissance Society of America from 1987 through 1995, and co-editor of Renaissance Quarterly from 1984-1988, she expects to resume the role of RQ co-editor in July 1997.

She is currently a member of the editorial board for the Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, to be published by Scribner's, and is working simultaneously on a textbook project and a monograph on mothers in history.