Kristen Vitale

Kristen Vitale is a Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of Connecticut, USA. Her research focuses on early Henrician spectacle, court culture, and performative politics in the early Tudor state. Kristen’s work analyzes the relationship among courtly cultural preferences, their corresponding depictions, and efforts to actualize those depictions as political propaganda. More broadly, she focuses on the politico-cultural syncretism and interactions between the courts of late medieval and early modern Western Europe and the Southern Mediterranean regions. Kristen has presented her work at conferences in the United States and Europe. Her research has been awarded fellowships at the Medieval Academy of America and the Richard III Society – American Branch, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the UConn Humanities Institute.