IAS News Julia L. Hairston Honored for Bringing Italian Epic to English Readers November 11, 2026 Julia L. Hairston, Felix Gilbert Member (2016) in the School of Historical Studies, has received the 2026 Josephine Roberts Award for a Scholarly Edition from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender. She received the prize for an edition of Tullia d’Aragona's The Wretch, the only English translation of the first epic poem written by an Italian woman. Read More