Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

Jane Tylus, B.A., Ph.D.

As Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, Jane Tylus provides leadership to ensure academic excellence throughout the University. She collaborates with the deans on the development, coordination, and review of academic programs and curricula largely in the area of graduate studies; participates in the annual academic planning process with the schools; and oversees the operations of the Office of Academic Appointments, the Office of Academic Program Review, and the university's assessment initiatives. She also is the provost's point person for diversity, overseeing the NYU Postdoctoral and Transition Program for Academic Diversity and the provost's council on diversity as well as other related initiatives. Dr. Tylus supports and oversees the Provostial Institutes, including the Humanities Initiative (for which she serves as Academic Director), the Remarque Institute, the Institute for Public Knowledge, the New York Institute for the Humanities, the Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the Center for Dialogues. Dr. Tylus has an ongoing role in developing graduate programming at Villa La Pietra in Florence.

Dr. Tylus is a Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature. She is the author of over twenty-five articles on European Renaissance literature, theatre, and religion. Her books include Writing and Vulnerability in the Late Renaissance, Epic Traditions in the Contemporary World (co-edited with Margaret Beissinger and Susanne Wofford), Sacred Narratives of Lucrezia Tornabuoni de’Medici, which won the award for best translation from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women, and Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literature, Literacy, and the Signs of Others. She has also edited the volume on Early Modern Europe for the Longman Anthology of World Literature. Her translation of the complete poetry of Gaspara Stampa is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press, as well as a co-edited volume Gerry Milligan from Toronto entitled"The Poetics of Early Modern Masculinity in Italy and Spain"; her current work includes a book also for Chicago, "Imagining Siena: Essays on a Medieval Town." She currently sits on the editorial board for the journal Italica and is a member of the advisory committee for Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence. She is also a disciplinary representative for the Renaissance Society of America and for the Modern Language Association. Prior to coming to NYU in September 2003, Dr. Tylus was Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she also served as Associate Dean for the Arts and Humanities.

Dr. Tylus received her Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University’s Humanities Center in 1985 and her B.A. from the College of William and Mary.