#  Vanessa 'V.M.' Braganza 

 



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## Biography

V.M. Braganza is a public-facing intellectual and book detective, and a PhD candidate in English at Harvard. She writes for *Smithsonian*, *Lithub*, *Mental Floss*, and the *LA Review of Books*. Her academic work has appeared in a variety of scholarly journals and volumes, including the forthcoming *Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women's Writing in English*. She was co-coordinator of Harvard's Renaissance Colloquium in 2020-21.

A curator whose past work includes programming at the Library of Congress, she is the lead curator of the exhibit *500 Years of Women Authors, Authorizing Themselves* on display at Harvard’s Houghton Library until March 11, 2022 and digitally browsable [here](https://vmbraganza.wixsite.com/women-authors).

Formerly an Echols Scholar, Braganza graduated *summa cum laude* with a BA in Medieval and Renaissance Literature from the University of Virginia. She is a member of the Foundation of St. John's College, Cambridge, where she earned her MPhil with Distinction in Renaissance Literature. In 2022, Braganza was named a [Harvard Horizons Scholar](https://gsas.harvard.edu/academics/professional-development/harvard-horizons) and a [Bowdoin Prize](https://prizes.fas.harvard.edu/bowdoin-prizes) recipient. She is also a JD candidate at Columbia Law School where she specializes in constitutional law.

Her first book project is titled *The Secret-Seekers: Renaissance Writers and the Birth of Code*.





 

##  Publications 

 



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### Forthcoming

V.M. Braganza. “[Romance and Race](/publications/romance-and-race)”. In The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, edited by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C.E. Ross. Oxford: Oxford University Press



 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Romance and Race](/publications/romance-and-race)”. In The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, edited by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke, and Sarah C.E. Ross. Oxford: Oxford University Press



 

 

 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Canonicity and the First Folio](/publications/canonicity-and-first-folio)”. Edited by Claire Bourne. Shakespeare Quarterly



 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Canonicity and the First Folio](/publications/canonicity-and-first-folio)”. Edited by Claire Bourne. Shakespeare Quarterly



 

 

 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Milton’s Shakespearean Cloak and the Art of Readership in ’L’Allegro’ ’Il Penseroso’](/publications/miltons-shakespearean-cloak-and-art-readership-lallegroil-penseroso)”. Edited by Stephen Dobranski. Milton Studies



 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Milton’s Shakespearean Cloak and the Art of Readership in ’L’Allegro’ ’Il Penseroso’](/publications/miltons-shakespearean-cloak-and-art-readership-lallegroil-penseroso)”. Edited by Stephen Dobranski. Milton Studies



 

 

 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Binders and Bindings](/publications/binders-and-bindings)”. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Helen Smith, Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, Patricia Pender, and Rosalind Smith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan



 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Binders and Bindings](/publications/binders-and-bindings)”. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Helen Smith, Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull, Patricia Pender, and Rosalind Smith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan



 

 

 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Gender](/publications/gender)”. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Danielle Clarke, Patricia Pender, and Rosalind Smith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan



 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[Gender](/publications/gender)”. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Early Modern Women’s Writing, edited by Danielle Clarke, Patricia Pender, and Rosalind Smith. New York: Palgrave Macmillan



 

 

 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[The Pressure Dance of Memory in Sarah Polley’s Run Towards the Danger](/publications/pressure-dance-memory-sarah-polleys-run-towards-danger)”



 

 

V.M. Braganza. “[The Pressure Dance of Memory in Sarah Polley’s Run Towards the Danger](/publications/pressure-dance-memory-sarah-polleys-run-towards-danger)”



 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

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