Hester Schadee has recently completed a D.Phil. in History at Oxford University, where she also earned a B.A. in Ancient and Modern History and an M.Phil. in Greek and Roman History. Her interdisciplinary dissertation, "Julius Caesar in the Early Italian Renaissance", examines the reception of Caesar in humanist prose, vernacular poetry, the visual arts and spectacle. She has won many prizes, awards and scholarships, including the Senior Paget Toynbee Prize (2007) for Dante studies. Schadee's articles on Caesar have been published in major journals of Renaissance and Classical studies. She has served as Tutor in Early Modern History and as a Teaching Assistant for specialist classes on Renaissance Art and Culture, both at Oxford University, as well as tutoring at the Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Oxford. She has presented papers at several international conferences, and co-founded a seminar series on Early Modern topics. At Princeton Schadee will coordinate and participate in a faculty team teaching a year-long course in Humanistic Studies that offers interdisciplinary approaches to the intellectual and cultural history of Europe. Her research will focus on the revision of her dissertation into a book, and a new project in which she will examine the exploitation of figures drawn from history, legend and myth as exemplars in Renaissance Italy.