Early life
Tomaselli was born on 28 May 1957 at Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland, daughter of Maximilian Karl Tomaselli (formerly of Salzburg) by his wife Josiane ''née'' Preschez. Sylvana belongs to the Tomaselli, Tomaselli family, an old and noble family that has risen to prominent positions in both Italy and Austria; she belongs to the Austrian branch of this family. She was educated in Canada and England.Marriages and family
She married firstly, on 25 December 1977 at Vancouver, John Paul Jones, son of Captain (land), Captain Geoffrey Jones of Barbados, but they divorced in 1981 without children. She married secondly, on 9 January 1988 at Leith in Scotland, George Windsor, Earl of St Andrews, George, Earl of St Andrews, and they have three children: * Edward Windsor, Lord Downpatrick, Edward Edmund Maximilian George Windsor, Lord Downpatrick (born 2 December 1988 at St Mary's Hospital, London, St Mary's Hospital in London) * Lady Marina Windsor, Lady Marina Charlotte Alexandra Katharine Helen Windsor (born 30 September 1992 at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge) * Lady Amelia Windsor, Lady Amelia Sophia Theodora Mary Margaret Windsor (born 24 August 1995 at the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge) Lady St Andrews' Catholicism no longer precludes her husband's succession the throne. Two of her children, Edward (2003) and Marina (2008), were received into the Roman Catholic Church, thereby surrendering their places in the Succession to the British throne, line of succession to the Commonwealth realm#The Crown in the Commonwealth realms, thrones of the Commonwealth realms, although Lord and Lady St Andrews' younger daughter, Amelia, is still in remainder to the United Kingdom, British Crown.Academic career
Tomaselli, who has received Bachelor of Arts, BA (UBC), Master of Arts, MA (York, Ontario) and MA (Cantab) degrees, became a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge in 2004. She specialises in French and British political theory in the 18th century, especially the history of womanhood, and has written about John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, Mary Wollstonecraft and John Stuart Mill. She is the translator of Book II of the Seminars of Jacques Lacan, Seminar of Jacques Lacan, ''The Ego in Freud's Theory and in the Technique of Psychoanalysis''. She teaches the three History of Political Theory Papers and is an affiliated Lecturer of the Faculty (academic staff), Faculties of History as well as of Social and Political Sciences. She is a founding member of the European Centre for the Philosophy of Gender, Siegen, Germany, and is currently Director of Studies in Tripos, History and Social & Political Sciences at St John's College, Cambridge, St John's College in the University of Cambridge, and a tutor for postgraduates. Tomaselli has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tomaselli, Sylvana 1957 births Living people 20th-century French women writers Alumni of Newnham College, Cambridge British courtesy countesses, Saint Andrews British women historians Canadian people of Austrian descent Canadian people of French descent Canadian people of Italian descent Canadian Roman Catholics Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of the Royal Historical Society House of Windsor, Sylvana Mary Wollstonecraft scholars People from Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador Translators of Jacques Lacan Tomaselli family University of British Columbia alumni York University alumni