Department of Italian
Current PhD Students
- Ambrogio Camozzi Pistoja
Dante and the Tradition of Alexander the Great
ac654@cam.ac.uk - Giulia Cantarini
Comedy in British and Italian Film of the 1950s-1970s
gc413@cam.ac.uk - George Corbett
Dante's Moral Philosophy
gpc29@cam.ac.uk - Alessandra Diazzi
A psychoanalytic history of post second World War Italian literature
ad608@cam.ac.uk - Natalie Fullwood
Space and gender in commedia all'italiana, 1958-1970
nlf23@cam.ac.uk - Alberto Papapietro
The establishment of the tradition of lettere familiari from Petrarch to the Council of Trent
ap722@cam.ac.uk - Claudia Peverini-Benson
Subject-Verb (non)-Agreement: Syntactic Evidence from Marchigiano
cp306@cam.ac.uk - Bea Priest
Fecundity in Dante and the contemporary visual arts
bp257@cam.ac.uk - Alessia Ronchetti
Textual Spaces. Authority and the Place of Women in Boccaccio's and Chaucer's Works
ar330@cam.ac.uk - Norma Schifano
Verb-movement: a pan-Romance investigation
ns513@cam.ac.uk - Claudia Tardelli
Francesco da Buti's commentary on Dante's "Commedia". New critical edition
ct379@cam.ac.uk - Cameron Taylor
Complementation in the Dialects of Southern Italy
clt48@cam.ac.uk - Lucia Yandoli
Ecstasy and Blasphemy in Italian Cinema 1958-1974
lry21@cam.ac.uk
Recently-approved theses
- Anne Leone, approved January 2011
Dante and Blood
al419@cam.ac.uk - Catherine Baxter, approved January 2011
Language and Sex in Boccaccio's Decameron: Galeotto fu la metafora
cb430@cam.ac.uk - Fabrizio De Donno, approved October 2010
Italian Orientalism
fd231@cam.ac.uk - Heather Harrison, approved May 2010
Gender and Authorship in Boccacio's Decameron
hh282@cam.ac.uk - Katie Rees, approved February 2010
Women writers for the theatre in Renaissance Italy
kr249@cam.ac.uk - Ella Ide, approved February 2010
Masculinity in Italian Cinema, 1990-present
evi20@cam.ac.uk - Daniella Rossi, approved January 2010
Renaissance culture: writings of religious and secular women
djr51@cam.ac.uk - Katherine Wallington, approved January 2010
'...Memorie lasciateci da lui': Self-presentation, Influence and Legacy in the Autobiographical Writing of Carlo Goldoni and Lorenzo Da Ponte.
ktw22@cam.ac.uk - Eleonora Carinci, approved November 2009
'Lives of the Virgin Mary' by women writers in Post-Tridentine Italy.
ec328@cam.ac.uk - Alex Macmillan, approved January 2009
Dante's nineteenth-century reception
am535@cam.ac.uk - Laurence Hooper, approved January 2009
Languages of Exile in Dante and Pasolini
leh23@cam.ac.uk - Silvio Cruschina, approved January 2009
Discourse-related features and the syntax of peripheral positions. A comparative study of Sicilian and other Romance languages
sc481@cam.ac.uk - Edward M. Anderson, approved October 2008
Of Ariosto's legacy in seventeenth-century Italian musical drama
ema27@cam.ac.uk - Nicola Jones, approved July 2008
The Lure of the Short Courtly Tale in Later Medieval France and Italy
nkj22@cam.ac.uk - Meg Greenberg, approved May 2008
Futurism and Science: Refractions of Scientific Knowledge in the Work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
mg365@cam.ac.uk - Alan O'Leary, approved January 2008
Representations of Italian post-war terrorism
ao234@cam.ac.uk
