Department of Italian
Overview of Teaching and Research Areas of Italian Staff
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Medieval literature, especially Dante and medieval poetics
Dr Kenneth Clarke (Chaucer's Italian sources, 14th-century manuscript studies)Dr George Corbett (Dante, Medieval philosophy)
Dr Heather Webb (Dante, early Italian lyric poetry, Boccaccio)
Professor Zyg Baranski, Emeritus Professor (Dante, Medieval literature and poetics)
Professor Robin Kirkpatrick, Emeritus Professor (Dante, Medieval literature and poetics)
The Renaissance, including Literature, art, and female history and the Questione della lingua
Dr Abigail Brundin (Literature and art)Dr Helena Sanson (Questione della lingua, literature, women's history)
Professor Robin Kirkpatrick, Emeritus Professor (Literature and Art)
The Early Modern Period, especially the literature of the 18th century
Dr Julie Dashwood (18th - 20th century Italian theatre, 19th and 20th century narrative)Dr Helena Sanson (Questione della lingua, Literature, women's history, translation)
The Modern Period, including literature, cultural and intellectual history, Italian cinema, and philosophy
Dr Pierpaolo Antonello (Literature, cultural and intellectual history, philosophy)Professor Robert Gordon (Literature, cultural and intellectual history, Italian cinema)
Dr Helena Sanson (Questione della lingua, 19th century women writers, women's history)
Professor Laura Lepschy, Visiting Professor (late 19th and early 20th century literature)
Language and Linguistics, including dialectology, historical linguistics, syntactic theory, comparative Romance linguistics and the Questione della lingua
Dr Gabriele Natali (Senior Language Teaching Officer)Dr Adam Ledgeway (Dialectology, historical linguistics, syntactic theory, comparative Romance linguistics)
Dr Alessandra Lombardi (Dialectology and historical linguistics)
Ms Claudia Peverini (Dialectology and historical linguistics)
Dr Helena Sanson (Questione della lingua)
Professor Giulio Lepschy, Visiting Professor (Dialectology, historical linguistics)
Professor Laura Lepschy, Visiting Professor (Questione della lingua, translation)
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Dr Pierpaolo Antonello |
20th-century Italian writing and intellectual history; Futurism and the avant-garde; Literature and Science; Calvin, Eco; Postmodern Italian literature; French theory and epistemology. |
Professor Zyg Baranski, Emeritus Professor |
Dante and medieval poetics; Modern Italian literature, film and culture |
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Dr Abigail Brundin |
16th-century literature and culture; Concepts of the sacred in contemporary fiction |
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Dr Kenneth Clarke |
Chaucer and his Italian sources, especially the commentary tradition in fourteenth- century Italy. Also fourteenth-century manuscript studies, both Italian and English. |
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Dr George Corbett |
Dante and medieval philosophy. Classical and medieval Latin literature. Medieval and Renaissance literature in English and Italian. |
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Dr Julie Dashwood |
Italian theatre from the 18th to the 20th centuries, especially the works of Goldoni and Pirandello; 19th and 20th-century Italian narrative |
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Professor Robert Gordon |
20th-century Italian literature, cinema and cultural history |
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Professor Robin Kirkpatrick, Emeritus Professor |
Dante and the Renaissance; The relationship between Italian and English literature from 1300-1600 as well as in the Modern period |
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Dr Adam Ledgeway |
Generative syntax, especially Minimalism; Morphosyntactic change; The history and structure of the Romance languages, in particular Italian and the dialects of Italy |
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Professor Giulio Lepschy, Visiting Professor |
Italian linguistics and dialectology, with particular reference to the history of linguistics |
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Professor Laura Lepschy, Visiting Professor |
Late 19th and early 20th century literature, particularly Verga, Svevo and Pirandello; questions of language and of translation, particularly self-translation (Invernizio, Vivanti, Pirandello) |
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Dr Alessandra Lombardi |
Morphosyntax; Italian dialectology; Historical linguistics |
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Dr Gabriele Natali |
Senior Language Teaching Officer |
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Ms Claudia Peverini |
Morphosyntax; Italian dialectology; Historical linguistics |
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Dr Helena Sanson |
16th-century literature and culture, especially the Questione della lingua; The history of women from the middle ages to the present; 18th, 19th and 20th-century Italian literature |
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Dr Heather Webb |
Medieval literature and culture, especially Dante, early Italian lyric poetry, Boccaccio, models of female piety (especially Catherine of Siena & Dominican penitents), the history of concepts. |
