Department of Italian
Overview of Teaching and Research Areas of Italian Staff
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Medieval literature, especially Dante and medieval poetics
Professor Zyg Baranski (Dante, Medieval literature and poetics)Dr Nicola Jones (Medieval narrative, Boccaccio)
Professor Robin Kirkpatrick (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 Nicola Jones (Literature and art)
Professor Robin Kirkpatrick (Literature and Art)
Dr Helena Sanson (Questione della lingua, literature, women's history)
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 Zyg Baranski (Italian cinema)
Dr Robert Gordon (Literature, cultural and intellectual history, Italian cinema)
Professor Laura Lepschy (late 19th and early 20th century literature)
Dr Katharine Mitchell (Tragic opera, 19th century women writers, 19th and 20th century narrative, women's history)
Dr Helena Sanson (Questione della lingua, 19th century women writers, women's history)
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)
Professor Giulio Lepschy (Dialectology, historical linguistics)
Professor Laura Lepschy (Questione della lingua, translation)
Dr Alessandra Lombardi (Dialectology and historical linguistics)
Dr Helena Sanson (Questione della lingua)
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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 |
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 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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Dr Robert Gordon |
20th-century Italian literature, cinema and cultural history |
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Dr Nicola Jones |
Medieval narrative and notions of authorship (particularly Boccaccio); 15th century literature and culture; Italians in the Near East. |
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Professor Robin Kirkpatrick |
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 |
Italian linguistics and dialectology, with particular reference to the history of linguistics |
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Professor Laura Lepschy |
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 Katharine Mitchell |
19th and 20th century narrative; women's history; women writers; performance and the public sphere in 19th and 20th century Italy |
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Dr Gabriele Natali |
Senior Language Teaching Officer |
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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 |
