Department of Italian

Modern & Medieval Languages

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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Name (and College)

Main area(s)

Contact details

Dr Pierpaolo Antonello
(St John's)

20th-century Italian writing and intellectual history; Futurism and the avant-garde; Literature and Science; Calvin, Eco; Postmodern Italian literature; French theory and epistemology.

paa25@cam.ac.uk

Professor Zyg Baranski
(Murray Edwards)

Dante and medieval poetics; Modern Italian literature, film and culture

zgb20@cam.ac.uk

Dr Abigail Brundin
(St Catharine's)

16th-century literature and culture; Concepts of the sacred in contemporary fiction

asb17@cam.ac.uk

Dr Julie Dashwood
(Lucy Cavendish)

Italian theatre from the 18th to the 20th centuries, especially the works of Goldoni and Pirandello; 19th and 20th-century Italian narrative

jrd27@cam.ac.uk

Dr Robert Gordon
(Gonville & Caius )

20th-century Italian literature, cinema and cultural history

rcsg1@cam.ac.uk

Dr Nicola Jones
(Corpus Christi )

Medieval narrative and notions of authorship (particularly Boccaccio); 15th century literature and culture; Italians in the Near East.

nkj22@cam.ac.uk

Professor Robin Kirkpatrick
(Robinson)

Dante and the Renaissance; The relationship between Italian and English literature from 1300-1600 as well as in the Modern period

rk22@cam.ac.uk

Dr Adam Ledgeway
(Downing)

Generative syntax, especially Minimalism; Morphosyntactic change; The history and structure of the Romance languages, in particular Italian and the dialects of Italy

anl21@cam.ac.uk

Professor Giulio Lepschy
(Downing)

Italian linguistics and dialectology, with particular reference to the history of linguistics

ucljgil@ucl.ac.uk

Professor Laura Lepschy
(Murray Edwards)

Late 19th and early 20th century literature, particularly Verga, Svevo and Pirandello; questions of language and of translation, particularly self-translation (Invernizio, Vivanti, Pirandello)

ucljall@ucl.ac.uk

Dr Alessandra Lombardi
(affiliated to department)

Morphosyntax; Italian dialectology; Historical linguistics

al261@cam.ac.uk

Dr Katharine Mitchell
(Lucy Cavendish)

19th and 20th century narrative; women's history; women writers; performance and the public sphere in 19th and 20th century Italy

khm28@cam.ac.uk

Dr Gabriele Natali
(Girton)

Senior Language Teaching Officer

agn1000@cam.ac.uk

Dr Helena Sanson
(Clare)

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

hls37@cam.ac.uk

 

 

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