Position(s):
Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College
Affiliated Lecturer
Department/Section:
Italian
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Location:
Trinity College Trinity Street Cambridge CB2 1TQ United Kingdom
About:
Lachlan Hughes is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College and an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. He graduated with a DPhil from Oxford (2023) and held teaching positions at Oxford and Durham before arriving in Cambridge.
His current projects include a book on Dante’s lyric poetry, an interdisciplinary monograph on the blind poet-composer Francesco degli Organi (a.k.a. ‘Landini’), and a co-edited volume on the Latin works of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pius II).
Research interests:
- Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
- Sound studies
- Lyric theory
- Performance/intermediality
- Manuscript studies
- Trecento polyphony
Published works:
- ‘Dante’s Arethusa and the Art of Transition’, Modern Language Review, 118 (2023), 482–95
- Vita nova XV [8]’, in Dante’s ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Zygmunt G. Barański and Heather Webb (Notre Dame University Press, 2023)
- ‘“Le note di questa comedìa”: Music and Metapoesis in Inferno 16’, Annali d’Italianistica, 39 (2021), 229–45
- Review of George Corbett, Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Contexts (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020), in Modern Language Review, 116 (2021), 505–07
- ‘Italy at Work: Representations of Labour in Italian Culture’, Notes in Italian Studies, 1 (2021), 5–8 [co-authored with Bianca Rita Cataldi and Claudia Dellacasa]
