Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages Raised Faculty Building
University of Cambridge
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Cambridge
CB3 9DA
United Kingdom
Dr Phillips-Robins (PhD Cambridge 2017) specialises in medieval Italian literature and culture with particular interests in Dante, theology and religious practices, music, women’s writing and history, and visual cultures.
- Dante studies
- Medieval theology and religious practices
- Liturgy
- Medieval women religious
- Music and literature
- Medieval visual cultures
- Text-image relations
- Early Italian lyric poetry
- History of emotions
Books
Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante’s Commedia, William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021)
Articles
‘Mediating Christ in Paradiso and in MS Vat.lat.4776’, Italian Studies, 77 (2022), 157-66
‘Theology through Images: Viewing and Devotion in the Yates Thompson Commedia’, Dante Studies, 138 (2020), 128-51
‘Singing for Dante in Purgatorio 30-31’, Bibliotheca Dantesca, 1 (2018), 127-45
‘‘Cantavan tutti insieme ad una voce’: Singing and Community in the Commedia’, Italian Studies, 71 (2016), 4-20
Book chapters
‘Vita nova XXVIII’, in Dante’s Vita Nova: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Zygmunt G. Barański and Heather Webb (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), pp. 262-68
‘Voicing lament: Poet and reader as mourners in Dante’s Commedia’, in Dwelling on Grief: Narratives of Mourning Across Time and Forms, ed. by Simona Corso, Florian Mussgnug and Jennifer Rushworth (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022), pp. 35-46
