Position(s):
Research Fellow, Selwyn College
Department/Section:
Italian
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages and Linguistics
Contact details:
Telephone number:
(+44) (0)1223 335 835
Email address:
College:
Location:
Selwyn College
Grange Road
CB3 9DQ
About:
Dr Phillips-Robins (PhD Cambridge 2017) specialises in medieval Italian literature and culture with a particular interest in Dante, theology and religious practices, and visual cultures.
Research interests:
- Dante studies
- Medieval theology and religious practices
- Liturgy
- Medieval visual cultures
- Text-image relations
- Early Italian lyric poetry
- Music and Literature
- History of emotions
- Religion and Literature
Published works:
‘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
'Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante’s Commedia' (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021, forthcoming).
