Position(s):
Research Fellow, Selwyn College
Department/Section:
Italian
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
Contact details:
Telephone number:
(+44) (0)1223 335 835
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College:
Location:
Selwyn College
Grange Road
CB3 9DQ
United Kingdom
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:
- ‘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, forthcoming), pp. 35-46
- 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)
- ‘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
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