The Prop , by Prof JD Rhodes (MMLL, University of Cambridge) and Dr Elena Gorfinkel (Film Studies, King’s College London), was published by Fordham Press on 4 March. The Financial Times spoke to Prof Rhodes in February about Joanna Hogg’s film Autobiografia di una Borsetta , which was inspired by Rhodes’ and Gorfinkel’s...

Selwyn College will offer two studentships for UK MPhil students in Italian Studies for entry in October 2025.

Ruth Murphy is a PhD candidate in Italian at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Literature, University of Cambridge. Her most recent article, ‘“Let me look again”: The Moral Philosophy and Literature Debate at 40’ , was recently published in New Literary History (Vol. 55 No. 1). Here, Murphy explains the...

'Escape, Community, Resistance, Memory. Italian Populations and Allied Prisoners of War’. We are pleased to announce a new research project and grant launched in the Italian Section, to run until 2027. Sponsored by the Monte San Martino Trust, which commemorates Italian civilians and communities who helped Allied prisoners...