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Students' Interview with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

What does it mean to write, publish and read across nations? To what extent do postcolonial narratives destabilise national histories? What are the main challenges in translating one’s own works between different languages, including the language of the colonizer? After exploring her production in prose and poetry as part...

Two from MMLL Italian win MHRA research fellowships

We are happy to share the news that Dr Elena Sottilotta and Dr Michele Maiolani have won research scholarships with the Modern Humanities Research Association. Elena is currently an AHRC Postdoctoral Fellow . Her project is Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (...

Presentation of Helena Sanson’s new book: Annibale Guasco, Ragionamento a Donna Lavinia sua figliuola della maniera del governarsi ella in corte (1586). Con una scelta di lettere (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022, 288 pp.).

Brian Richardson presents Helena Sanson’s new book: Annibale Guasco, Ragionamento a Donna Lavinia sua figliuola della maniera del governarsi ella in corte (1586) . Con una scelta di lettere (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022, 288 pp.), ed. by Helena Sanson.

'Narratives of the Nineteenth Century: New Directions', a cross-faculty book launch & research workshop

We are happy to share the upcoming research workshop event featuring Prof Helena Sanson on Thursday 27 April, 12:45-4 pm, at Gonville & Caius College, Senior Parlour.

Talk with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

Come and join us to talk with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel on March 8th! Everyone is invited to attend! Event details are as follows: When: March 8th, 2:00pm Where: Lucia Windsor Room, Newnham College What: 'Writing Across Nations' - Roundtable Disscussants: Dr Marco Medugno (Newcastle) and Prof. Jennifer Burns (Warwick) (Event...

Book talk: Jessica Maratsos in conversation with Stuart Lingo presents her new book: Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy

Congratulations to Jessica Maratsos on her new book 'Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in the Renaissance Italy'. Please join Jessica Maratsos and the UMB Catherine Frisone Scott Center for its first event of the spring semester, on Zoom. On 10th February 2023, from 20:00-22:00 (GMT) (15:00 - 17:00 EST) Jessica Maratsos...

Italian Research Seminars.

Come join us for our Italian Research Seminars! Details are listed below. 25th January, St Johns College Dr Gianmarco Mancosu (University of Calgary) 'Exotic Fascism: Imperial Propaganda in between Film, Literature and Ethnography' 16 February, Selwyn College Professor Francesca Southerden (University of Oxford) ''Cosi o...

Image: Robert Gordon's book 'Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century'

Professor Robert Gordon's new book: Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long Twentieth Century

Professor Robert Gordon’s new book, Modern Luck: Narratives of Fortune in the Long 20th Century has just appeared with UCL Press. The book is a wide-ranging study of the workings of luck in modern storytelling, between literature and film.

Women and Translation in the Italian Tradition - H Sanson

Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: Women and Translation in the Italian Tradition (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2022, 449 pp.)

The Italian Section is delighted to announce the publication of a new edited volume by Professor Helena Sanson, Women and Translation in the Italian Tradition (Paris, Classiques Garnier, 2022, 449 pp.).

Interview with Dacia Maraini

To celebrate the 22nd 'Week of the Italian Language in the World' (17-23 October) - focusing this year on 'Italian and the Youth' - the Italian Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at Cambridge is delighted to share the undergraduate students' video interview with celebrated writer Dacia Maraini.

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Selwyn Sykes Cambridge Masters Studentship in Italian Studies

20 November 2024

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

A Series of International Events on 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'

24 October 2024

We are delighted to announce a series of academic and public engagement initiatives aimed at celebrating the legacy of Carlo Collodi’s literary masterpiece The Adventures of Pinocchio in contemporary culture, co-organized by Murray Edwards College Fellow Elena Sottilotta (Italian section, MMLL Faculty) with Pablo a Marca (...

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Events

Transcultural Things in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania

Thursday, 30 January 2025 - 5:30pm
Translating Postcoloniality in Post-Soviet Literature and Culture

Thursday, 13 February 2025 - 5:30pm
Birchbark Literacy in the Graphosphere of Medieval Novgorod

Thursday, 27 February 2025 - 5:30pm
From Thessaloniki to Chernihiv or, Varieties and Vagaries of the Ukrainian Vulgate

Thursday, 13 March 2025 - 5:30pm
Faculty Open Day

Friday, 21 March 2025 - 9:30am

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Students' Interview with Shirin Ramzanali Fazel

Two from MMLL Italian win MHRA research fellowships

Presentation of Helena Sanson’s new book: Annibale Guasco, Ragionamento a Donna Lavinia sua figliuola della maniera del governarsi ella in corte (1586). Con una scelta di lettere (Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022, 288 pp.).