skip to content

Italian

Italian

 

Current News and Events

Read more at: The Robinson College Sykes Prize 2020
SP

The Robinson College Sykes Prize 2020

The Robinson College Sykes Prize has been launched for 2020. The winning prize is £1000, with runners-up awards of £500 and £250 also available. More information can be found here: https://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/college-life/arts-literature-and-theology/sykes-prize-2020 All current students are welcome to enter, hopefully...


Read more at: Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) winner of the 2020 Polly Stewart Award 2020
EES

Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) winner of the 2020 Polly Stewart Award 2020

We are delighted to congratulate Elena Sottilotta (PhD candidate, Italian) for winning the 2020 Polly Stewart Award, for her research on women folklorists of Italy and Ireland. The award is given by the Women's Section of the American Folklore Society to support young scholars in the field (further details at: https://www...


Read more at: Professor Abigail Brundin wins honorable mention for the SRS 2020 Book Prize
Photo of Abigail Bundin

Professor Abigail Brundin wins honorable mention for the SRS 2020 Book Prize

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Abigail Brundin was given an honourable mention for her jointly authored book The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy (Oxford University Press, 2018) by the Society for Renaissance Studies 2020 book prize. The judges received over forty books this year and the standard was extremely...


Read more at: Pembroke College opens post for College Lecturer in Modern & Medieval Languages

Pembroke College opens post for College Lecturer in Modern & Medieval Languages

Pembroke College has just opened applications for the 5 year post of College Lecturer in Modern and Medieval Languages, specializing in Italian.


Read more at: Dr Eleonora Serra awarded Premio Giovanni Nencioni 2020
Eleonora Serra

Dr Eleonora Serra awarded Premio Giovanni Nencioni 2020

We are delighted to congratulate Eleonora Serra (PhD, Italian) on the award of the 2020 Premio Giovanni Nencioni . This prize is awarded by Italy’s most prestigious cultural academy, the Accademia della Crusca , for the best doctoral thesis in Italian linguistics presented at a University outside Italy. ( https://...


Read more at: Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies
RFB

Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies

Jobs | Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics Academic Staff Vacancies University Lecturer in Modern Iberian Literary and Cultural Studies. The Spanish and Portuguese Section of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge, is seeking to appoint a University...


Read more at: Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression
“Verso il faro” 2017, Asinara, by Marco Delogu

Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression

We are happy to announce a call for papers for the upcoming conference, "Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression", set for 27 September - 01 October 2021.


Read more at: Karen Pinkus
Pinkus1

Karen Pinkus

We are delighted to announce that Professor Karen Pinkus (Cornell) will be in Cambridge for Easter Term 2019, followed by a second visit in Lent and Easter Terms 2020, as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor . Professor Pinkus will be hosted by MML/Italian and by CRASSH.


Read more at: Research Events - Lent Term 2019
(c) The University of Cambridge

Research Events - Lent Term 2019

Research Events in Italian Studies The Italian Section are pleased to present the Lent Term 2019 programme of events which can be found here .


Read more at: Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition (7-8 November 2018)
(c) The University of Cambridge

Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition (7-8 November 2018)

Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition 7-8 November 2018 Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College, Cambridge A conference entitled Women, Language(s) and Translation in the Italian Tradition will take place on 7-8 November, in the Riley Auditorium, Gillespie Centre, Clare College, Cambridge...


Related links

Latest News

2025 ‘Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Professor’, Prof Luisa Passerini

4 July 2025

Luisa Passerini is Professor Emerita at the European University Institute, Florence. Her research and writing have centred on social change and memory in its oral, written and visual forms, with a particular focus on: African liberation movements; worker, student and women’s movements; migrant mobility to and through...

Complete University Guide 2026 (Italian)

4 July 2025

The Italian Section is delighted to report that Italian at Cambridge, along with several other MMLL language areas, was ranked top in the UK in the recently published Complete University Guide 2026.

Italian Research Seminars - Easter Term 2025

2 May 2025

We are pleased to share with you the Easter Term card of Italian Research Events. The first two events will take place on Thursday 8 May, when we'll have the pleasure of having Gabriella Ghermandi with us. We look forward to seeing you then. 8 May, 2-3pm, Chadwick Room, Selwyn College Archives, Resistance, Decolonisation...

Events

Let's be friends