| Name | College | Thesis title | Conferral Year | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Selwyn |
Affective Contagions and Communities in Boccaccio’s Decameron | 2023 | Prof Heather Webb | |
| Luigi Andriani | The morpho-syntax of Barese | 2018 | Prof Adam Ledgeway | |
|
St John's |
Morphosyntactic Microvariation in the Aeolian Dialects |
2025 | Prof Adam Ledgeway | |
| Valentina Colasanti | Comparative morpho-syntax of the (Italo-)Romance varieties | 2019 | Prof Adam Ledgeway | |
| Sara Delmedico | Women and their legal status in nineteenth-century Italy | 2019 | Prof Helena Sanson | |
| Manuela Di Franco | American culture and the development of mass press in Fascist Italy | 2019 | Prof Robert Gordon | |
|
Selwyn |
"Polyanthea" or Polyantheas: The hidden foundation of the European Renaissance |
Prof Abigail Brundin | ||
| Quanto natura a sentir ti dispuose’: Dante and the Senses of Personhood | 2022 | Prof Heather Webb | ||
| Serena Laiena | Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654) on Stage: Between Language and Intertextuality | 2022 | Prof Helena Sanson | |
| Nicole Maniero | 'The Role of the Anthropological Method in Italian Literature (1970-1985): Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Gianni Celati | 2022 | Prof Robert Gordon | |
| Valentina Mele | Guido Cavalcanti, Rime. A study on textual subjectivity. | 2020 | Prof Heather Webb | |
| Nicolò Morelli | Animal imagery in Petrarch’s poetry and in that of his models | 2019 | Prof Heather Webb | |
| Ruth Murphy | St John's | Conceptualising empathy as an ethical and literary problem post-Holocaust | 2025 | Prof Robert Gordon |
| Amelia Papworth | The lyric poetry of Laura Terracina | 2019 | Prof Abigail Brundin | |
| Ryan Pepin | Dante, Liturgy, Lyric, and Performance | 2020 | Prof Heather Webb | |
| Helena Phillips-Robins | Liturgical Song in Dante's Commedia | 2017 | Prof Heather Webb | |
| Katherine Powlesland | Dante's "Commedia": towards Interactivity in 'Paradiso', with particular reference to Dante with digital narrative theory | 2019 | Prof Heather Webb | |
| George Rayson | Selwyn | Singularities in harmony: the rhyming hapax legomena in Dante's Commedia | Prof Heather Webb | |
| Maria Olimpia Squillaci | Greek and Romance language contact in Southern Italy | 2017 | Prof Adam Ledgeway | |
| Eleonora Serra | Linguistic prestige in early modern Italy | 2020 | Prof Helena Sanson | |
| Cameron Taylor | Complementation in the Dialects of Southern Italy | 2018 | Prof Adam Ledgeway | |
| Katherine Tycz | The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions | 2018 | Prof Abigail Brundin | |
| Anna Wagner | Margherita Costa: A 'Virtuosa' on the Literary Stage of the Seicento | 2021 | Prof Helena Sanson | |
|
Selwyn |
Uncovering classical mythology in Dante's Earthly Paradise |
2023 |
Dr Heather Webb | |
|
Caius |
16th October 1943: literature, history and memory |
2021 |
Prof Robert Gordon | |
|
Selwyn |
'The Role of the Anthropological Method in Italian Literature (1970-1985): Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Gianni Celati |
2023 |
Prof Robert Gordon | |
|
St Catharine's |
The genre of Rime in morte in Renaissance women’s lyric poetry: Vittoria Colonna, |
2023 |
Prof Abigail Brundin | |
| Luigi Pinton | Clare | Witnessing the lives of others: Antonio Tabucchi's second-hand stories | 2023 | Dr Pierpaolo Antonello |
| Onkar Singh | Selwyn | Diachronic and Synchronic Microvariation in Differential Object Marking (DOM) in ItaloRomance and beyond | 2024 | Prof Adam Ledgeway |
| Frey Kalus | St Catharine's | Dante and the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke | Prof Heather Webb | |
| Orsolya Petocz | Selwyn | Between Queer Invisibility and Hypervisibility - Italian and Francophone Text and Image | 2024 | Prof Emma Wilson and Prof Robert Gordon |
|
St Catharine's |
Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (1870-1920) |
2022 | Prof Helena Sanson | |
| Jonathan Wiles | Selwyn | "Vegna Medusa": Dante's Poetics of Absence in and Around the 'Commedia' | 2025 | Prof Heather Webb |
For current PhD students, please see here.
