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PhD and MPhil

Italian

 

Current PhD Students in Italian

Name

College

Research Topic

Supervisor

Charlotte Alton

Selwyn

Affective Contagions and Communities in Boccaccio’s Decameron

Dr Heather Webb

Adelaide Brooks Clare Italiano, brava lingua?: The Complex Role of Italian in the Recounting of the Holocaust Prof Robert Gordon

Sara Cardullo

St John's

Morphosyntactic Microvariation in the Aeolian Dialects

Prof Adam Ledgeway

Samuel Fitzgibbon Corpus Christi Writing Home: Letters to and from Florentine Exiles (1433-1494) Research Summary 1 Prof Virginia Cox

Tommaso Forni

Selwyn

"Polyanthea" or Polyantheas: The hidden foundation of the European Renaissance

Prof Abigail Brundin

Ruth Murphy St John's Conceptualising empathy as an ethical and literary problem post-Holocaust Prof Robert Gordon
Orsolya Petocz Selwyn Between Queer Invisibility and Hypervisibility - Italian and Francophone Text and Image Prof Emma Wilson and Prof Robert Gordon
George Rayson Selwyn Singularities in harmony: the rhyming hapax legomena in Dante's Commedia Dr Heather Webb
Rebecca Reilly Selwyn Accessing the Inaccessible Other: Desire and ‘Interpersonal Selfhoods’ across Generic and Gendered Boundaries in Late Medieval Italian Literature Dr Heather Webb
Onkar Singh Selwyn Diachronic and Synchronic Microvariation in Differential Object Marking (DOM) in ItaloRomance and beyond Prof Adam Ledgeway
Aurora Sturli St Edmund’s Female Writers at the Margins of Italian Literature and Culture Prof Helena Sanson
Jonathan Wiles Selwyn "Vegna Medusa": Dante's Poetics of Absence in and Around the 'Commedia' Dr Heather Webb

 

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