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Research in the Italian section

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The Italian Section at Cambridge maintains a strong research tradition across a wide range of specialisms. All the permanent members of staff in the department are actively engaged in research covering Dante, medieval literature and culture, Renaissance and modern periods, cinema, linguistics and dialectology. The Department benefits from the outstanding research facilities and the dynamic, interdisciplinary research culture within the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge Italian Research Network (CIRN)

Overview of Teaching and Research areas of Italian Staff

Research students

Research events 2003-2017

Book series and Journals

Latest News

Book publication: 'Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland'

14 April 2025

Dr Elena Sottilotta 's book, Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland, has just been published by Princeton University Press.

CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium: Labour

12 March 2025

We warmly invite you to attend the upcoming CIRN Interdisciplinary Annual Symposium on 'Labour', taking place on Monday 24 March, from 10:45am to 5pm, in Room SG1, Alison Richard Building. Programme poster 10:45-11am: Welcome 11am-12:30pm Panel 1: Reproduction, Refusal, Revolution Ilaria Favretto Striking Women: Gender...

Prof JD Rhodes on props and property

11 March 2025

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...

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