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Overview of Teaching and Research Areas

Subject area

Medieval and early modern studies

Dr Helena Phillips-Robins (Dante, theology and religious practices, music, women's writing and history, and visual cultures) Renaissance and Early Modern studies

Dr Abigail Brundin (literature, culture, religion)

Professor. Helena Sanson (literature, women's history and women's writing)

 

Modern studies

Professor Robert Gordon (Literature, cultural and intellectual history, Italian cinema)

Professor JD Rhodes (Italian cinema)

Professor Helena Sanson (History of linguistic thought, Literature, women's history and women's writing, translation)

 

Language and Linguistics

Professor Helena Sanson (History of linguistic thought, women in the history of linguistics)

Current members of the Department

Name (and College) Main area(s) Contact details

Dr Abigail Brundin

​(St Catharine's)

Renaissance and early modern literature and culture asb17@cam.ac.uk

Professor Robert Gordon

20th-century Italian literature, cinema and cultural history

rcsg1@cam.ac.uk

Professor JD Rhodes

(Corpus Christi)

Italian cinema

jdr42@cam.ac.uk

Professor Helena Sanson

(Clare)

History of linguistic thought, women in the history of linguistics, women's writing and women's history, conduct literature, history of translation. Period: Renaissance to twentieth century

hls37@cam.ac.uk

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