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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

'Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550' Conference, 19-20 September 2025

24 July 2025

Literary Devotions: Italy, c. 1200–1550 Trinity College, Cambridge, 19–20 September 2025 Generously supported by the Cambridge Intesa Sanpaolo Fund, the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, and the Society for Italian Studies. The conference will be livestreamed via Zoom; to register, please click here . In-person...

Teenage Diaries Reveal Private Lives Under Stalin’s Shadow

21 July 2025

Love, Fear, and Resistance: Teenage Diaries from Stalin’s Russia Unearthed by Cambridge Researcher What did it mean to be young in one of the most repressive regimes of the 20th century? A groundbreaking new study by Dr Ekaterina Zadirko (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, University of Cambridge)...

PhD alumnus Javier Moreno-Rivero awarded prestigious international prize for thesis in Translation Studies

11 July 2025

PhD alumnus Javier Moreno-Rivero awarded prestigious international prize for thesis in Translation Studies Dr Javier Moreno-Rivero, who completed his PhD in Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in 2023 under the supervision of Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett , has been awarded the...

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