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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

Latest News

Italian Research Seminars - Easter Term 2025

2 May 2025

We are pleased to share with you the Easter Term card of Italian Research Events. The first two events will take place on Thursday 8 May, when we'll have the pleasure of having Gabriella Ghermandi with us. We look forward to seeing you then. 8 May, 2-3pm, Chadwick Room, Selwyn College Archives, Resistance, Decolonisation...

Two events with Ethio-Italian writer, musician and performer Gabriella Ghermandi

30 April 2025

We are glad to welcome Gabriella Ghermandi, Ethio-Italian writer, performer and musician for two events on Thursday 8 May both taking place at Selwyn College.

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.

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