Once again the Department of Slavonic Studies is offering free open classes in the Polish and Ukrainian languages in the coming academic year to all members of the University. Click here for more details.
Once again the Department of Slavonic Studies is offering free open classes in the Polish and Ukrainian languages in the coming academic year to all members of the University. Click here for more details.
What would it take to fake a sonnet by Louise Labé?
2 July 2025
Timothy Chesters weighs in on the authorship controversy over France’s most famous female Renaissance poet, Louise Labé (c.1520-1564).Twenty years ago a prominent French critic, Mireille Huchon, caused uproar by alleging that Olivier de Magny, a male poet traditionally believed to have been Labé’s lover, forged her poems...
Seekers of Wonder: Women Writing Folk and Fairy Tales in Nineteenth-Century Italy and Ireland
15 June 2025
With Seekers of Wonder, Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women’s manifold roles in the collection of Italian and Irish folklore and fairy tales between 1870 and 1920. Sottilotta views the often-overlooked work of these women from an interdisciplinary perspective, considering both the politics and...
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