Dr Helena Phillips-Robins
- Teaching Associate in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture
Contact
Location
- Selwyn College, Grange Road, CB3 9DQ
About
Dr Phillips-Robins (PhD Cambridge 2017) specialises in medieval Italian literature and culture with particular interests in Dante, theology and religious practices, music, women’s writing and history, and visual cultures.
Research
Research interests:
- Dante studies
- Medieval theology and religious practices
- Liturgy
- Medieval women religious
- Music and literature
- Medieval visual cultures
- Text-image relations
- Early Italian lyric poetry
- History of emotions
Published works:
Books
Liturgical Song and Practice in Dante’s Commedia, William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021)
Articles
‘Mediating Christ in Paradiso and in MS Vat.lat.4776’, Italian Studies, 77 (2022), 157-66
‘Theology through Images: Viewing and Devotion in the Yates Thompson Commedia’, Dante Studies, 138 (2020), 128-51
‘Singing for Dante in Purgatorio 30-31’, Bibliotheca Dantesca, 1 (2018), 127-45
‘‘Cantavan tutti insieme ad una voce’: Singing and Community in the Commedia’, Italian Studies, 71 (2016), 4-20
Book chapters
‘Vita nova XXVIII’, in Dante’s Vita Nova: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Zygmunt G. Barański and Heather Webb (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2023), pp. 262-68
‘Voicing lament: Poet and reader as mourners in Dante’s Commedia’, in Dwelling on Grief: Narratives of Mourning Across Time and Forms, ed. by Simona Corso, Florian Mussgnug and Jennifer Rushworth (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022), pp. 35-46
Teaching and supervision
Supervisor of:
Thomas Godfrey
Course contact for:
IT7: Dante and the culture of his age