Dr Scott Annett

Robinson College
  • Affiliated lecturer (Italian Department)
  • Affiliated lecturer (Faculty of Divinity)
  • College Lecturer, Robinson College
Dr Scott Annett

Contact

Location

  • Robinson College, Grange Road, CB3 9AN

About

Dr Annett specialises in the writing of Dante and Samuel Beckett. He is currently working on the writing of Primo Levi, as well as the relationships between literature and theology.

Teaching interests: 

Lectures and supervisions for Italian, Divinity and English undergraduate papers. For Italian, these include ITA3 (Italian Texts and Contexts), ITB2 (Translation from Italian), and IT4 (Autobiography and Self-Representation in Italian Culture), as well as Year Abroad/Optional Dissertations on Italian topics. For the Divinity and English departments, I teach B13 (Religious themes in Literature) and Early Medieval Literature and Its Contexts (English, part 1 paper 2).

Research

Research interests: 

  • Samuel Beckett
  • Dante
  • Shakespeare
  • Primo Levi
  • Recent research projects: 
  • Samuel Beckett’s poetics
  • Primo Levi
  • Published works: 

‘Una veritade ascosa sotto bella menzogna’: Dante’s Eclogues and the World Beyond the Text. Volume 68, Issue 1 (March 2013), pp. 36-56

Teaching and supervision

Course contact for: 

ITB2 (Translation from Italian)