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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Dr Scott Annett

Scott Annett
Position(s): 
Affiliated lecturer (Italian Department)
Affiliated lecturer (Faculty of Divinity)
College Lecturer, Robinson College
Department/Section: 
Italian
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
Contact details: 
Telephone number: 
+44 (0)1223 335 000 (Main Faculty number)
Location: 

Robinson College
Grange Road
Cambridge
CB3 9AN
UK

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 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