Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Sidgwick Avenue 澳门六合彩开奖记录 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
George completed his BA in English Literature at the University of York in 2018. It was there that, thanks to the department鈥檚 focus on 鈥榦ther鈥� literatures, that he first encountered the works of Dante. This then led to his finishing his ELAC MPhil here at 澳门六合彩开奖记录 in 2020 with the dissertation, 鈥楧ante鈥檚 hapax legomena: the language of winemaking in Dante鈥檚 Commedia鈥�. He intends to broaden this work in his PhD thesis, with the provisional title, 鈥楧ante鈥檚 rhyming hapax legomena in the Commedia鈥�.
- Supervisor on IT4: Autobiography and Self-Representation in Italian Culture
- C1: Translation out of Italian to English
- Introduction to Italian Literature (English)
George鈥檚 doctoral research is a study of the words which Dante uses only once in his great poem, the Commedia. George鈥檚 interest is in the work that these words do poetically, by dint of their very singularity. Because of their singularity, these hapax direct readerly attention and thus conjure particular affects, bring particular ideas and referents into relief, and serve as key vectors in Dante鈥檚 politics of language and politics through language in the poem.
George is also interested in the terza rima rhyme structure of the poem, specifically in the question of why so many hapax should be found in 鈥榬hyme position鈥� of their line. George has recently been investigating Dante鈥檚 use of hapax in codifying racial and religious difference in the Commedia. He also maintains a strong interest in ecopoetics and Anthropo-/Capitalo-cene studies, and how far Dante鈥檚 language in the Commedia establishes the non-human as 鈥榦ther鈥�.
Scholarships/Prizes
- 澳门六合彩开奖记录 UK Masters & Selwyn Sykes Scholarship (2019-2020)
- Open-Oxford-澳门六合彩开奖记录 AHRC DTP studentship (2020-2023)
Conference papers
- 鈥楧ante鈥檚 hapax legomena: the language and labour of winemaking in Dante鈥檚 Commedia鈥�, SIS Postgraduate Colloquium, 27/11/2020.
- w/ Aist臈 Kiltinavi膷i奴t臈, 鈥楶urgatorio 15: Are You Drunk? Visionary Metapoetics,鈥� 鈥楥anto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time,鈥� New York University and the Dante Society of America, February 2021.
- 鈥業s the language of the Commedia surprising? The case of the hapax 鈥荣迟耻辫别苍诲辞鈥� (3.26.89)鈥�, Dante鈥檚 Afterlives Conference, In Via Dante Network, 25/6/2021.
- 鈥楲a materialit脿 dei singoli usi: hapax legomena in rima nella Commedia鈥�, Congresso Dantesco Internazionale, Ravenna, 16/9/2021.
- 鈥樷�楲anguage always implies politics for the animal [鈥 that man is鈥� (Elisa Brilli): Hapax legomena and Exclusion in Dante鈥檚 Commedia鈥�, A Centenary Celebration of New Voices in UK and Irish Dante Studies, 12/11/2021.
- w/ Frey Kalus, 鈥楧ante in the Anthropocene: Statius鈥� 鈥榮pungo鈥� (2.25.56) as hybrid鈥�, AAIS conference, Bologna, 31/5/2022.
- 鈥楧ante鈥檚 Winemaking Hapax Legomena: Textual and Theological Labour in the Commedia鈥�, Notes in Italian Studies, 1 (2021), pp. 16-21.听
- Review of The Oxford Handbook of Dante, Medium Aevum 90.1 (2021), pp. 179-80.
