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PhD and MPhil

Italian

 

Recent PhD Graduates in Italian

Name College Thesis title Conferral Year Supervisor
The morpho-syntax of Barese 2018
Valentina Colasanti Comparativemorpho-syntaxof the (Italo-)Romance varieties 2019
Women and their legal status in nineteenth-century Italy 2019 Prof Helena Sanson
Manuela Di Franco American culture and the development of mass press in Fascist Italy 2019 Prof Robert Gordon

Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė

Quanto natura a sentir ti dispuose’: Dante and the Senses of Personhood 2022 Prof Heather Webb
Serena Laiena Giovan Battista Andreini (1576-1654) on Stage: Between Language and Intertextuality 2022 Prof Helena Sanson
Nicole Maniero 'The Role of the Anthropological Method in Italian Literature (1970-1985): Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Gianni Celati 2022 Prof Robert Gordon
Valentina Mele Guido Cavalcanti,Rime. A study on textual subjectivity. 2020 Prof Heather Webb
Nicolò Morelli Animal imagery in Petrarch’s poetry and in that of his models 2019 Prof Heather Webb
Amelia Papworth The lyric poetry of LauraTerracina 2019 Prof Abigail Brundin
Ryan Pepin Dante, Liturgy, Lyric, and Performance 2020 Prof Heather Webb
Liturgical Song in Dante's Commedia 2017
Katherine Powlesland Dante's"Commedia": towards Interactivity in 'Paradiso', with particular reference to Dante with digital narrative theory 2019 Prof Heather Webb
Greek and Romance language contact in Southern Italy 2017
Eleonora Serra Linguistic prestige in early modern Italy 2020 Prof Helena Sanson
Cameron Taylor Complementation in the Dialects of Southern Italy 2018 Prof Adam Ledgeway
Katherine Tycz The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions 2018 Prof Abigail Brundin
Anna Wagner Margherita Costa: A 'Virtuosa' on the Literary Stage of the Seicento 2021 Prof Helena Sanson

Selwyn

Uncovering classical mythology in Dante's Earthly Paradise

2023

Dr Heather Webb

Caius

16th October 1943: literature, history and memory

Prof Robert Gordon

Michele Maiolani

Selwyn

'The Role of the AnthropologicalMethod in Italian Literature (1970-1985): Italo Calvino, Primo Levi and Gianni Celati

Prof Robert Gordon

Simone Monti

St Catharine's

The genre of Rime in morte in Renaissance women’s lyric poetry: Vittoria Colonna,
Veronica Gambara, Chiara Matraini and Francesca Turina.

Prof Abigail Brundin
Luigi Pinton Clare Witnessing the lives of others: Antonio Tabucchi's second-hand stories DrPierpaoloAntonello

St Catharine's

Women Writing Folklore: Politics of Folk and Fairy-tale Collections from Italian and Irish Islands (1870-1920)

Prof Helena Sanson

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