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Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics

 

Dr Helena Phillips-Robins

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Position(s): 
Teaching Associate in Medieval Italian Literature and Culture
Department/Section: 
Italian
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages
Raised Faculty Building

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Sidgwick Avenue

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CB3 9DA

United Kingdom

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About: 

Dr Phillips-Robins (PhD ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ 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.

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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

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Published works: 

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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)

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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

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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 (ÃÜÌÒÊÓÆµ: Legenda, 2022), pp. 35-46

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