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Read more at: Dr Jessica Maratsos as new Assistant Professor of Italian in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
Dr Jessica Maratsos

Dr Jessica Maratsos as new Assistant Professor of Italian in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies

The Italian Section is delighted to announce that Dr Jessica Maratsos will be joining us from 1 September as our new Assistant Professor of Italian in Renaissance and Early Modern Studies. You can read about her recent book, Pontormo and the Art of Devotion in Renaissance Italy (ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ, 2021) here: https://doi.org/10...

Read more at: Professor Virginia Cox has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences
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Professor Virginia Cox has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences

The Italian Section is delighted to announce that Professor Virginia Cox has been elected as Fellow of the British Academy . Virginia Cox’s research focuses on Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italian literature, on the history of the reception of classical rhetorical theory in Italy between the thirteenth and sixteenth...

Read more at: Elena Sottilotta awarded the Women's Studies Caucus Award of the American Association for Italian Studies
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Elena Sottilotta awarded the Women's Studies Caucus Award of the American Association for Italian Studies

Warmest congratulations to our PhD student Elena Sottilotta who has received the Women's Studies Caucus Award of the American Association for Italian Studies, awarded to the best research papers in Women's and Gender Studies presented by doctoral students and early-career scholars at the 2022 AAAIS Conference. Her paper “...

Read more at: Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover]
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Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover]

Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature and Culture [Temporary Cover] The Italian Section in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics in the ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ is seeking to appoint a Fixed-Term Assistant Professor in Renaissance and Early Modern Italian Literature...

Read more at: Uzma Hameed, dramaturg for Wayne McGregor’s new ballet The Dante Project, a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet, in conversation with Heather Webb (Sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo)
Uzma Hameed in conversation with Heather Webb

Uzma Hameed, dramaturg for Wayne McGregor’s new ballet The Dante Project, a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet, in conversation with Heather Webb (Sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo)

Uzma Hameed, dramaturg for Wayne McGregor’s new ballet The Dante Project, a co-production between The Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet, in conversation with Heather Webb Sponsored by Intesa Sanpaolo Please accept marketing cookies to show embedded content (open cookie preferences) View content (opens www.youtube.com in...

Read more at: Dr Sara Delmedico (PhD in Italian 2019) awarded IRC Maurice J Bric Medal of Excellence
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Dr Sara Delmedico (PhD in Italian 2019) awarded IRC Maurice J Bric Medal of Excellence

The Italian Section is delighted to congratulate Dr Sara Delmedico, one of our former PhDs, for being awarded the IRC Maurice J Bric Medal of Excellence , as the top-ranked Postdoctoral Fellow of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences under the Council’s 2021 Government of Ireland funding programme. Her postdoctoral project...

Read more at: Joint PhD studentship between ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ and the British School at Rome - Postwar Rome 1944-1951: Transnational flows and the culture of occupation and reconstruction
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Joint PhD studentship between ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ and the British School at Rome - Postwar Rome 1944-1951: Transnational flows and the culture of occupation and reconstruction

The Italian Section is pleased to invite applications to a new joint PhD studentship between ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ and the British School at Rome, starting in October 2022. The PhD project will be on the topic: Postwar Rome 1944-1951: Transnational flows and the culture of occupation and reconstruction. Candidates will be asked to...

Read more at: Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: a modern edition of Isabella Sori’s 1628 Ammaestramenti e ricordi, Difese, Panegirico
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Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: a modern edition of Isabella Sori’s 1628 Ammaestramenti e ricordi, Difese, Panegirico

Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: a modern edition of Isabella Sori’s 1628 Ammaestramenti e ricordi, Difese, Panegirico (Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2021, 312 pp.) The Italian Section is delighted to announce the publication of a new book by Professor Helena Sanson, a modern edition, in Italian, of Isabella...

Read more at: Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: Women in the History of Linguistics
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Professor Helena Sanson publishes new book: Women in the History of Linguistics

The Italian Section is delighted to announce the publication of a new book by Professor Helena Sanson, Women in the History of Linguistics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020; 672 pp.), co-edited with Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett (Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics). The volume is a ground-breaking...

Read more at: Livia Russell Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize Winner 2020
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Livia Russell Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize Winner 2020

The Italian Section extends warmest congratulations to former undergraduate Livia Russell who has won the Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Undergraduate Prize 2020 for her Dissertation ‘Contact and intimacy: Mario Giacomelli’s photo-poetic encounters’ . The Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize aims to raise the profile...

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Researchers at the ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ have launched a new study into Llanito, the distinctive hybrid vernacular spoken in Gibraltar, and its relationship to Gibraltar English. The project is led by Professor Brechtje Post, Professor Ioanna Sitaridou, Professor Laura Wright, and Research Assistant Amber Holt, and forms...

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We are delighted to share the news that Dr Claire White, Associate Professor of French in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics, and Fellow of Girton College, ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ, has published her new book, Zola’s Dream: Idealism on Trial , with ÃÜÌÒÊÓƵ University Press. The study takes as its starting...

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