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PhD and MPhil

Italian

 

Recent PhD Graduates in Italian, 2017 Onwards

Name College Thesis title Conferral Year Supervisor

Charlotte Alton

Selwyn

Affective Contagions and Communities in Boccaccio’s Decameron 2023 ProfHeather Webb
The morpho-syntax of Barese 2018

Sara Cardullo

StJohn's

Morphosyntactic Microvariation in the Aeolian Dialects

2025
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

Tommaso Forni

Selwyn

"Polyanthea" or Polyantheas: The hidden foundation of the European Renaissance

Prof Abigail Brundin

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
Ruth Murphy St John's Conceptualising empathy as an ethical and literary problem post-Holocaust 2025 Prof Robert Gordon
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
George Rayson Selwyn Singularities in harmony: the rhyming hapax legomena in Dante's Commedia 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

2021

Prof Robert Gordon

Michele Maiolani

Selwyn

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

2023

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.

2023

Prof Abigail Brundin
Luigi Pinton Clare Witnessing the lives of others: Antonio Tabucchi's second-hand stories 2023 DrPierpaoloAntonello
Onkar Singh Selwyn Diachronic and Synchronic Microvariation in Differential Object Marking (DOM) in ItaloRomance and beyond 2024
Frey Kalus St Catharine's Dante and the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke Prof Heather Webb
OrsolyaPetocz Selwyn Between Queer Invisibility and Hypervisibility - Italian and Francophone Text and Image 2024 Prof Emma WilsonandProf Robert Gordon

St Catharine's

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

2022 Prof Helena Sanson
Jonathan Wiles Selwyn "Vegna Medusa": Dante's Poetics of Absence in and Around the 'Commedia' 2025 Prof Heather Webb

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