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Researcher
Fields of research
- Dante
- Early Italian lyric poetry
- Visions and dreams in medieval Italian literature and culture
- Cognitive literary studies
- Translation studies
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
- ‘Sensation (Un)bound: Literary Synaesthesia and Cross-Sensory Perception in Dante’s Purgatorio 24,’ Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies, Vol. 3 (2020), 86-106.
- ‘Rapture and Visionary Violence in Dante’s Purgatorio 9,’ Annali d’Italianistica 39 (2021), 247‑72.
Book Chapters
- ‘Vita nova XXIX: the “Nineness” of Beatrice and the Subtlety of Interpretation,’ in Rereading Dante’s Vita nova, ed. Zygmunt Barański and Heather Webb (Notre Dame University Press, 2023), forthcoming.
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Education
- PhD in Italian, University of Cambridge, UK (thesis: ‘Sensory Perception in Dante’s Dreams and Visions,’ supervisor: Prof. Heather Webb)
- MPhil in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, University of Cambridge, UK
- BA in English, University of Cambridge, UK
Scholarships & Prizes
- 2022: Vilnius University Foundation Research Grant.
- 2020: The Italian Studies Library Research Award, University of Notre Dame.
- 2018-2021: The Vice-Chancellor’s & Selwyn Sykes Postgraduate Research Scholarship, University of Cambridge.
Conference Presentations
Invited Talks
- 02/2023. ‘Dante’s Dream Language,’ UCC Dante Public Lecture Series 2023, University College Cork.
- 04/2022. ‘Multisensory Commedia: Synaesthetic Writing and Dante’s Immersive Sensescapes,’ the Leeds Centre for DanteStudies lunch series, University of Leeds.
Other Conference Papers
- 11/2022. ‘Voicing Dante’s Wife: The Multiple Lives of Gemma Donati,’ Conference ‘Dante Futures: New Voices in the UK andIreland,’ University College Cork.
- 09/2022. ‘God‑made Images and Dante’s Synaesthetic Art on the Terrace of Pride,’ VI. Forum Kunst des Mittelalters, Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
- 07/2022. ‘Reimagining the Dream Poet: Edward Burne‑Jones’s Dantean Chaucer,’ the 22nd Biennial New Chaucer SocietyCongress, Durham University.
- 05/2022. ‘Dante’s “Other” Women and the Socially Extended Mind in the Vita nova,’ the 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
- 09/2021. ‘Materialità e immaterialità sulla cornice degli iracondi (Purgatorio 15 e 17),’ Congresso Dantesco Internazionale ‘Alma Dante’ 2021, Ravenna, Italy.