Italian Studies

Teaching and research staff within Italian Studies.

Italian Studies academic staff

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Dr Guyda Armstrong
Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies

Specialisms: Italian medieval literature (Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarch) and its reception; book history and print culture; the history of translation; digital humanities.

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Dr Francesca Billiani 
Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies

Specialisms: 20th-century Italian cultural history; publishing history; European modernisms and avant-gardes; 1930s aesthetics and dictatorships; 20th-century Italian cultural politics.

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Mr Salvatore Campisi
Senior Language Tutor in Italian

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Prof Stephen Milner
Serena Professor of Italian

Specialisms: Late Medieval and Renaissance Cultural History; reception of classical rhetorical theory in Italy 1250-1500; Machiavelli; Boccaccio; Florence and the Medici; Pistoia and the Florentine territorial state; manuscript and early printed book production and parchment; reception of Italian Renaissance in nineteenth-century northern England; urban space and architecture. 

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Honorary and Emeritus staff

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Dr Stuart Oglethorpe
Honorary Research Fellow in Italian Studies

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Mr Spencer Pearce
Honorary Fellow Lecturer in Italian Studies

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Dr Christopher Rundle 
Honorary Research Fellow in Translation and Interpreting

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Prof Nigel Vincent 
Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics

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