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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Dr Alessandra Diazzi 
Teaching Lecturer in Italian

Specialisms: History of psychoanalysis in Italy and its cultural reception; 20th-century Italian literature; literature of factory; Italian cinema in the Years of Lead.

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Professional support staff

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Languages administration team - salc-languages@manchester.ac.uk

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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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