Professor P.R.J. Hainsworth (retired)
Professor of Italian
University Lecturer in Italian and Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall
Address: Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, OX2 6QA
Email: peter.hainsworth@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 274340
Research
Peter Hainsworth's main research interests are in 13th- and 14th-century poetry and in 20th-century poetry and prose, particularly in the relationship between literature and Fascism.
Teaching
Italian language and literature, especially 13th- and 14th-century literature and literature since unification (1860).
Publications
'Il detto, il non-detto e il dicibile de Laspettatrice di Paola Capriolo', in: Il detto e il non detto (L. Waage Petersen, B. Brudtvig, P. Schwarz Lausten, eds.) (Cesati, 2002), 127-138
Editor, with David Robey, Oxford Companion to Italian Literature (OUP) (OUP, 2002)
'Florentine Cultural Journalism under Fascism: Il Bargello', Modern Language Review, 95 (2000), 696-711
'Fascism in Fiction: Pratolini reconsidered', Italian Studies, 55 (2000), 121-137
'Literature and Society in Italy', in: Italy: Fiction, Theater, Poetry, Film since 1950 (Robert Dombroski, ed.) (Griffon House, 2000), 29-52