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Zaynul Abedin
Zaynul Abedin
DPhil Student
  • French
zaynul.abedin@seh.ox.ac.uk
Supervisors
Professor Wes Williams
Professor Katherine Ibbett
Beverly Marie Adrian
DPhil Student
  • French
beverly.adrian@wadham.ox.ac.uk
Research topicResurrection, Reincarnation and the Perfectibility of the Soul in Nineteenth-Century French Literature, from Maistre to Hugo
Supervisor
Dr Tim Farrant
Catarina Alhinha
Catarina Alhinha
DPhil Student
  • Portuguese
catarina.alhinha@sant.ox.ac.uk
Supervisor
Professor Simon Park
Anneli Aliaga
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
Research topicDecolonisation in Action: Ecological Narratives, Racial Politics and Cultural Authorship in Contemporary Indigenous Bolivian Filmmaking
Supervisor
Professor Ben Bollig
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Elizabeth Apps
DPhil Student
  • French
elizabeth.apps@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Research topicDevotional Cognition and the Dynamics of Belief in Early Modern France
Supervisor
Professor Neil Kenny
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Theo Barnett
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
theo.barnett@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe Human Document in Russophone Literature of the Post-revolutionary Emigration, 1919-1940
Supervisor
Professor Philip Ross Bullock
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Emma Baxter
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
emma.baxter@wadham.ox.ac.uk
Research topicLiterary and Mathematical Modernisms in Russophone Literature 1900-1930
Supervisor
Professor Philip Ross Bullock
Magdalena Blincoe-Deval
Magdalena Blincoe-Deval
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
magdalene.blincoe-deval@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Research topicA is for Army: Memory and Militarisation in Contemporary Ukrainian and Russian Children's Literature
Supervisors
Professor Polly Jones
Professor Jan Fellerer
Irina Boeru
DPhil Student
  • French
Research topicEdging towards the Afortunadas: tracing memory and identity in the ocean narratives of Le Canarien
Supervisor
Professor Helen J Swift
Pietro Bordi
DPhil Student
  • Italian
pietro.bordi@balliol.ox.ac.ukpietrobordi99@gmail.com
Research topicThe Artist as a Reader of Dante: Depicting the Body in Alberto Martini's Illustrations for the Inferno (1901-1943)
Supervisor
Professor Simon Gilson FBA
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Alexandra Burgar
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
alexandra.burgar@wadham.ox.ac.uk
Research topic'Our Slavic call': Femininity as a Tool for the Projection of Post-Socialist Identity at the Eurovision Song Contest
Supervisor
Professor Philip Ross Bullock
Beatrice Carlini
DPhil Student
  • Italian
Research topicElsa Morante and Goliarda Sapienza in dialogue: Religion and Gender
Supervisors
Professor Francesca Southerden
Professor Emma Bond
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Silvia Cercarelli
DPhil Student
  • Italian
silvia.cercarelli@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk
Research topic20th century Italian literature, women's literature, antifascism
Supervisor
Professor Emma Bond
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Ramani Chandramohan
DPhil Student
  • French
ramani.chandramohan@queens.ox.ac.uk
Research topicConceptualising conversion: reading Herbert’s 'Li Romans de Dolopathos' in its manuscript context
Supervisor
Professor Daron Burrows
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Gwendoline Choi
DPhil Student
  • German
gwendoline.choi@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe German Colonial Imaginary 1918-1939: An Intermedial Study
Supervisor
Professor Barry Murnane
Manuela Crivelli
Manuela Crivelli
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
manuela.crivelli@magd.ox.ac.uk
Research topicCartographies of Catastrophe: Narrative Responses to Environmental Struggle in Contemporary Southern Cone Fiction
Supervisor
Dr Olivia Vázquez-Medina
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Zac Cross
DPhil Student
  • French
zachary.cross@spc.ox.ac.uk
Research topicAndrogyny and ekphrasis in Marcel Proust
Supervisor
Professor Jennifer Yee
Olivia Danielewicz
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
Andrea
Andrea di Serego Alighieri
DPhil Student
  • Italian
andrea.diseregoalighieri@keble.ox.ac.uk
Research topic“in the babbler that lives I demand to be inscribed” / “Chiss. elling dark. ness writing in lights” Amelia Rosselli and Kamau Brathwaite’s poetics of inscription across verse, page and diaspora
Supervisor
Professor Nicola Gardini
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Mareike Sophie Drünkler
DPhil Student
  • German
mareike.druenkler@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topicUncovering Women's Voices: Alternative Forms of Participation in the German Enlightenment
Supervisors
Professor Barry Murnane
Avi Lifschitz
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Tess Eastgate
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
tess.eastgate@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Supervisor
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Cameron Etherton
DPhil Student
  • French
cameron.etherton@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe Witness to Come: Jacques Derrida and the Survival of Testimony
Supervisor
Professor Ian Maclachlan
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Agnes Fanning
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
  • Portuguese
agnes.fanning@merton.ox.ac.uk
Research topicTwo Latin American Anarchists: Salvadora Medina Onrubia and Patrícia Galvão (Pagu)
Supervisors
Professor Ben Bollig
Professor Claudia Pazos-Alonso
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Sarah Isabelle Fengler
DPhil Student
  • German
sarah.fengler@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topicEuropean Old Testament Tragedies in the Age of Enlightenment
Supervisor
Professor Katrin Kohl
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Louise Ferris
DPhil Student
  • French
louise.ferris@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Research topicProust through the lens of Derrida, Nancy and Malabou: the breaking down of the distinction between the self and world in new forms of materiality
Supervisor
Professor Ian Maclachlan
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Sophie Forst
DPhil Student
  • German
sophie.forst@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Research topicEnlightenment Enlightened: Philosophical and Literary Reflections on Moral and Social Progress in the Eighteenth Century
Supervisors
Professor Barry Murnane
Dr Christoph Schmitt-Maass
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Rebecca Frik
DPhil student
  • Spanish
  • German
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Anna Glieden
DPhil Student
  • French
anna.glieden@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topicRepresentation and Perception of Sculptures in French Eighteenth-Century Literature
Supervisor
Professor Catriona Seth FBA
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Laura González Salmerón
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
Research topicIntersections between Science and Literature: Anglophone influences in contemporary Spanish fiction
Supervisors
Dr Daniela Omlor
Professor María del Pilar Blanco
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Rebekah Goodchild
DPhil Student
  • French
rebekah.goodchild@some.ox.ac.uk
Research topicArlequin Janséniste: Drama and Religious Controversy in Early Modern France
Supervisors
Dr Jessica Goodman
Professor Kate E Tunstall
Ekaterina Grechanaya
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
ekaterina.grechanaya@univ.ox.ac.uk
Research topicNavigating Intimate Regimes in Russophone Cinema
Supervisor
Professor Polly Jones
Olga Grochowska
Olga Grochowska
DPhil Student
  • Polish
olga.grochowska@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe Vanished Others: Narrating Poland’s Pre-Second World War Multi-Ethnicity in Contemporary Polish Prose
Supervisor
Professor Jan Fellerer
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Aditi Gupta
DPhil Student
  • French
aditi.gupta@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topicJean-Baptiste Gentil (1726-1799), A Traveller, Patron, Collector, and Historian: A Page in Indo-French Cultural Relations
Supervisor
Professor Catriona Seth FBA
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Alice Hawkins
DPhil Student
  • French
alice.hawkins@st-hildas.ox.ac.uk
Research topicFeminine Subjectivity and Virtue in Medieval Romance: the cases of Guinevere and Iseut
Supervisor
Professor Sophie Marnette
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Katherine Helmick
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
katherine.helmick@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topicMemory, Silence, and Narrative in Translingual Literatures from Zulu South Africa and Hispanophone Equatorial Guinea
Supervisors
Dr Laura Lonsdale
Elleke Boehmer
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Esme Hodson
DPhil Student
  • Italian
esme.hodson@trinity.ox.ac.uk
Research topicGender, Objects and Things in the Works of Cecilia Mangini, Anna Maria Ortese, and Natalia Ginzburg
Supervisors
Professor Emma Bond
Professor Guido Bonsaver
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Sabrina Hogan
DPhil Student
  • French
sabrina.hogan@chch.ox.ac.uk
Research topicAttention and devotion in sixteenth-century French poetry
Supervisor
Professor Neil Kenny
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Roberto Interdonato
DPhil Student
  • German
  • Italian
roberto.interdonato@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Research topicAlienation and the Utopian Function of Literature in Anna Maria Ortese and Ingeborg Bachmann
Supervisors
Professor Robert Vilain
Professor Guido Bonsaver
Melaniia K.
Melaniia Kalinina
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
melaniia.kalinina@seh.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe Intellectual Contexts of Andrei Bely’s Theory of Poetic Rhythm
Supervisor
Professor Philip Ross Bullock
Akari Kobayashi
DPhil Student
  • French
akari.kobayashi@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Research topicTextual/Sexual Bodies in Translation: Metamorphosing Sex in Ovide Moralisé and Ovidius Moralizatus
Supervisor
Professor Helen J Swift
Sofiia Kosourova
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
sofiia.kosourova@sant.ox.ac.uk
Research topicHybrid War and Hybrid Memories: the Russo-Ukrainian Сonflict in Film"
Supervisor
Professor Polly Jones
Elliot Koubis
DPhil Student
  • French
  • Modern Greek
elliot.koubis@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Research topicAgainst Homochrononormativity: New Queer Times in French and Greek Literature
Supervisors
Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou
Professor Marie-Chantal Killeen
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DPhil Student
  • French
maya.kucinskas@orange.frmaya.kucinskas@stx.ox.ac.uk
Research topic"Tu vois tout en rose!" : The Semantics of Passion & The Passion for Semantics in Louis-Ferdinand Céline's Voyage au bout de la nuit
Supervisor
Dr Reidar Due
Thomas Lambert
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
thomas.lambert@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Deborah Lemke
DPhil Student
  • French
deborah.lemke@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Research topicNaming Identity: Proper Names in the Writing of Romain Gary and Patrick Modiano
Supervisor
Dr Simon Kemp
Patrick Leuenberger
DPhil Student
  • German
patrick.leuenberger@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Research topicCritical Study of the Representation of the Stranger and Dark Skin in German Medieval Literature
Supervisor
Professor Almut Suerbaum
Mingshi Lin
Mingshi Lin
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
mingshi.lin@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe Laboratory-Gallery of Knowledge:
Reimagining Science in Art from Chile and Argentina during the Cold War
Supervisor
Professor María del Pilar Blanco
Martin Lindner, University of Oxford
Martin Lindner
DPhil Student
  • German
martin.lindner@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topic(De-)constructing cultural colonialisms: A narratological investigation of Habsburg’s inner & extra-European discourses of identity and difference.
Supervisor
Professor Carolin Duttlinger FBA
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Kate McKee
DPhil Student
  • Italian
katherine.mckee@new.ox.ac.uk
Research topicTracing the Medieval Italian Literary Smellscape
Supervisors
Professor Elena Lombardi
Professor Francesca Southerden
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Benjamin Micallef
DPhil Student
  • French
benjamin.micallef@jesus.ox.ac.uk
Research topicSemio-Ecology: An Archeology of Ontological Difference in European Thought (1948-1968)
Supervisor
Professor Nikolaj Lübecker
Christopher Monier
DPhil Student
  • French
christopher.monier@magd.ox.ac.uk
Rosalind Moran
Rosalind Moran
DPhil Student
  • Portuguese
rosalind.moran@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topicExpanding Ecocriticism by Using Concepts from Physics in Interpreting Modernist Literatures
Supervisors
Claire Williams
Professor Michael H. Whitworth
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Thomas Morris Tena
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
thomas.morristena@queens.ox.ac.uk
Research topicBorges and Marías: Style and Cosmopolitanism in Two Author-Translators
Supervisors
Professor Ben Bollig
Dr Laura Lonsdale
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Sally Mullis
DPhil Student
  • French
sally.mullis@magd.ox.ac.uk
Research topicAnimal cognition and the arts in early modern French thought, c. 1570-1700
Supervisor
Professor Raphaële Garrod
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Daria Nepochatova
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
daria.nepochatova@new.ox.ac.uk
Research topicUkrainian Women's Almanacs as Nineteenth-Century Feminist Literature
Supervisor
Dr Margarita Vaysman
Anastasiia Oleshchuk
Anastasiia Oleshchuk
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
anastasiia.oleshchuk@spc.ox.ac.uk
Research topicShaping Ideas about the Nation and Its Readers: Russian Literary Anthologies, 1850–1900
Supervisor
Dr Tamar Koplatadze
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Mary Orsak
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
mary.orsak@univ.ox.ac.uk
Research topicPregnancy, Parturition, and Motherhood in Contemporary Czech, Slovak, and Russian Women's Writing
Supervisor
Dr Rajendra Chitnis
Vera Otdelnova
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
vera.otdelnova@univ.ox.ac.uk
Research topic'Creative Support'. Easel Painting and Socialist State in the late 1950s-1980s
Supervisor
Professor Polly Jones
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Jose Parra Zeltzer
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
jose.parrazeltzer@exeter.ox.ac.uk
Research topicControl and chance in the representation of peripheral spaces and identities in contemporary Chilean fiction cinema
Supervisor
Professor Ben Bollig
Maria Pereira Branco
DPhil Student
  • Portuguese
maria.pereirabranco@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe differences that bind them together in the search for freedom: a comparative study of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Natália Correia
Supervisor
Professor Claudia Pazos-Alonso
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Maria Petrovskikh
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
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mariia.petrovskikh@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Research topicGenealogy of Autofictional Texts of the 1860s (Alexander Herzen, Aleksei Pisemskii)
Supervisor
Dr Margarita Vaysman
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Marilou Poliquin
DPhil Student
  • French
marilou.poliquin@merton.ox.ac.uk
Research topicTransnational literary networks of the Romantic period
Supervisor
Professor Catriona Seth FBA
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Monty Powell
DPhil Student
  • German
monty.powell@chch.ox.ac.uk
Research topicMultivocality in the Visionary Works and Letters of Hildegard of Bingen
Supervisor
Professor Almut Suerbaum
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Timothy Powell
DPhil Student
  • German
timothy.powell@seh.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe Reception of Hans Sachs in the German Democratic Republic 1949-1990
Supervisor
Professor Henrike Lähnemann
Sasho Pshenko
DPhil Student
  • French
Research topicThe late thought of Gilles Deleuze, as presented in Cinema, structuralism, film, literature
Supervisor
Dr Reidar Due
Elisian Ralli
Elisian Eleni Maria Ralli
DPhil Student
  • French
elisian.ralli@keble.ox.ac.uk
Research topicLire son propre roman: The 'livre de luxe' as a medium of self-fashioning in bibliophile societies of the Parisian fin-de-siècle
Supervisor
Patrick McGuinness
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Xavier Rock
DPhil Student
  • Slavonic
xavier.rock@sant.ox.ac.uk
Research topicGender Portrayal and Gender Identity: A Russian-Language Cultural Media Analysis
Supervisor
Professor Philip Ross Bullock
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Mariana Rodriguez Barreno
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
mariana.rodriguezbarreno@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Research topicFeminine hemispheres: networks and international cultural production in the first half of the twentieth century
Supervisor
Professor María del Pilar Blanco
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Holly Rowe
DPhil Student
  • French
holly.rowe@lincoln.ox.ac.uk
Research topicEvidence, example, and expérience in the eighteenth-century French essay
Supervisor
Professor Caroline Warman
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Rebecca Schleuß
DPhil Student
  • German
rebecca.schleuss@some.ox.ac.uk
Research topicHealing Sisters. Health Provision in Medieval Convent Rules and Literature
Supervisor
Professor Henrike Lähnemann
Sarah Schwarz
DPhil Student
  • German
Research topicThe Poetics of Medicine. Medical Writing in works of Stifter, Benn, Döblin and Mann
Supervisor
Professor Benjamin Morgan
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Kate Sligo
DPhil Student
  • French
catherine.sligo@mod-langs.ox.ac.ukcatherine.sligo@new.ox.ac.uk
Research topicA French Idea of the Global: the Song of Diversity at Éditions Stock
Supervisor
Professor Catriona Seth FBA
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Alejandro Soto-Chaves
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
alejandro.sotochaves@merton.ox.ac.uk
Research topicTransnational Exchange, Polycentric Modernisms, and the Question of Central America’s Avant-Garde
Supervisor
Professor María del Pilar Blanco
Yuchen Sun
DPhil Student
  • French
07352126088
yuchen.sun@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Research topicContemporary French Philosophy, Deconstruction
Supervisors
Dr Simon Kemp
Professor Christina Howells
Ayna Taira
DPhil Student
  • German
ayna.taira@sjc.ox.ac.uk
Research topicYoko Tawada and Multilingual Poetics
Supervisor
Professor Karen Leeder
Asimina Tassopoulou
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
asimina.tassopoulou@lmh.ox.ac.uk
Research topicEarly modern Sephardic Writing: the ideology and aesthetics of the poetic anthology Elogios
Supervisors
Professor Jonathan W Thacker
Dr Roy Norton
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Giovanna Truong
DPhil Student
  • German
Research topicThe effect of printing on Yiddish
Supervisors
Professor Henrike Lähnemann
Professor Kerstin Hoge
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Orestis Tzirtzilakis
DPhil Student
  • Modern Greek
orestis.tzirtzilakis@merton.ox.ac.uk
Research topicA Cultural Genealogy of Modern Greek Hysteria, 19–20th-century
Supervisor
Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou
Jacqueline Uren
DPhil Student
  • French
jacqueline.uren@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topic‘Le théâtre et la reine’: Marie-Antoinette, Letters, and Courtly Spectacle, 1770-1789
Supervisor
Professor Catriona Seth FBA
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Lujza Vallo
DPhil Student
  • German
lujza.vallo@seh.ox.ac.uk
Research topicMy Jewishness is my "life issue", the circumstances, the laws, the world made it so.' Jewish Assimilationist Writing in Mitteleuropa from 1980-1940.
Supervisors
Professor David Groiser
Dr Kirstin Gwyer
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Georgie Walker
DPhil Student
  • French
georgina.walker@magd.ox.ac.uk
Research topic'Eating Affect': The Affective Resonances of Culinary Encounters in Seventeenth-Century French Literature
Supervisor
Professor Katherine Ibbett
Zoe West-Taylor
Zoe West-Taylor
DPhil Student
  • Spanish
zoe.west-taylor@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research topicThe Modern Time(s) of María Luisa Bombal: Theatre, Cinema, Multilingualism
Supervisor
Professor María del Pilar Blanco
Alessandro Zammataro
DPhil Student
  • Italian
alessandro.zammataro@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Research topicAntonio Grifo’s Illumination as a Visual Commentary to Petrarch’s Canzoniere
Supervisor
Professor Simon Gilson FBA
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Carlo Maria Zanetti
DPhil Student
  • Italian
carlo.zanetti@new.ox.ac.uk
Research topicBuilding Community through Individual Agency: The Linguistic Roots of Intersubjective Sociality in High Medieval Culture
Supervisors
Professor Francesca Southerden
Dr Emily Winkler

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