Italian Studies
Teaching and research staff within Italian Studies.
Italian Studies academic staff
Prof Guyda Armstrong
Professor in Italian Studies
Specialisms: Italian medieval literature (Boccaccio, Dante, Petrarch) and its reception; book history and print culture; the history of translation; digital humanities.
Prof Delia Bentley
Professor of Romance Linguistics
Prof Francesca Billiani
Professor of Italian
Specialisms: 20th-century Italian cultural history; publishing history; European modernisms and avant-gardes; 1930s aesthetics and dictatorships; 20th-century Italian cultural politics.
Ms Monica Boria
Senior Language Tutor in Italian
Specialisms: Contemporary Italian cultural studies; humour studies and translation.
Dr Andrea Brondino
Lecturer in Italian Studies
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.
Honorary and Emeritus staff
Dr Christopher Rundle
Honorary Research Fellow in Translation and Interpreting
Prof Nigel Vincent
Professor Emeritus of General and Romance Linguistics