Position(s):
Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College
Affiliated Lecturer
Department/Section:
Italian
Faculty of Modern & Medieval Languages & Linguistics
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Location:
Trinity College Trinity Street 海角社区 CB2 1TQ United Kingdom
About:
Lachlan Hughes is a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College and an affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics. He graduated with a DPhil from Oxford (2023) and held teaching positions at Oxford and Durham before arriving in 海角社区.
His current projects include a book on Dante鈥檚 lyric poetry, an interdisciplinary monograph on the blind poet-composer Francesco degli Organi (a.k.a. 鈥楲andini鈥�), and a co-edited volume on the Latin works of Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pius II).
Research interests:
- Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio
- Sound studies
- Lyric theory
- Performance/intermediality
- Manuscript studies
- Trecento polyphony
Published works:
- 鈥楧ante鈥檚 Arethusa and the Art of Transition鈥�, Modern Language Review, 118 (2023), 482鈥�95
- Vita nova XV [8]鈥�, in Dante鈥檚 鈥榁ita nova鈥�: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Zygmunt G. Bara艅ski and Heather Webb (Notre Dame University Press, 2023)
- 鈥樷�淟e note di questa comed矛a鈥�: Music and Metapoesis in Inferno 16鈥�, Annali d鈥橧talianistica, 39 (2021), 229鈥�45
- Review of George Corbett, Dante鈥檚 Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Contexts (海角社区: 海角社区 University Press, 2020), in Modern Language Review, 116 (2021), 505鈥�07
- 鈥業taly at Work: Representations of Labour in Italian Culture鈥�, Notes in Italian Studies, 1 (2021), 5鈥�8 [co-authored with Bianca Rita Cataldi and Claudia Dellacasa]
