Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 海角社区 Sidgwick Avenue 海角社区 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
Jonny completed his BA in Italian Language and Literature at Christ Church, Oxford in 2019. He then took the ELAC MPhil course at 海角社区, writing a dissertation on centres and centrality in Dante鈥檚 鈥淒ivine Comedy鈥�. His doctoral dissertation also focuses on Dante, but he has previously written on Boccaccio, Anna Maria Ortese, and the modern Italian lyric.
Jonny鈥檚 research explores representations of absence in the 鈥淒ivine Comedy鈥�. Despite its being a poem that seeks to contain the universe in a single volume, it consistently draws attention to what it does not (and cannot)听 contain. In his doctoral study, Jonny is examining the ways in which Dante makes absences conspicuous in his poem, and the cumulative effect of the resultant empty spaces which permeate the text.
Scholarships/Prizes
- Jebb Studentship, 2020-present
- Cecil Roth Memorial Prize, 2019
- DART Poetry Prize, 2019
- Benjamin Zephaniah Poetry Prize, 2012
Conference Papers
- Forthcoming: 鈥淎AA Cercasi: Absence, Affect Antiquity in the Commedia鈥� 海角社区 2023 SIS Conference.
- 鈥淟a trama, l鈥檕rdita, e il vano: weaving and emptiness in Dante鈥檚 Commedia,鈥� Text and Techne: Textual Poetics, Poetic Textiles, June 2023.
- 鈥溾��(D)ov鈥櫭�?鈥�: Prospettive sulla perdita fra 濒鈥橧苍蹿别谤苍辞 e il Paradiso,鈥� Alma Dante, Universit脿 di Bologna, May 2023.
- 鈥溾�榁egna Medusa鈥�: Raffigurando gli spazi 鈥榲uoti鈥� della Commedia, University of Palermo, October 2022.
- 鈥溾�楺uel gran seggio: Approaching Absence in Paradiso,鈥� Dante鈥檚 Futures, University College Cork, November 2022.
- 鈥�Scemare, o come la Commedia si svirgilia鈥� Alma Dante, Universit脿 di Bologna, June 2022.
- 鈥溾�楽cemare,鈥� or approaching 鈥榁irgilessness鈥�,鈥� Dante鈥檚 Futures: A Centenary Celebration of New Voices in UK and Irish Dante Studies, November 2021.
- 鈥溾�楴on posso tacere鈥�: la materialit脿 della confessione in Inferno 13,鈥� Alma Dante, Universit脿 di Bologna, September 2021.
- 鈥淚nferno 23: Voice, Velocity, and the Pursuit of Gappiness鈥� Canto per Canto: Conversations with Dante in Our Time, New York University and the Dante Society of America, July 2021. Co-presented with Robin Kirkpatrick.
- 鈥�翱惫鈥櫭�? Absence, Desire, and the Meaning of Narrative in Dante鈥檚 Commedia,鈥� Dante鈥檚 Afterlives, In Via Dante Network, June 2021.
- 鈥淪cemare, or Approaching 鈥榁irgillessness鈥�,鈥� Bibliotheca Dantesca, 5 (2022): 312-326.
- 鈥溾�楾utto avem veduto鈥�? Enumeration and 鈥楩orgetfulness鈥� in Dante鈥檚 Commedia,鈥� MHRA Working Papers in the Humanities, 17 (2022): 6-14.
- 鈥淪e non鈥︹�� and 鈥淚 vostri mali鈥︹��: Interpretative Issues of Infernal Aposiopesis, Annali d'italianistica, 3 (2021): 205-228.
- 鈥淐entro del cammin鈥�: Centers and Centrality in the 鈥楥ommedia,鈥� Bibliotheca Dantesca, 3 (2020): 106-145. love, and/or the storm, Broken Sleep Books, 2020.
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Other activities and roles
Alongside his part-time PhD research, Jonny works in London as an actor and a tutor.
