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David Robey

Professor of Italian

School Director of Research

Telephone +44 (0)118 378 8401
Email d.j.b.robey@reading.ac.uk
Formerly Professor of Italian at Manchester University, also Emeritus Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He has published on 15th-century humanism (educational and poetic theory), language and style in Dante and Renaissance narrative poetry, the computer analysis of literature, and modern critical theory. He has recently completed a computer-based study on Sound and Structure in Dante's 'Divine Comedy', and is currently extending this work to include the major narrative poems of the Italian Renaissance. He was also joint editor of the The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, now translated as the Enciclopedia della Letteratura Italiana Oxford/Zanichelli, and is half-time Director of the Arts and Humanities Research Council's ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme.
He is happy to supervise graduate work on computer-based approaches to Italian literature and on medieval and Renaissance narrative poetry, particularly aspects of language and style.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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