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At graduate level, Italian regularly admits students to its one-year Master of Studies programme (see https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/graduate/mst-mphil-modern-languages) and it has one of the largest and liveliest doctoral populations in the UK, and indeed internationally outside Italy.   

Information about the Italian options available as part of our MSt and MPhil degrees is available here.

Oxford Italian continues to recruit outstanding candidates globally (e.g. ones who are regularly awarded both Oxford’s Clarendon scholarships and UK government funding). The research culture is enhanced by a regular flow of visiting speakers and by Italian’s own Research Seminar series (running every term) and the events organized by Italian Studies at Oxford. The list of recently completed DPhils (i.e. doctorates) shows the range and variety of supervision on offer.

Recently completed DPhils
  • Marta Arnaldi, The Diasporic Canon: American Anthologies of Contemporary Italian Poetry, 1945-2015 (supervisor Nicola Gardini: 2018)
  • Adele Bardazzi, Shadows on the Edge: Eugenio Montale’s Afterlife (supervisor: Emanuela Tandello: 2017)
  • Alberica Bazzoni, Writing for Freedom: Body, Identity, and Power in Goliarda Sapienza’s Narrative (supervisor: Giuseppe Stellardi, 2014)
  • Roberto Binetti, Voices from a Minor Literature: Reading the Poetry of Elsa Morante, Amelia Rosselli, Patrizia Cavalli and Biancamaria Frabotta in Context (1968-1982) (supervisor: Emanuela Tandello: 2021)
  • Rebecca Bowen, Figures of Love: Amor from Antiquity to the Italian Middle Ages (supervisors: Elena Lombardi and Jàs Elsner: 2020)
  • Olmo Calzolari, Life and Disease in Leopardi and Svevo (supervisors: Emanuela Tandello and Giuseppe Stellardi: 2022)
  • Fanny Clemente, The Ecstatic Dis-Order: A Cultural and Literary Investigation of Post-Unification Italy (1861-1915) (supervisors: Emanuela Tandello and Giuseppe Stellardi: 2023)
  • Marzia D’Amico, Figlie di Omero: verso un’epica femminile (supervisor: Emanuela Tandello: 2018)
  • Adir de Oliveira Fonseca junior, Allegory of the Self: Boccaccio’s ‘Buccolicum Carmen’ (supervisors: Stephen Harrison and Simon Gilson: 2021)
  • Emily Di Dodo, 'Las Cient Novelas de Juan Bocaccio': A Critical Edition of the Medieval Castilian Translation of Boccaccio’s 'Decameron' (supervisors: Juan-Carlos Conde and Simon Gilson: 2023)
  • Caroline Dormor, Retrospection and Re-orientation in Dante’s Ante-Purgatory (supervisors: Simon Gilson and Francesca Southerden: 2022)
  • Francesco Feriozzi, The Reception of Troubadour Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Italy, from the ‘Questione della lingua’ to Giammaria Barbieri’s ‘Arte del rimare’ (supervisor: Simon Gilson: 2023)
  • Teresa Franco, Maschera delle maschere: Le traduzioni dall’Anglo-Americano di Giuseppe Giudici (anni 1950-1960) (supervisor: Nicola Gardini: 2013)
  • Giada Guassardo, Ludovico Ariosto's Lyric Poetry in the Literary Context of his Time (supervisor: Marco Dorigatti: 2020)
  • Alice Gussoni, Gaetano Salvemini’s Exile in Great Britain and the Construction of a Transnational Anti-Fascist Newtork (1925-1934) (supervisor: Guido Bonsaver: 2020)
  • Lachlan Hughes, Vernacular Song in Dante’s Florence (supervisors: Francesca Southerden and Elizabeth Leach: 2023)
  • Luca Mazzocchi, ‘Un abisso di bellezza e di scandolo’: A Study of Carlo Emilio Gadda’s L’‘Aldagisa’ (supervisor: Giuseppe Stellardi, 2023)
  • Hannah McIntyre, Leonora Carrington and Goliarda Sapienza: Anarchic Bodies (supervisors: Giuseppe Stellardi, Laura Marcus, Matthew Reynolds: 2022)
  • Cecilia Piantanida, Classical lyricism in Italian and North American Twentieth-Century Poetry (supervisor: Nicola Gardini, 2013)
  • Valentina Tibaldo, The Knowledge of Afterthought: A Comparative Reading of the Poetry of Caproni and Sereni (supervisor: Emanuela Tandello: 2022)