Postdoctoral Research Fellow

AHRC-funded Project Dante and Late Medieval Florence

Room H4.07

Tel: +44 (0)2476 573434
Email: A.Pegoretti@warwick.ac.uk

Office hrs: by appointment

Humanities Building, University Road
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL

About

Dr Anna Pegoretti is the Postdoctoral Research Fellow for the AHRC-funded Project "Dante and Late Medieval Florence: Theology in Poetry, Practice and Society", co-led by the University of Leeds and Warwick. As part of this project, she is investigating Florentine Mendicant schools and libraries in the age of Dante (1280-1300 c).

Before coming to Warwick, Dr Pegoretti was the F.A. Yates short-term Fellow at the Warburg Institute-SAS University of London (Sept-Dec 2010) and the Newton International Fellow for the British Academy at the University of Leeds (2011-2012). She was the Warwick Transatlantic Fellow at Notre Dame University in April 2014. She holds a PhD in Italian Studies from the Università di Pisa.

Research interests

• Dante Studies, including Dante's Fortune
• Literature and Art History
• History of the Book
• History of Education in Medieval and Early Modern Italy
• Geography and Literature in Medieval and Early Modern Italy

Teaching and supervisions

• Italian Palaeography: MA module, full responsibility (2013-2014; 2014-2015)
• IT318 ‘Introducing Dante’s Purgatory and Paradise’: upper-undergraduate course, taught with Simon Gilson and Fabio Camilletti (2013-2014)
  
• since 2011 I regularly collaborate with the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna co-supervising BA and MA dissertations on Dante Alighieri's works and their afterlife

Selected publications

• 'Filosofanti', Le Tre Corone. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, 2 (2015), pp. 11-70

• Indagine su un codice dantesco. La 'Commedia' Egerton 943 della British Library (Pisa: Felici Editore, 2014; series 'Studi italianistici')

• Dal "lito diserto" al giardino: la costruzione del paesaggio nel 'Purgatorio' di Dante (Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2007)

Qualifications & Fellowships

• Warwick Transatlantic Fellow (March-April 2014)
• Newton International Fellow for the British Academy at the University of Leeds (2011-2012)
• F.A. Yates short-term fellow at the Warburg Institute
• PhD (Studi Italianistici) Università di Pisa (2009)
• BA+MA (Lettere Moderne) Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna (2005)
• BA (Violin) Conservatorio "F.A. Bonporti" di Trento (2000)

Editorial Activity

Member of the editorial board of the scientific peer-reviewed journal L’Alighieri (since 2013)

Professional Memberships

• Leeds Centre for Dante Studies
• Society for Italian Studies (SIS)
• Renaissance Society of America (RSA)