The Italian section has a plurality of ongoing research lines in which literature and linguistics cross paths. Our main research areas can be summarized as follows.
Claudia Crocco’s research interests range from grammar to sociolinguistics. Her current research topics include intonational phonetics and phonology of Italian and Italo-Romance dialects, syntax-prosody interface, and the (re)standardization of Italian. She is also interested in early modern grammatical writings.
Teodoro Katinis’ research interests in Renaissance Italian literature and philosophy intersect the history of medicine and the history of rhetoric, with a focus on the rebirth of the sophistic tradition between 15th and 17th century and its impact on early modern literary theories.
Mara Santi’s main research interests lie in modern and contemporary Italian narrative, narratology, philology, and literary theory, with a focus on authors who have greatly influenced Italian culture in the 19th and 20th centuries, above all Gabriele d’Annunzio, Italo Svevo and Carlo Emilio Gadda.
For information on the specific projects of professors but also collaborators, postdocs and PhDs, see the personal researchers’ webpages under contact.