Director of Postgraduate Reseach
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Chronologically, my research focus is on the renaissance (or the later middle ages, or the earlier early modern period). I am interested in the uses and abuses of the past, including classical reception and the history of scholarship. These strands come together in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italian humanism, which is the subject of most of my publications.
I teach and supervise more broadly, on topics related to Italy, memory, representation, and the arts, and the cultural history of ideas.