Martin McLaughlin
Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College.[1] In addition to his published academic results he is the English translator of Umberto Eco's On Literature and Italo Calvino's Hermit in Paris.[1]
Academic research[]
McLaughlin's research interests include Italian Renaissance literature, Renaissance humanism, Renaissance literary theory, Renaissance biography, Alberti, Petrarch, Poliziano, Tasso, the classical legacy in Italian literature, contemporary , Italo Calvino, Andrea De Carlo, and translation studies.[1] He teaches Italian language and literature, especially Dante, Renaissance literature from Petrarch to Tasso, post-war fiction especially Calvino, the Italian short story, and translation studies.[1]
Published works[]
- Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance, Oxford Modern Language and Literature Monographs (London: Clarendon Press, 1995)
- Italo Calvino, Writers of Italy (Edinburgh University Press, 1998)
- Translator, Italo Calvino, The Path to the Spider's Nest (London: HarperCollins, 1998)
- Translator, Italo Calvino, Why Read The Classics? (London: Cape, 1999)
- Editor, Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism: A Festschrift for Peter Brand (Oxford: Legenda, 2000)
- Translator, Italo Calvino, Hermit in Paris. Autobiographical Writings (London: Cape, 2003)
- Translator, Umberto Eco, On Literature (London: Secker & Warburg, 2005)
- Editor, with , Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy (Oxford: Legenda, 2007)
- Editor, with and , 'Image, Eye and Art' in Calvino: Writing Visibility (Oxford: Legenda, 2007)
- Editor, with and Peter Hainsworth, Petrarch in Britain: Interpreters, Imitators, and Translators Over 700 Years (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- Editor, with , Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures 1995-2005 (Oxford: Legenda, April 2008)
References[]
- ^ a b c d 'Martin McLaughlin. Sub-Faculty of Italian, Modern Languages, Oxford University', Italian at Oxford. (2007). Archived 2007-07-22 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 27 January 2008.
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