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Dr Valentina Mele

Dr Valentina Mele

  • Position: British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
  • Areas of expertise: Poetry Translation and Literary Translation; Medieval Italian Lyric; Anglo-American Modernism; Italian Literature; Modern Philology; 20th Century American Poetry
  • Email: V.Mele@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: LG.09 Michael Sadler Building

Profile

I joined the University of Leeds as British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in 2022.

I obtained my Mst at the University of Oxford (2016) and my PhD at the University of Cambridge (2016-2020), before undertaking an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship at University College Cork (2020-2022).

Research interests

My current research is focused on the reception of Dante and the Duecento poetry and culture in the poets of the Berkeley Renaissance.

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Qualifications

  • PhD Italian Studies
  • Mst Medieval and Modern Languages
  • MA Modern Philology
  • BA Italian Studies

Professional memberships

  • Associate Director, Leeds Centre for Dante Studies
  • Co-Director, Centre for Dante Studies in Ireland

Research groups and institutes

  • Translation
  • Leeds Centre for Dante Studies