Dr Francesca Magnabosco
I started teaching Renaissance literature at Pembroke after completing my DPhil at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. I am interested in the theme of wonder and the marvellous in both Medieval and Renaissance literature, and their relationship with classical literature. Poetry has been my main area of research, especially when close to gnoseological enquiry.
Francesca obtained her BA and MPhil from Turin University (Italy), and her DPhil in Italian literature from the University of Oxford. She now teaches Italian (language, literature and cinema) at Pembroke College and the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. She has also recently started writing for children. She has been working on a children adaptation of the Italian epic poem Orlando furioso, a picture book, and a middle grade novel. She lives in Oxford with her husband and their two children.
I published a travel diary on Brazil, included in the suggested reading of the Lonely Planet guide Brasile (2008): Canto a due voci. Viaggio in Brasile (co-author Francesco Conte), ed. affinità elettive, 2007. I also published poems in Italian literary magazines, and have produced translations of the poetry of Alice Oswald and Jonathan Galassi for the journal Nuovi Argomenti (2015, 2016).
Dr Francesca Magnabosco
I started teaching Renaissance literature at Pembroke after completing my DPhil at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. I am interested in the theme of wonder and the marvellous in both Medieval and Renaissance literature, and their relationship with classical literature. Poetry has been my main area of research, especially when close to gnoseological enquiry.
Francesca obtained her BA and MPhil from Turin University (Italy), and her DPhil in Italian literature from the University of Oxford. She now teaches Italian (language, literature and cinema) at Pembroke College and the Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford. She has also recently started writing for children. She has been working on a children adaptation of the Italian epic poem Orlando furioso, a picture book, and a middle grade novel. She lives in Oxford with her husband and their two children.
I published a travel diary on Brazil, included in the suggested reading of the Lonely Planet guide Brasile (2008): Canto a due voci. Viaggio in Brasile (co-author Francesco Conte), ed. affinità elettive, 2007. I also published poems in Italian literary magazines, and have produced translations of the poetry of Alice Oswald and Jonathan Galassi for the journal Nuovi Argomenti (2015, 2016).