Dr Lachlan Hughes

Retained Lecturer in Italian

I work on the literature and music of late medieval Italy, in particular the works of Dante Alighieri and traditions of vernacular song in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Beyond Dante Studies, I am also interested in the music and poetry of the Italian ars nova.

Publications

Vita nova XV [8]’, in Dante’s ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Zygmunt G. Barański and Heather Webb, William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature (Notre Dame University Press, 2023), pp. 132–38.

‘Dante's Arethusa and the Art of Transition’, Modern Language Review, 118.4 (2023), 482–95.

‘“Le note di questa comedìa”: Music and Metapoesis in Inferno 16’, Annali d’Italianistica, 39 (2021), 229–45.

‘Italy at Work: Representations of Labour in Italian Culture’, Notes in Italian Studies, 1 (2021), 5–8 [editors' introduction, co-authored with Bianca Rita Cataldi and Claudia Dellacasa].

Review of George Corbett, Dante's Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Contexts, in Modern Language Review, 116.3 (2021), 505–07.

Dr Lachlan Hughes

Retained Lecturer in Italian

I work on the literature and music of late medieval Italy, in particular the works of Dante Alighieri and traditions of vernacular song in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Beyond Dante Studies, I am also interested in the music and poetry of the Italian ars nova.

Publications

Vita nova XV [8]’, in Dante’s ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Zygmunt G. Barański and Heather Webb, William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante and Medieval Italian Literature (Notre Dame University Press, 2023), pp. 132–38.

‘Dante's Arethusa and the Art of Transition’, Modern Language Review, 118.4 (2023), 482–95.

‘“Le note di questa comedìa”: Music and Metapoesis in Inferno 16’, Annali d’Italianistica, 39 (2021), 229–45.

‘Italy at Work: Representations of Labour in Italian Culture’, Notes in Italian Studies, 1 (2021), 5–8 [editors' introduction, co-authored with Bianca Rita Cataldi and Claudia Dellacasa].

Review of George Corbett, Dante's Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Contexts, in Modern Language Review, 116.3 (2021), 505–07.