Dr Rebecca Bowen
I work on medieval Italian poetry, the lyric tradition, and the works of Dante and Boccaccio. I am particularly interested in classical reception and the interrelations between literature and visual art.
My doctoral thesis, 'Figures of Love: Amor from Antiquity to the Italian Middle Ages', explored the history and development of personifications of love from classical Latin to medieval Italian poetry, looking at visual as well as literary culture to trace the tendrils of tradition that led Amor (in his many guises) through Late Antiquity into the European Middle Ages.
My current research investigates the depiction of love in the early stages of the Italian Renaissance, focusing on early illuminated manuscripts of Boccaccio’s works to discover the interconnections and discrepancies between the depictions of love in his texts and the iconographic programmes accompanying them.
‘Denuding Amore: Personification and Poetics’, in The ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Z. Barański, D. Bowe, and H. Webb (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming).
‘Thoughts of Love: Literary Influence and Authority’ in The ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Z. Barański, D. Bowe, and H. Webb (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming).
‘Review: Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante by David Bowe’, L'Alighieri. Rassegna dantesca, forthcoming Vol. 58, No. 2 (2021).
‘Review: Dante's Tears: The Poetics of Weeping from 'Vita Nuova' to the 'Commedia' by Rossana Fenu Barbera’, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 115, No. 2 (April 2020), pp. 476-477.
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz
Co-founder of the PERLEGO Research Network, an international network devoted to expanding critical discourse on text and image studies: https://www.perlegonetwork.com/
Dr Rebecca Bowen
I work on medieval Italian poetry, the lyric tradition, and the works of Dante and Boccaccio. I am particularly interested in classical reception and the interrelations between literature and visual art.
My doctoral thesis, 'Figures of Love: Amor from Antiquity to the Italian Middle Ages', explored the history and development of personifications of love from classical Latin to medieval Italian poetry, looking at visual as well as literary culture to trace the tendrils of tradition that led Amor (in his many guises) through Late Antiquity into the European Middle Ages.
My current research investigates the depiction of love in the early stages of the Italian Renaissance, focusing on early illuminated manuscripts of Boccaccio’s works to discover the interconnections and discrepancies between the depictions of love in his texts and the iconographic programmes accompanying them.
‘Denuding Amore: Personification and Poetics’, in The ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Z. Barański, D. Bowe, and H. Webb (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming).
‘Thoughts of Love: Literary Influence and Authority’ in The ‘Vita nova’: A Collaborative Reading, ed. by Z. Barański, D. Bowe, and H. Webb (Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, forthcoming).
‘Review: Poetry in Dialogue in the Duecento and Dante by David Bowe’, L'Alighieri. Rassegna dantesca, forthcoming Vol. 58, No. 2 (2021).
‘Review: Dante's Tears: The Poetics of Weeping from 'Vita Nuova' to the 'Commedia' by Rossana Fenu Barbera’, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 115, No. 2 (April 2020), pp. 476-477.
Postdoctoral Fellow at the Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz
Co-founder of the PERLEGO Research Network, an international network devoted to expanding critical discourse on text and image studies: https://www.perlegonetwork.com/