Giulia Boitani
Official Fellow in Modern and Medieval Languages (French, Occitane and Italian)
Dr Giulia Boitani is a College Teaching Officer in French and Italian at King’s, and the Director of Studies for our First Years.
"I work on medieval literature across Romance languages, particularly medieval French, Occitan and Italian. My recent research focuses on the role of foundresses in medieval French prose romances, but I also look at medieval manuscripts and their particular idiosyncrasies (every single manuscript of any given medieval text is different!); representations of food and feeding in medieval literature; and the ways in which current critical practices – particularly eco-critical approaches - might engage with medieval thought.
I teach Introduction to French literature, film and thought (FR1) and Introduction to Italian Texts and Contexts (IT1/ITA3) in the first year; Medieval French Literature (FR3), and Translation and Oral Italian (ITB2) in the second, and medieval French and Occitan literature (FR7, FR15) in the fourth year; as well as paleography courses for our MPhil in in European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures (ELAC)."