Staff and other profiles

Academic & Teaching staff

Claire Honess, Professor of Italian Studies/Head of School

+44 (0) 113 343 3631

Dante and his use of political ideas and imagery, medieval political poetry, modern Italian writers. View full profile

Chiara La Sala, Teaching Fellow

+44 (0) 113 343 3637

My research interests include the relationship between standard Italian and local or regional varieties spoken in Italy. View full profile

Alan O'Leary, Senior Lecturer

+44 (0)113 343 3633

Alan is a specialist in Italian cultural studies and popular cinema. His previous research was on terrorism in Italian cinema. View full profile

Anna Pegoretti, Newton International Fellow

0113 3438868

Anna Pegoretti holds a prestigious Newton International Fellowship in the Department of Italian and the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies View full profile

Brian Richardson, Professor of Italian Language

+44 (0) 113 343 3632

The late Middle Ages and Renaissance, the development of the Italian language, the history of the circulation of texts. View full profile

Massimo Rospocher, Post-doctoral Fellow

Post-doctoral Fellow on the "Italian Voices" project View full profile

Olivia Santovetti, Lecturer

+44 (0)113 343 3635

Eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian authors; theory of the novel; self-reflexivity in Italian literature. View full profile

Chiara Sbordoni, Post-doctoral Fellow

Research Fellow on the Italian Voices Project View full profile

Gigliola Sulis, Lecturer in Italian

+44 (0) 113 343 3639

Multilingual literature, regional and dialect literatures, twentieth-century fiction (especially the contemporary novel). View full profile