HELENA SANSON Modern & Medieval Languages
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Modern and Medieval Languages
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Fellow and Director of Studies
University positions
Professor of Italian, History of Linguistics and Women's Studies
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Biography
Professor Sanson鈥檚 interdisciplinary research focuses on the history of the Italian language, literature and culture in Italy, between the Renaissance and the post-Unification period. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the history of linguistic thought and the history of women, as representative of the less learned, as well as in the role of women writers and women readers, in the same period. Among Professor Sanson鈥檚 other strands of interest are conduct literature for and about women, the history of translation in Italy and the role of women translators in the circulation of new ideas, and the popularization and dissemination of knowledge in Italy.