Ms Giulia Boitani

Giulia’s is a medieval literary scholar whose interests span across medieval Romance literature, particularly medieval French, Occitan and Italian.  Her recent research focuses on the role of foundresses in medieval French prose romances, and what these immense texts might tell us about contemporary ideas of gender, power relationships, and genealogy. She is also interested at looking at the different manuscript and cultural contexts  – especially from the 14th and 15th century – that shape a medieval text; in the construction of lyric voices and subjectivities across the Romance languages; and the ways in which current critical practices might engage with medieval thought. She has written on Foucauldian genealogies and the medieval prose Tristan, and is now looking at intersections between the Baradian notion of ‘intra-action’ and the conception of time in Grail narratives.

Giulia obtained her BA and MA in Romance philology and literature at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, and pursued her postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 2016. She was a Society for French Studies Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in 2020, taking up her position at Cambridge, and worked as a postdoctoral researcher in La Sapienza in 2021.