CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of Italian
Department of Italian
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
| Office Telephone: | + 44 (0)113 343 3635 |
| Office Fax: | + 44 (0)113 343 3634 |
| Active email: | c.m.keen@leeds.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/staff.html |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Dante
medieval Italian lyric
medieval Florentine chronicles
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Catherine Keen, 'Sex and the medieval city: viewing the body politic from exile in early Italian verse', in Troubled Vision: Gender, Sexuality and Sight in Medieval Text and Image, ed. E. Campbell and R. Mills, Palgrave Macmillan (New Middle Ages series), 2004 (spring).
Catherine Keen, Dante and the City. Tempus, 2003 (Monograph).
Catherine Keen, 'Cino da Pistoia and the Otherness of exile', Annali d'italianistica, vol. 20 (2002), pp. 89-112.
Catherine Keen, 'Images of exile: distance and memory in the poetry of Cino da Pistoia', Italian Studies, vol. 55 (2000), pp. 21-36.
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Research interests in Dante's views on origins of language and linguistic diversity
(especially in De vulgari eloquentia, Commedia);
in ideas about multilingualism/monolingualism in lyric verse on theme of exile. (I have published on both of these areas.)
History of the Medieval Book:
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
Research interests in medieval Florentine historiography and political ideology - especially in the chronicles of Compagni and Giovanni Villani.
I am also interested in the role of historiographic traditions in works such as Dante's Comedy and the early commentary tradition, and in a range of prose and poetic works e.g. Brunetto Latini's Tresor, Guittone d'Arezzo's political verse and letters, dictaminal and rhetorical texts.
(I have published on connections between Dante, Compagni and Villani, and am currently working on a further article on Villani.)
Other Possible Themes:
The categories Nature/Culture in the middle ages
Travel (including pilgrimage and exile)
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Marianne O'Doherty: 'Transmission, reception and use of information about and ideas of the Indies in Europe, c. 1250-1450'
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in exchange of PhD students, staff exchanges with WUN partner institutions, and in development of online research resources - where appropriate.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
'Representing Women in Medieval Literature' (contribute 3 out of 10 classes to interdisciplinary module taught by Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds)
MEDIEVAL COURSES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED:
Masters-level Dante courses
course on Medieval Margins
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