CONTACT INFORMATION:

Lecturer in Italian
Co-Director of the Leeds Centre for Dante Studies 
Department of Italian 
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9JT
UK
 

Office Telephone:	Office Telephone: +44 (0)113 343 7846
Office Fax:
Active email:	m.treherne@leeds.ac.uk
Relevant Webpage:	http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/staff/matthew_treherne.htm

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:

Current area(s) of research:

Dante, Tasso, religious art. 

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
 

Dante and the Liturgical Imagination (in progress)

Dante's "Commedia": Theology as Poetry, co-edited with Vittorio Montemaggi (University of Notre Dame Press, forthcoming)

Forms of Faith in Italian Renaissance Culture, co-edited with Abigail Brundin (Ashgate, forthcoming)

"Ekphrasis and Eucharist: The Poetics of Seeing God’s Art in Purgatorio X," The Italianist 26 (2) (2006), 177-95

"Pictorial Space and Sacred Time: Tasso's Le lagrime della beata vergine and the Experience of Religious Art in the Counter-Reformation," Italian Studies 26.1 (2007), 5-25

"Problems of Pastoral Tragicomedy: Il pastor fido and its Early Critical Reception," in Tragicomedy in the Age of Shakespeare: English and European Traditions, eds Raphael Lyne and Subha Mukherji (Boydell and Brewer, 2007), pp. 28-42
 

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:

History of the Medieval Book:

Medieval Chronicle Studies:
 

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
 

STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:

MA module on Theologus-poeta: Dante and Medieval Theology

Undergraduate Courses on Dante, Inferno; and Dante, Purgatorio and Paradiso 

MEDIEVAL COURSES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED: