Professor Dr. Giulia Boitani

Biography

Giulia Boitani is a medievalist and an affiliated lecturer at King's College, University of Cambridge. She has a profound interest in medieval Romance literature, focusing particularly on medieval French, Occitan, and Italian texts. Her recent research examines the role of foundresses in medieval French prose romances, exploring how these narratives reflect contemporary ideas about gender, power dynamics, and genealogical mappings of time and space. Giulia is also interested in the cultural contexts of manuscript production, especially during the 14th and 15th centuries, and how these contexts shape the construction of lyrical voices and subjectivities within Romance languages. She actively engages with critical practices that relate to medieval thought, having conducted research on Foucauldian genealogies within medieval prose, particularly in the context of Tristan narratives. Giulia obtained her BA and MA in Romance philology and literature from the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, followed by postgraduate studies at the University of Cambridge in 2016. She has been awarded the Society for French Studies Prize and served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2020. Her recent projects include 'Family Ties: Women and Genealogy in Medieval French Prose Romances.'

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