Category Archives: Research Portraits

Research Portrait: Re-writing Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the Italian Renaissance

Posted on January 26, 2018 by Katie Brown

Today’s Research Portrait comes from one of our postgraduate members, Marta Balzi, who recently organised the Ovid Across Europe conference here at Bristol. Marta works on how Ovid’s Metamorphoses were translated, published and re-imagined in Renaissance Italy. In this post, she introduces … Continue reading →

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Research Portraits: Romantic albums, poetry, and print

Posted on January 11, 2018 by Katie Brown

In this Research Portraits series, we want to introduce you to the work of some of our Centre for Material Texts members. Today, Dr Samantha Matthews, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Bristol introduces her current research into the … Continue reading →

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Research Portraits: Launch of the digitised AWA magazine

Posted on November 30, 2017 by Katie Brown

As part of our new series of research portraits, Dr Ruth Bush (Lecturer in French, Member of the Centre for Material Texts) writes about the recent launch of a digitised version of one of the earliest independent francophone African magazines, AWA: la revue de la femme … Continue reading →

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