Professor John Took

Professor of Dante Studies

email: j.took@ucl.ac.uk
phone: +44 20 7679 1336
internal-phone: 31336

Office Hours: I am generally available to see students without an appointment on Tuesdays at 4pm and on Wednesdays at 1pm or shortly afterwards, though occasionally this may not be possible.  To make an appointment at other times, email me on my email address above.

Professor Took is Senior Editor of the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities Imprint for publication of research monographs

Research areas: Italian literature and medieval philosophy and theology

Publications include:

  • L'etterno piacer: aesthetic ideas in Dante (1984)
  • Dante Lyric Poet and Philosopher : an Introduction to the Minor Works of Dante (1990)
  • Dante's Phenomenology of Being (2000)
  • Il Fiore: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary, (2004).

Further information and a full list of publications are available on IRIS