Professor Laura Lepschy
Professor Emeritus
Other affiliations: Professor, University of Toronto; Senior Fellow, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London; Honorary Fellow, Somerville College Oxford; Visiting Professor, University of Cambridge; Honorary Professor, University of Bangor.
Principal research interests: Late 19th and 20th century Italian literature, history of the Italian language, Renaissance culture and history of taste and travel literature, particularly relating to Venice.
Publications include
- Tintoretto Observed, Longo: Ravenna, 1983. Italian edition: Davanti a Tintoretto (1998)
- Narrativa e teatro fra due secoli, Marsilio: Venice, 1984.
- Varietà linguistiche e pluralità di codici nel Rinascimento (1996)
- The Italian Language Today, with G. Lepschy, Hutchinson: London, 1977. Italian edition: La lingua italiana, Bompiani: Milan, 1981.
- L'amanuense analfabeta e altri saggi, with G. Lepschy, Olschki, Florence, 1999.
- Co-editor, with S. Vanvolsem, Nell'officina del dizionario, Stuttgart, 2008.
- Freud and Italian Culture, with P. Barrotta and E. Bond, Peter Lang, Oxford, 2009.
Email: a.lepschy@ucl.ac.uk
