K P Clarke
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K P Clarke, M.A., M.Phil. (Dubl); M.A. (Cantab); M.A., D.Phil. (Oxon)

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Employment:
2012—pres.: Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Dept. of English & Related Literature, University of York (During 2012–2015: Anniversary Research Lecturer; 2015-2017: Lecturer).

2008—2012: Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies, Pembroke College, Cambridge

2007—2008: College Lecturer in Old and Middle English Literature, Brasenose College, Oxford


Education:
2003—2007: D.Phil. candidate, University College and the English Faculty, University of Oxford.
Thesis: “I shal fynde it in a maner glose: Commentary and Hermeneutics, Chaucer and His Italian Sources”; supervisor: Prof. Vincent Gillespie; viva: 19 July 2007; examiners: Dr Simon Horobin (Magdalen College, Oxford), Prof. Robin Kirkpatrick (Robinson College, Cambridge). Leave to supplicate granted on 14th August 2007.

2005: Istituto di Studi Umanistici (Univ. di Firenze); awarded bursary to participate in seminar, ‘Metodi e prospettive di storia della tradizione e critica dei testi’.

2001—2002: Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Trinity College, Dublin. M.Phil. Medieval Language, Literature, and Culture

2000: University College, Cork - Dept. of Ancient Classics. Summer School in Latin

1996—2001: Trinity College, Dublin. B.A. (Mod): History of Art & Architecture and Italian Studies; Mod II thesis: ‘The Fourteenth-Century Development & Economic Expansion of the Charterhouse of Padula (SA)’.

1997—1998: Erasmus Exchange, Università degli Studi di Bologna. Storia dell’architettura italiana (Lenzi); Storia della letteratura italiana (Lorenzini); Storia dell’arte (Fortunati)

1999—2000: External Auditor, Università degli Studi di Bologna. Filologia dantesca (Branca Delcorno/Ledda)


Awards: 
2004—2006: Wingate Scholar

2004—2006: AHRB Doctoral Award

Membership:
New Chaucer Society; 
Dante Society of America; 
American Boccaccio Association;
Modern Humanities Research Association

Committee Membership:
Society for the Study of Medieval Language and Literature

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Papers & Presentations

Nov 2021: ‘Inferno 1: Openings and Beginnings’, Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana (St Andrews Dante Lecture Series), University of St Andrews

Dec 2019: ‘Italian’, in a colloquium Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages, Princeton University and Institute for Advanced Studies.

Jun 2019: ‘Medieval Humanism and Vernacular Poetics: Chaucer, Ovid, and Ceffi’; Biennial London Chaucer Conference.

Feb 2019: ‘Dante’s Vita nuova XXXVI-XXXVII’; Re-reading Dante’s Vita nova, University of Warwick.

Nov 2018: ‘Dante and the Work of Words: A Poetic Lexicon of the Comedy’; Fondazione Ezio Franceschini Seminario di Filologia romanza, Florence.

May 2017: ‘Rubrics and Reception: Boccaccio’s Dante’; Congresso Dantesco Internazionale​, Ravenna, Italy.

Feb 2017: ‘Horrid Perhapses: The Poetics of Doubt in Dante’; Lectura Dantis, Dept. of Italian, University College Cork.
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Apr 2016: ‘Boccaccio and His Comedy: Rubricating the Poem in MS Chig. L. VI. 213’; Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference, Trinity College, Dublin.

Mar 2016: ‘Making It Go Further: Money, Sex, and Love in Decameron 8.1’; Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Boston. Also co-organized, with Prof. Sebastiana Nobili (Bologna) a session on the Genealogie Gentilium Deorum and the Decameron.

Dec 2015: ‘Lectura Dantis’, Trinity College Dublin; invited to participate in a public reading of the Comedìa in celebration of the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth. [Listen to the podcasts here]

Sept 2015: ‘Chaucer and Dante’; Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana, University of St Andrew’s.

Mar 2015: ‘Decameron 5.10: Pietro di Vinciolo, His Wife, and Their Lover’; Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, Berlin.

Oct 2014: ‘Love and War: Boccaccio’s Filostrato’; Simpson Program in Medieval Studies 2014 Symposium, ‘The Rise of Vernacular Culture in Fourteenth-Century Florence’, University of Mary Washington.

Mar 2014: ‘Griselda’s Curious Husband: Petrarch, Boccaccio and Seniles 17’; Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, New York.

Feb 2014: ‘Sotto la qual rubrica: Pre-reading the Comedìa’; Oxford Dante Society, Trinity College, Oxford.

Nov 2013: ‘Humility and the (P)arts of Art: Inferno X, Purgatorio X, and Paradiso X’; Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy, Trinity College, Cambridge. [online]

Sept 2013: ‘Boccaccio and his First English Reader’; Boccaccio & Company: An Introduction to the Decameron, The British Library, Foyle Roome, Centre for Conservation.

Jul 2013: ‘Reading Boccaccio in 1384’; Locating Boccaccio in 2013, University of Manchester.

Jun 2013: ‘Le resistenze di Griselda’; Boccaccio in Europa, “La Sapienza” Università di Roma.

Apr 2013: ‘Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Berlin, SPK MS Hamilton 90’; Boccaccio at 700: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Binghampton University (New York). 

Mar 2013: ‘Visualizing Virtue: Renaissance Cassoni and Boccaccio’s Decameron’; UCL Italian Departmental Research Seminar, London. [pdf]
  
Jan 2013: ‘Chaucer and Italian Humanism’; Britain, Ireland and Italy: Cultural Exchanges, c.1270-c.1400, Centre for Medieval Studies, York.

Nov 2012: ‘Leggere il Decameron a margine del codice Mannelli’; Boccaccio e i suoi lettori. Una lunga ricezione. Bologna (Italy)[prog.]

July 2012: ‘Dante and Chaucer’s House of Fame’; New Chaucer Society Congress, Portland, Oregon (USA).

May 2012: ‘Chaucer’s Italian Humanism’; Medieval English Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford.

May 2012: ‘Griselda Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Petrarch, Boccaccio and Dante’; Italian Research Seminar, Italian Dept., Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, Cambridge.

Nov 2010: ‘Chaucer the Glossator?’, Medieval Reading Group, Cambridge.

Jul 2010: ‘Chaucer and Ceffi, Again’, New Chaucer Society, Siena.

Apr 2009: ‘Chaucer and Dante’, Dept of English, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.

Feb 2009: ‘Mastering the Story of Griselda: Word and Image in Fifteenth-Century Siena’; History of Art Postgraduate Seminar, Trinity College Dublin; Mar 2009, English Graduate Seminar, University of Cambridge. 

Nov 2008: ‘What Griselda Really Said, or What a Difference a Gloss Makes’; Magdalene Society of Medievalists, Cambridge.

Oct 2007: ‘Boccaccio’s Corbaccio and the Glosses in the Mannelli Codex’; Italian Faculty Research Seminar, Oxford.

Nov 2006: ‘Griselda Bites Back: Reading/Writing Griselda in Fourteenth-Century Italy’; Graduate Medieval Seminar English Faculty, Oxford

July 2006: ‘The Legend of Good Women and the Latin Glosses to the Heroides: Some Approaches’, New Chaucer Society Congress, New York, July 27-31, 2006.

Nov 2005: ‘Chaucer, Boccaccio and Dante’; Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, TCD.

May 2005: ‘Boccaccio’s Teseida and its commentary context’; 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo (MI).

Feb 2005: ‘Dante and Chaucer’s House of Fame’; Graduate Medieval Seminar, English Faculty, Oxford.

Feb 2004: ‘The Figure of the Book in Medieval Literature: Chaucer and Dante’; The Book as Artefact, Marsh’s Library, Dublin.

May 2003: ‘Macrobius and the Parliament of Fowls’; Literary Encounters in Medieval Europe: An Intertextual Approach, Trinity College, Dublin

April 2002: ‘From grant translateur to wise poete: Chaucer and his Italian sources’; Borderlines VI - Trinity College, Dublin.
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