Italian Literature and Culture (MA)
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Dr. C. van den Bergh
Carmen Van den Bergh is assistant professor in Italian Literature at the Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) where she is director of the Italian Language and Culture Department and track leader for Italian in the MA Literary Studies. Her research specializations are Italian ‘modernism’, prose writings during the Italian interwar, (neo)realism in film and literature and more. View her full profile here.
Dr. E.J.M. Grootveld
Emma Grootveld is a University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. Her work focusses primarily on interdiscursive and imperialist dynamics in the epic tradition of the Renaissance. Other projects concern a translation of Luca Pacioli’s mathematical treatise "De divina proportione"; Dante and Primo Levi; literary representations of the Mediterranean and hydrocriticism. View her full profile here.