Kenneth Patrick Clarke

Professor Kenneth Patrick Clarke serves as Professor in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, having previously held positions as Senior Lecturer and Anniversary Research Lecturer within the same department.

• Educational Background: Undergraduate and graduate studies completed at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Bologna, and the University of Oxford; College Lecturer in Old and Middle English at Brasenose College, Oxford; Keith Sykes Research Fellow in Italian Studies at Pembroke College, Cambridge.

His research specializes in late medieval Italian literature with concentrated expertise on Dante Alighieri and Giovanni Boccaccio, examining manuscript production, scribal annotations, commentary traditions, and marginalia. Current projects include analysis of Boccaccio's Decameron manuscript (MS Plut. 42,1) and fourteenth-century Dante commentary traditions.

Analysis of his 2023-2024 publications reveals sustained scholarly engagement with Dante's Divine Comedy through comprehensive reading guides and collaborative textual analyses, alongside significant contributions to Boccaccio studies through manuscript-focused scholarship that explores authorial presentation and scribal intervention in textual transmission.

• Research Funding: Co-investigator on British Academy project 'Differunt tamen a magnis poetis': Dante and Medieval Latin Poetics (2023-2026); former researcher in Centre for Medieval Literature (2012-2018).
• Academic Service: Accepting PhD students; external examiner for doctoral theses on Dante's Commedia; organizer of outreach event 'Circling Translation' (2024); advisor at Biennial London Chaucer Conference (2019).

No scientific awards were documented in the provided institutional records.