Giulia Boitani

Dr. Giulia Boitani is an Affiliated Lecturer and College Teaching Officer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge, affiliated with King's College. She specializes in medieval Romance literatures and holds teaching responsibilities across French and Italian departments, supervising undergraduate courses including FR3, FR7, FR15, FR1, and IT1/ITA3, along with Year Abroad Projects.

Her research explores medieval French, Occitan, and Italian literature through interdisciplinary lenses including gender studies, manuscript culture, and contemporary critical theory. Key focuses include:

• Gendered genealogies in medieval prose romances
• Manuscript transmission in 14th-15th century contexts
• Lyric subjectivity across Romance languages
• Application of postmodern theory (Foucault, Barad) to medieval texts

Publication analysis reveals concentrated scholarship on:

• Narrative structures in Arthurian cycles
• Manuscript provenance studies
• Theoretical applications to medieval literature
• Cross-linguistic literary developments

Awards and Fellowships:

• Society for French Studies Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship (2020)