Maria Clotilde Camboni

Maria Clotilde Camboni is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. She holds a PhD and Laurea in Italian Studies from the University of Pisa. Her research focuses on the evolution of medieval Italian vernacular literary traditions and their Renaissance reinterpretations. Previously, she held the Marco Praloran postdoctoral fellowship (2013-2015) at Florence’s Franceschini Foundation and Lausanne University, and the Le Studium fellowship at Tours’ Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (2016-2017). She taught full-time at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand and collaborated on projects across Italian and Swiss institutions.

Her work bridges textual analysis, cultural history, and interdisciplinary approaches to medieval and Renaissance Italian literature. Key interests include poetic form, manuscript culture, and the construction of literary canons. Recent publications explore the Raccolta Aragonese’s role in shaping Renaissance literary discourse and Boccaccio’s Decameron’s narrative techniques. She has contributed to peer-reviewed journals like Modern Language Notes and Studi mediolatini e volgari, with monographs on medieval poetic perception and intertextuality.

Awards include the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (current), Marco Praloran fellowship, and Le Studium fellowship. Her research often involves collaborative projects, such as semantic indexing studies using the Nuovo Soggettario framework. She is also engaged in digital humanities initiatives, blending traditional philology with modern analytical tools.