Copyright

George Corbett; Heather Webb

Published On

2015-09-01

Page Range

pp. 1-12

Language

  • English

Print Length

11 pages

Introduction

Chapter of: Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 1 (pp. 1–12)

Contributors

George Corbett

(author)
Junior Research Fellow of Trinity College at University of Cambridge
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7043-3253

George Corbett is Junior Research Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge and Affiliated Lecturer of the Department of Italian, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Dante and Epicurus: A Dualistic Vision of Secular and Spiritual Fulfilment (2013), and is co-organiser, with Heather Webb, of the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's 'Comedy' lecture series. He was recently appointed Lecturer in Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews.

Heather Webb

(author)
University Lecturer in Medieval Italian Literature at University of Cambridge

Heather Webb is University Lecturer in Medieval Italian Literature at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Selwyn College. She is the author of The Medieval Heart (2010) and articles on Dante, Catherine of Siena and others. She is co-organiser, with George Corbett, of the Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante's 'Comedy' lecture series. She is co-editor, with Pierpaolo Antonello, of Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism (2015).