Francesca Southerden

Francesca Southerden is Associate Professor of Medieval Italian at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Somerville College. She is author of Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012) and has published a number of articles on the relationship between language, desire, and subjectivity in the works of Dante and Petrarch, her current area of specialization. Her research interests also include the nature of lyric from the Middle Ages to the present, the philosophy of language, critical theory, and psychoanalysis.