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DIFFLEY, PAUL
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EDUCATION & ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS: Archbishop's Secondary Modern School then Simon Langton Grammar School, Canterbury, Kent; Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1976; Cecil Roth Memorial Prize for Italian Studies, University of Oxford, 1979; BA, First Class Honours in French and Italian, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1980; MA in Medieval and Modern Languages, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1983; Senior Paget Toynbee Prize for the Study of the Works of Dante, University of Oxford, 1984; D.Phil in Medieval and Modern Languages, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1986; British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow, 1986-89; LTCL (Licentiate of Trinity College, London) Piano Teaching Diploma, July 1991.
EMPLOYMENT: POSTS HELD: Assistant Organist & Choirmaster, St Dunstan's Parish Church, Canterbury, 1971-76; Organist & Choirmaster, Wickhambreux Parish Church, Kent, 1971-76; Music Critic, Oxford Mail, 1979-89; Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College, Oxford, 1983-86; British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, 1986-89; Examiner, Oxford Board, A Level Italian, 1984-89; Lecturer in Italian, Christ Church, Oxford, 1989-90; Organist, Iffley Parish Church, Oxford, 1991-96; Lecturer in Italian and Course Director for the External Degree in Italian, Royal Holloway, University of London, 1992-96; Professor of Italian, University of Exeter, 1996- (Head of Italian Department, 1997-2002); External Examiner in Italian Studies (BA, MA and Ph.D), Universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Dublin (University College), Glasgow, Leeds, London (Royal Holloway College and University College), Oxford, Reading; Member of Faculty of Archaeology, History and Letters, British School at Rome sponsored by the British Academy; Editor for the periodical Italian Studies, the Oxford Companion to Italian Literature, and reader for various academic publishers (OUP and CUP etc.).
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Italian Renaissance and Baroque Language and Literature; Questione della lingua; Dante Alighieri; St Catherine of Siena; the 'novella' in the Renaissance; Matteo Maria Boiardo; Pietro Bembo; Marguerite de Navarre; Luigi Alamanni; Antoine le Maçon; Sperone Speroni; Giovanni della Casa; Torquato Tasso; Paolo Beni; Alessandro Tassoni; Giulio Ottonelli; Pietro della Valle; Vincenzo Monti; Giulio Perticari; Elio Vittorini; Giorgio Bassani; Primo Levi; Luciano Bianciardi; Antonio Tabucchi; Franco Buffoni; Translation Studies. |
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