Frances Clemente

Frances Clemente holds a double degree in Humanities and Italian Studies at the University of Pisa and a MSt in Modern Languages (Italian) at the University of Oxford, which was fully funded by the Modern Languages and Pembroke College Full Scholarship. She was visiting student at the Sorbonne University (Paris-IV) and at Warwick University. Her research interests include Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Italian Culture and Literature, Comparative Literature, Queer Studies, Leopardi Studies, Neapolitan Culture. Her DPhil project, fully funded by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP Studentship, the Baillie Gifford Scholarship and the Clarendon Fund Scholarship, deals with the investigation of the notion of ecstasy in Italian culture and literature between 1861 and 1914, looking at phenomena such as mystical raptures, magnetic ecstasies, hysterical extases, hypnotic trances, mediumistic trances, orgasms, artistic frenzies.