Tutor information
Mariachiara Leteo
Mariachiara has done her DPhil in English at Oxford with a comparative literature project focused on English and Italian modernism. During her DPhil, she has been an active member of the Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation research centre, which she still follows, and whose lively discussion group she ran for two years. She currently gives tutorials in English and comparative literature at Oxford while she prepares her first monograph, Poetic Effects in Prose: Virginia Woolf and Emilio Cecchi.
Courses
A thorough exploration of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels, whose outspoken critique of modern Italian society raises global, philosophical questions about the integrity of identity, reality and truth.
A compelling introduction to comparative literature in which you will explore side by side two best-selling contemporary writers from different cultures, but of global appeal, whose novels converge in testing the boundaries between self, other, and world.