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
An overview of modernist women's fiction by focusing on four key writers: Katherine Mansfield, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein and Djuna Barnes. We will investigate their short stories as a privileged space of literary innovation.