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Research interests
My current monograph project on 'The Renaissance Decameron' will be a comprehensive study of the printed tradition of Boccaccio's major work in the 16th century, shedding new light on the mechanisms by which the Decameron achieved its current position in the canon of world literature, and enriching our understanding of early print culture and Renaissance reading publics.
My principal research interests are in medieval and Renaissance culture, reception studies, and the history of the book. I am particularly interested in the sociology of the text: finding ways of using the material form of manuscripts and printed books to (re)construct histories of reading and book production techniques. My first monograph, Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520, pioneered the application of the study of the physical form and presentation of books to Boccaccio studies. I am co-editor of the Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio.
I co-founder and co-director of the Centre for Material Texts.
I would be delighted to discuss proposals for postgraduate research projects in the fields of medieval and early modern Italian literature and culture, history of the book and reception studies.
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Projects
- 1 Finished
Research Output
Italian Material Cultures
Daniels, R. J., O'Connor, A. & Tycz, K., 26 May 2020, In : Italian Studies. 75, 2, p. 155-75 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
Printing Petrarch in the Mid-Cinquecento: Giolito, Vellutello and Collaborative Authorship
Daniels, R., 10 Jan 2020, In : Italian Studies. 75, 1, 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal)
The Tale of Calandrino and the Stolen Pig (VIII. 6)
Daniels, R., Jul 2020, The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective. Robins, W. (ed.). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, p. 129-47 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
Prizes
Faculty of Arts Rising Star Award
Daniels, Rhiannon J (Recipient), 23 Jun 2014
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
Dante Lecture Series, University College Cork
Rhiannon J Daniels (Participant)
11 Feb 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
University of Pennsylvania
Rhiannon J Daniels (Visiting researcher)
21 Jan 2019 → 25 Jan 2019
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and Center for Italian Studies Fellowship in Italian Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Rhiannon J Daniels (Participant)
24 Jan 2019
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk
Supervised Work
Transforming Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Vernacular Translation and Print Culture in Renaissance Italy
Author: Balzi, M., 23 Jun 2020Supervisor: Tucker, H. (Supervisor) & Daniels, R. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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