Dr Aistė Kiltinavičiūtė

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After studying for her BA (English, 2017) and her MPhil (European, Latin American and Comparative Literatures and Cultures, 2018) at the University of Cambridge, Aistė completed her PhD in Italian at Cambridge under the direction of Prof. Heather Webb in 2022.

In 2022, she was Research Fellow at Vilnius University and Affiliated Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. Aistė is currently IRC Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Cork, where she is working on her first monograph, based on her PhD research. 

Her research interests include dream and visionary literature, the illuminations and illustrations of Dante’s Comedy, and the interconnections between English and Italian literary traditions.

PUBLICATIONS

Peer-reviewed articles

  • ‘(Extra)ordinary Sensation and Visionary Perception in Dante’s Purgatorio 15 and 17,’ Italian Studies, 78.3 (2023), forthcoming.
  • ‘Rapture and Visionary Violence in Dante’s Purgatorio 9,’ Annali d’Italianistica, 39 (2021), 247‑
  • ‘Sensation (Un)bound: Literary Synaesthesia and Cross‑Sensory Perception in Dante’s Purgatorio 24,’ Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies, 3 (2020), 86‑

Book chapter

  • ‘Vita nova XXIX [19.4–19.7],’ in Dante’s Vita nova: A Collaborative Reading, ed. Zygmunt Barański and Heather Webb (Notre Dame University Press), 269‑77, forthcoming.