Martin McLaughlin (academic)

Martin L. McLaughlin was Professor of Italian and Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford from 2001 to 2017 where he was also a Fellow of Magdalen College.

[1] He published academic papers and is the English translator of Umberto Eco's On Literature and Italo Calvino's Hermit in Paris.

McLaughlin's research interests include Italian Renaissance literature, Renaissance humanism, Renaissance literary theory, Renaissance biography, Alberti, Petrarch, Poliziano, Tasso, the classical legacy in Italian literature, contemporary Italian Fiction, Italo Calvino, Andrea De Carlo, and translation studies.

[1] He taught Italian language and literature, especially Dante, Renaissance literature from Petrarch to Tasso, post-war fiction especially Calvino, the Italian short story, and translation studies.

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