Professor Charlotte Ross SFHEA
College Lecturer in Italian
Professor of Italian and Gender Studies
Tutorial Fellow, Christ Church
Education
BA (Cambridge), MSt (Oxford), PhD (Warwick)
Charlotte Ross has a BA (Honours) in Italian and English from Newnham College, Cambridge, an MSt. in Italian Studies from Balliol College, Oxford, and a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Warwick. Before joining the Faculty of Modern Languages at Oxford, she was Reader in Sexuality, Gender and Cultural Studies in the Department of Modern Languages, University of Birmingham. She has held visiting professorships at the University of Palermo (2015) and the University of Toronto (Goggio Visiting Professor, 2023).
Charlotte teaches on a range of topics across 19th, 20th and 21st century Italian literature and culture. She is interested in hearing from graduate students who would like to work on questions of gender and sexuality in these periods, including those whose proposed projects are interdisciplinary in nature.
Charlotte’s research analyses cultural discourses of gender, sexuality and embodiment; the ways in which our gendered, sexed and sexual selves are constructed, narrated, represented, and de/re-constructed through counter-hegemonic discourses and practices. She has focused on LGBTQ+ individuals, communities, cultures and practices, predominantly in Italian culture, from the 19th century to the present day. Recently, she has begun to work more comparatively, tracing cross-cultural dialogues and resonances between Italian, French and British texts, for example. Her work is interdisciplinary, ranging across literary study, critical approaches to cultural discourses more broadly, including film and media, and ethnographic analysis of lived experience. She is the author of two monographs, co-editor of several edited collections of essays and her articles have been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals, such as Italian Studies, Italian Culture, Modern Language Review, Modern Italy. Her work has been funded by grants from the British Academy, the AHRC and the Leverhulme Trust. She is currently Senior Co-Editor of the journal Italian Studies.