Gabrielle Russo

MSt (Oxon)

College roles

Skilliter Centre Postgraduate Researcher

Biography

Gabrielle is a third-year PhD student in ninth-century Arabic literature at Newnham College, University of Cambridge. Gabrielle’s research centres on the construction of praise writing for the Turkic military, with particular attention to al-Jāḥiẓ’s epistle The Merits of the Turks and the poetry of al-Buḥturī.

Prior to studying at Cambridge, Gabrielle received an MSt in Comparative Literature and Critical Translation at the University of Oxford and completed a thesis entitled ‘“The world you saw was real,” Reader: Approaching the Formalisation of the Everyday in Nâzım Hikmet’s “Rubailer” through Ibn Ḥajar’s Maqāṭīʿ.’ This project investigated the potential of transhistorical comparison to develop thought on Hikmet’s Turkish poetry through dialogue with fourteenth/fifteenth-century Arabic poetry.