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Name	University	Thesis title	Supervisor	Area	Email	Status
Cambridge				Top of page
Anderson, Edward M.	Cambridge, St John’s	Language, Style, and Ariosto's Legacy in Seventeenth Century Italian Musical Drama	Prof Patrick Boyde	Renaissance Studies		Completed
Baxter, Catherine	Cambridge	Languge and Sex in Boccaccio's Decameron: Galeotto fu la metafora	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Medieval Studies	cb430@cam.ac.uk
Carinci, Eleonora	Cambridge, St Catharine’s	‘Lives of the Virgin Mary’’’ by women writers in Post-Tridentine Italy	Dr Abigail Brundin	Renaissance Studies	ec328@cam.ac.uk
Corbett,  George Patrick	Cambridge	Dante's Moral Philosophy	Prof Robin Kirkpatrick	Medieval Studies	gpc29@cam.ac.uk
Cruschina, Silvio	Cambridge	Syntactic Features of the Sicilian Dialect	Dr Adam Ledgeway	Linguistics		Completed
De Donno, Fabrizio	Cambridge	Italian Orientalism	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Modern Literature	fd231@cam.ac.uk
Frost, Meera	Cambridge, St John’s	Italian Images of India between 1350 and 1650	Prof Patrick Boyde	Renaissance Studies	macf2@cam.ac.uk
Greenberg, Meg	Cambridge, Christ’s	Futurist Science: Filippo T. Marinetti’s Response to Biological, Technological, and Sociological Innovation	Dr Robert Gordon	Modern Literature		Completed
Harrison Heather	Cambridge, Wolfson	Gender and Authorship in Boccacio's Decameron	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Medieval Studies	hh282@cam.ac.uk
Hart, Victoria	Cambridge	Complementation in the dialects of the extreme South of Italy	Dr Adam Ledgeway	Linguistics	vh219@cam.ac.uk
Hooper, Laurence	Cambridge, Corpus Christi College	From Di Vulgari Eloquentia to the Commedia: The Continuities of Exile	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Medieval Studies		Completed
Ide, Eleanor	Cambridge, St Catharine’s	Masculinity in Italian Cinema, 1990-present	Prof Zygmunt Baranski and Dr R Gordon	Modern Literature	evi20@cam.ac.uk
Jones, Nicola	Cambridge, Corpus Christi	The Lure of the Short Courtly Tale in Later Medieval France and Italy	Dr Abigail Brundin	Medieval Studies		Completed
Kostylo, Joanna	Cambridge	The discourse of republicanism in early-modern Europe, with special reference to Venice and poland		Cultural Studies		Completed
Leone, Anne	Cambridge	Dante and Blood	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Medieval Studies	al419@cam.ac.uk
Macmillan, Alex	Cambridge, Clare Hall	Dante’s Nineteenth- Century Reception	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Medieval Studies		Completed
O'Leary, Alan	Cambridge, Wolfson	Cinematic Representations of Italian Post-War Terrorism	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Film Studies		Completed
Peverini-Benson, Claudia	Cambridge, St Catharine’s	Subject-Verb (non) Agreement: Syntactic Evidence from Marchigiano	Dr Adam Ledgeway	Linguistics	cp306@cam.ac.uk
Rees, Katie	Cambridge	Women Writers for the Theatre in Renaissance Italy	Dr Abigail Brundin	Renaissance Studies	kr249@cam.ac.uk
Ronchetti, Alessia	Cambridge, St John’s	Textual Spaces. Authority and the Place of Women in Boccaccio's and Chaucer's Works	Prof Robin Kirkpatrick	Medieval Studies	ar330@cam.ac.uk
Rossi, Daniela Giulia	Cambridge, Girton	Renaissance Culture: Writings of Religious and Secular Women	Dr Abigail Brundin	Renaissance Studies	djr51@cam.ac.uk
Traherne, Matthew	Cambrdige	Liturgical language in Dante and Tasso		Medieval Studies		Completed
Wallington, Katherine	Cambridge, St Catharine's	Carlo Goldoni and Lorenzo Da Ponte	Dr J Dashwood	Modern Literature	ktw22@cam.ac.uk
Oxford				Top of page
Anderson, Helen	Oxford, St Anne’s	Historical and detective fiction in Italy 1950-2008, Calvino, Materba and Mancinelli	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Modern Literature	helen.anderson@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk
Biasini, Rosalba	Oxford, Pembroke	Epic Tradition and Narrative of the Renaissance: the case of Il partigiano Johnny:	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Modern Literature	rosalba.biasini@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Bond, Emma	Oxford, Christ Church	Illness, Silence and Identity in Svevo, Pressburger and Morandini	Dr Emanuela Tandello	Modern Literature	Emma.bond@chch.ox.ac.uk
Crassus, Laura	Oxford, St Hughes	Study of Translations of Major Poetic Texts From Dante to 21st Century	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Linguistics	laura.crassus@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk	Suspended
Damiani, Sabrina	Oxford, Christ Church	Primo Levi and Hermeneutics	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Modern Literature	sabrina_damiani@hotmail.com	Suspended
De Gasperin, Vilma	Oxford, Jesus	Loss and Melancholy in the Writing of Anna Maria Ortese	Dr Emanuela Tandello	Modern Literature	degasperin@yahoo.com	Completed
Drugan, Simon	Oxford, St Peter’s	Theories of the Italian impresa during the later cinquecento: the Ttre Discorsi’ (1564) and ‘ Settenario’ (1571) of Alessandro Farra	Prof Diego Zancari	Renaissance Studies
Hodder, Michael,	Oxford, Balliol	Cultural, Political and Religious Filters in the Translations of Petrarch’s Canzoniere and Trionfi	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Renaissance Studies
Howard, Paul	Oxford, Balliol	‘The Sonetti Romaneschi’ of G G Belli	Prof Diego Zancari	Modern Literature
Kay, Tristan	Oxford, Queen’s	“Vernacular Values”: Moral and Aesthetic Worth in Dante’s Treatment of Arnaut Daniel and Guittone d’Arezzo	Dr Manuela Gragnolati	Medieval Studies	tristan.kay@queens.ox.ac.uk
Lalor, Doireann	Oxford, Balliol	Italian  Post-War Experimentalism in the Wake of English-language Modernism	Dr Emmanuela Tandello and Dr Ronald Bush	Modern Literature	doireann.lalor@balliol.ox.ac.uk
Magnabosco, Francesca Maria	Oxford, St Edmund Hall	Unfading Wonder: Merviglia as a Connection between the Human and the Divine in Major Italian Literary Texts	Dr Nicola Gardini	Renaissance Studies	francesca.magnabosco@seh.ox.ac.uk
Mee, Catharine	Oxford, Lincoln	Travel Literature in French and Italian 20th-Century Writers	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Modern Literature	catharine.mee@lincoln.oxford.ac.uk	Completed
Parker, Eleanor	Oxford, Christ Church	The Poetics of Loss and Mourning in the Later Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti	Dr Emanuela Tandello and Dr Giuseppe Stellardi	Modern Literature	eleanor.parker@christ-church.oxford.ac.uk
Parkes, Daniel	Oxford, St John’s college	Gabriello Chiabrera: Poet, Dramatist and Librettist	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Modern Literature	daniel.parkes@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Pellegrini, Franca	Oxford, Christ Church	The Case for a Regional Line in Italian Contemporary Literature	Dr Guido Bonsaver	Modern Literature	franca.pellegrini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Persic, Ilonka	Oxford, Queen's	Svevo and Joyce	Dr Giuseppe Stellardi	Film Studies	ilonka.persic@queens.oxford.ac.uk
Southerden, Francesca	Oxford, Somerville	Geografie e topografie: Landscapes of Desire in the Poetry of Vittorio Sereni	Dr Emanuela Tandello	Modern Literature	francesca.southerden@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk	Completed
Strebel, Heidi	Oxford, Christ Church	Wilde, Pirandello and the Origins of Reader-Response Theory	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Modern Literature	heidi.strebel@christ-church.oxford.ac.uk	Completed
Truell, Naomi	Oxford, St Hugh’s	Translation of Il gattopardo	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Linguistics	naomi@truell.eclipse.co.uk	Lapsed
Walker, Giles	Oxford, Oriel	Orlando laurenziano and its Relation to Pulci's Morgante	Dr Marco Dorigatti	Renaissance Studies	giles.walker@modlangs.ox.ac.uk
Waring, Caroline	Oxford, St John’s	The Reception of Ariosto’s ‘Orlando Furioso’ by Three Italian Women Writers of the Sixteenth Century	Prof Martin McLaughlin	Renaissance Studies	Caroline.waring@st-johns.oxon.org	Completed
Wehling, Katrin	Oxford, New College	The Agony of Creation and the Dissolution of the Self in the Writings of Carlo Emilio Gadda and Samuel Beckett	Dr Giuseppe Stellardi	Modern Literature	Katrin.wehling@new.ox.ac.uk
Reading				Top of page
Andrews, Eleanor	Reading	Nanni Moretti: An Investigation into his Contribution to Comedy in Italian Cinema	Mr Chris Wagstaff	Film Studies	e.andrews@wlv.ac.uk
Balestra, Enrica	Reading	Fascism and Femininity	Dr Shirley Vinall	Cultural Studies	enrica@mwfree.net
Cicchi, Nazzareno	Reading	Metaphysical Art and Literature	Dr Shirley Vinall	Modern Literature		Completed
De Michele, Grazia	Reading	Attitude to Southern Immigrants in Northern Italy during the ‘Economic Miracle’	Prof Christopher Duggan	Cultural Studies	g.demichele@reading.ac.uk
Ferrara, Enrica	Reading	Calvino and the Theatre	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Modern Literature	enrica_ferrara@hotmail.com	Completed
Grusovin, Alessandra	Reading	The Fantastic Novel	Dr Shirley Vinall	Modern Literature	a.grusovin@reading.ac.uk	Suspended
Lembo, Francisco	Reading	Italian Anti-Fascism and the Liberal Model	Prof Christopher Duggan	Cultural Studies	lfr07fl@reading.ac.uk
Marlow-Mann, Alex	Reading	Contemporary Neapolitan Cinema	Mr Chris Wagstaff	Film Studies	alexmarlowmann@hotmail.com	Completed
Manicelli, Tiziana	Reading	The ‘Poemetto’	Dr Daniela La Penna	Modern Literature	fr07tm@reading.ac.uk
Marsili, Marzia	Reading	Images of Mussolini (1945-c1960)	Prof Christopher Duggan	Cultural Studies		Completed
Miceli, Aldo	Reading	Italian Cinema	Mr Chris Wagstaff	Film Studies	aldomiceli@hotmail.com	Suspended
Pooley, Eugene	Reading	The Impact of the Cult of Mussolini in Rome	Prof Christopher Duggan	Cultural Studies	lfp06emp@reading.ac.uk
Rigoletto, Sergio	Reading	Gender/Changing Masculinities in Contemporary Italy	Mr Chris Wagstaff	Film Studies	lfr05sr@reading.ac.uk
Robinson, Kate	Reading	Closed forms in Contemporary Italian Poetry	Dr Daniela La Penna	Modern Literature	robinskl@hotmail.com	Suspended
Russo, Paolo	Reading	Obsession of Body and Subjectivity in Gabriele Salvatores’s Conceptual Cinema	Mr Chris Wagstaff	Film Studies	p.russo@reading.ac.uk
Sulis, Gigliola	Reading	Language and Dialect	Prof Zygmunt Baranski	Modern Literature	g.sulis@reading.ac.uk	Completed
Royal Holloway				Top of page
Aasdalen, Irene	RHUL	Philosophical Commentaries to Poetry in the Italian Renaissance	Dr Letizia Panizza	Renaissance Studies		Completed
Antola, Alessandra	RHUL	The Image of Mussolini	Prof Stephen Gundle	Cultural Studies	a.antola@rhul.ac.uk
Carlucci, Alessandro	RHUL	Gramsci’s Ideas on Language	Prof Arturo Tosi	Linguistics	a.carlucci@rhul.ac.uk
Cerimonia,Daniela	RHUL	Italian and English Literature	Dr Giuliana Pieri	Modern Literature	d.cerimonia@rhul.ac.uk
Collinson-Jones, Ann	RHUL	The British and Italy in the 19th Century	Dr Giuliana Pieri	Modern Literature	a.m.collinson-jones@rhul.ac.uk
D’Amora, Mariano	RHUL	Contemporary Italian Theatre	Prof Arturo Tosi	Cultural Studies	m.damora@rhul.ac.uk
Doherty, Paul	RHUL	Women Writers and Women Readers in 16th Century Italy	Dr Letizia Panizza	Renaissance Studies	paul.doherty@arts.usyd.edu.au	Completed
Faloppa, Federico	RHUL	History of the Italian Language	Prof Arturo Tosi	Linguistics	f.faloppa@rhul.ac.uk	Completed
Favaretto, Matteo	RHUL	The Comic in Machiavelli	Prof Jane Everson	Renaissance Studies	m.favaretto@rhul.ac.uk
Felici, Annarita	RHUL	Modal Expressions in Multilingual Perspective. A Corpus Based Study of Modal Verbs and Devices in Current EU Normative Texts	Prof Arturo Tosi	Linguistics	a.felici@rhul.ac.uk	Completed
Fusilli, Michele	RHUL	Bandello	Prof Jane Everson	Renaissance Studies	m.fusilli@rhul.ac.uk
Gianfrancesco, Lorenza	RHUL	Giambattista Basile and Lo cunto de li cunti (Il Pentamerone)	Prof Jane Everson	Renaissance Studies		Completed
Giovannone, Pier Mario	RHUL	Poetical Language of David Maria Turoldo	Prof Vivienne Suvini-Hand	Modern Literature	P.M.Giovannone@rhul.ac.uk
Grazioli, Bruno	RHUL	The Historical Novel in 19th-Century Italy	Dr Giuliana Pieri	Modern Literature	b.grazioli@rhul.ac.uk
Krist, Pamela	RHUL	Cultural Memory and Cultural Space: the Fountains of Rome	Dr Giuliana Pieri	Cultural Studies	p.krist@rhul.ac.uk
Magistro, Elena	RHUL	The discourse of the European Union: identity and translation	Prof Arturo Tosi	Linguistics	e.magistro@rhul.ac.uk
Maniscalco,Caterina	RHUL	Popular Music and the Musical in Rome 1945 to Present	Prof Stephen Gundle	Cultural Studies	c.maniscalco@rhul.ac.uk
Martirani, Davide	RHUL	Leopardi	Dr Giuliana Pieri and Dr Andrew Bowie	Modern Literature	d.martirani@rhul.ac.uk
Monte, Paula	RHUL	Food in Italian Theatre	Prof Christopher Cairns	Modern Literature	p.monte@rhul.ac.uk
Philo, Paul	RHUL	Renaissance Comedy	Prof Jane Everson	Renaissance Studies	p.g.philo@rhul.ac.uk
Piombino, Natalia	RHUL	The South in Italian Cinema between 1945 and 1965	Prof Stephen Gundle	Film Studies	n.piombino@rhul.ac.uk
Reidy, Denis	RHUL	Fucini and ‘Verismo’	Dr Giuliana Pieri	Modern Literature	d.reidy@rhul.ac.uk/ Denis.Reidy@bl.uk
Rinaldi, Lucia	RHUL	Postmodern Narratives: Detective Fiction and Representations of Italy	Dr Anne Mullen	Modern Literature		Completed
Santangelo, Enrico	RHUL	Latin Classical Literature in the Middle Ages	Prof Jane Everson	Medieval Studies		Completed
Seravalle Valentina	RHUL	Second Language Acquisition	Prof Arturo Tosi	Linguistics	V.Seravalle@rhul.ac.uk
Spazzini, Maddelena	RHUL	Representations of Italian Identity in Contemporary Italian Cinema	Prof Stephen Gundle	Film Studies	m.spazzini@rhul.ac.uk
Valleriani, Marco	RHUL	Anticlericalism as Political Struggle in Contemporary Italian Theatre	Prof Christopher Cairns	Modern Literature	m.valleriani@rhul.ac.uk
University College London				Top of page
Brisolin, Viola	UCL	Ideology and Subjectivity in Barthes and Pasolini	Dr Florian Mussgnug	Cultural Studies	v.brisolin@ucl.ac.uk
Brown, Julia	UCL	Self-Representation in Italian Cinema	Prof David Forgacs	Film Studies	julia.brown@ucl.ac.uk
Campbell, Andrew	UCL	'A very dangerous thing'. A study of Paolo Antonio Foscarini's Attempt to Reconcile the Copernican Hypothesis with Scriptures in his Letter Concerning the Opinion of the Pythagorean and Copernicus (1615)	Dr Dilwyn Knox	Renaissance Studies	a.campbell@ucl.ac.uk
Caroni, Sebastiano	UCL	Reframing the Intellectual and the Media: Pierre Bourdieu and Umberto Eco	Dr Florian Mussgnug	Modern Literature	s.caroni@ucl.ac.uk
Chiari, Eleanor	UCL	Memory, Place and Political Mobilization in Twentieth Century Turin		Cultural Studies	e.chiari@ucl.ac.uk	Completed
Cohen, Nir	UCL	Representation of Minorities in Israeli Cinema		Film Studies	nircoh76@hotmail.com	Completed
De Francisci, Enza	UCL	Verga and Pirandello	Prof Laura Lepschy	Modern Literature	e.francisci@ucl.ac.uk
Della Gala, Valentina	UCL	The Relationship between the British and the Italians in World War II	Prof John Foot	Cultural Studies	v.gala@ucl.ac.uk
Fiorani, Lara	UCL	Roberto Calasso - Deconstructing Mythology	Dr Enrico Palandri	Modern Literature	l.fiorani@ucl.ac.uk
Greenwood, Adam	UCL	Renaissance Studies	Dr Dilwyn Knox	Renaissance Studies	a.greenwood@ucl.ac.uk
Ibba, Giacomo Nicola	UCL	The Reception of the ‘Unpublishable’ Work: E. M. Forster’s ‘Maurice’ and Umberto Saba’s ‘Ernesto’	Dr Florian Mussgnug	Modern Literature	n.ibba@ucl.ac.uk
Jokiharju, Outi	UCL	Words, Music, and Spectacle: the 18th Century Italian opera seria and its Libretto between Reform and Practical Constraints	Prof John Lindon	Modern Literature	outi.jokiharju@ucl.ac.uk
Lombini, Sabina	UCL	Film Audiences and Film-Going in the Province of Bologna, Italy (1955-1985)	Prof David Forgacs)	Film Studies	s.lombini@ucl.ac.uk
Massaccesi, Cristina	UCL	Pier Vittorio Tondelli	Dr Enrico Palandri	Modern Literature	glare80@hotmail.com	Completed
Messina, Francesco	UCL	Centre-Periphery Relations within Cosa Nostra in Sicily: the Provinces of Trapani and Palermo	Dr John Dickie	Cultural Studies	f.messina@ucl.ac.uk
Murolo-Lepori, Adriana	UCL	Linguistic Minorities – Southern Italy	Dr John Dickie	Cultural Studies	adrianalepori@hotmail.co.uk
Ng, Pei Suin	UCL	The Cinematic Real: the Moving Image in the Digital Era	Prof David Forgacs	Film Studies	jennang156@yahoo.com	Completed
Niccolai, Marta	UCL	Internal and External Space in the Italian Immigration Literature	Prof Laura Lepschy	Modern Literature	martaniccolai@hotmail.com
Norman, Nicoletta	UCL	Women in Medieval Italian Poetry		Medieval Studies	n.norman@ucl.ac.uk	Completed
Oglethorpe, Stuart	UCL	The Experience of Change in the Central Italian Countryside, 1950-1970	Dr John Foot	Cultural Studies	stuart.oglethorpe@ucl.ac.uk
Oropallo, Gabriele	UCL	Design and Identity	Prof Robert Lumley	Cultural Studies	g.oropallo@ucl.ac.uk
Pescetelli, Marco	UCL	Fading Films: Problems about Conservation and Restoration of the Films	Professor David Forgacs	Film Studies	m.pescatelli@ucl.ac.uk
Serenelli, Sofia	UCL	The Family and 1968. Realities, Protest, Generation and Memory	Dr John Foot	Cultural Studies	sofia.serenelli@ucl.ac.uk	Completed
Tamponi, Anna Rita	UCL	Mind Sets and Languages: A Theoretical Model Acting as a Link between Italian Language Acquisition and Cultural Categories		Linguistics	a.tamponi@ucl.ac.uk	Completed

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