Current postgraduate research projects

Below you will find a list of research topics currently being undertaken by Modern Languages postgraduate students along with their email contact addresses. In addition you can visit the Staff List to find out the main research areas within the department:

Italian:

• Attitudes to Southern Immigrants in Northern Italy
  Grazia de Michele (g.demichele@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• The Cinema of Nanni Moretti
  Eleanor Andrews (e.andrews@wlv.ac.uk)
  
  
• The idea of Rome in the architectural reformation of the Captial
  Eugene Pooley (e.pooley@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• The notion of Italian Anti-fascism and liberalism
  Francesco Lembo (f.lembo@reading.ac.uk), click here to see Francesco's CV
  
  
• Youth Communist League in the 1960's
  Leo Goretti (l.goretti@reading.ac.uk), click here to see Leo's CV
  
  
• The Beatification Policies of the Vatican under John Paul II
  Valentina Ciciliot (v.ciciliot@student.reading.ac.uk), click here to see Valentina's CV
  
  
• The Trans-European Dimension of the Youth Fascist organisations
  Tamara Colacicco (t.colacicco@student.reading.ac.uk), click here to see Tamara's CV
  
  
• Immigrant Literatures in Italy 1980s to the Present
  Kombola Ramadhani-Mussa (k.ramadhanimussa@student.reading.ac.uk), click here to see Kombola's CV
  
  
• Spanish Civil War and Italian Anti-fascism
  Manuele Cogni (m.g.cogni@student.reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• Dante in Beckett and Joyce
  Stefano Rosignoli (s.rosignoli@student.reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• Italian Socialists and French Socialists in the Debate on the International (1945-1957)
  Enrico Pugliese (bz019163@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• The Last Phase of the Cinema of Salvatores
  Paolo Russo (lfr05pr@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• Vittorio Sereni and Carlos Williams: A Critical Edition of the Translation Notebooks
  Sara Pesatori (s.pesatori@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• Attilio Bertolucci's La Camera da letto: A Digital Critical Edition
  Tiziana Mancinelli (lfr07tm@reading.ac.uk)
  

More information can be found on the Research in Italian Studies page.

French

• The Figure of the Magician in 12th century literary culture
  Carolina Escobar
  
  
• Decolonization and European Integration in 1950s: a comparison between France, UK and Belgium
  Laura Kottos (pn026308@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• Catar Texts
  Rachel Ernst (bg023610@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• The Unequal Marriage in the long 12th century
  Charlotte Pickard (fq006584@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• The Welsh Tradition of the Seven Sieges of Rome
  Carys Gadsden
  
  
• Humour and Laughter in lonesco
  Raluca Petrisor 

More information can be found on the Research in French Studies page.

German

• National Foundations in Post-war German Cinema
  Richard McKenzie (wg000538@reading.ac.uk)
  
  
• Popular opinion and integration in Post-War Germanies
  Ronny Heidenreich (heidenreichr@web.de)

More information can be found on the Research in German Studies page.