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University

Thesis title

Supervisor

Area

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Cultural Studies

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Antola, Alessandra

RHUL

The Image of Mussolini

Prof Stephen Gundle

Cultural Studies

a.antola@rhul.ac.uk

 

Balestra, Enrica

Reading

Fascism and Femininity 

Dr Shirley Vinall

Cultural Studies

enrica@mwfree.net

 

Brisolin, Viola

UCL

Ideology and Subjectivity in Barthes and Pasolini

Dr Florian Mussgnug

Cultural Studies

v.brisolin@ucl.ac.uk

 

Chiari, Eleanor

UCL

Memory, Place and Political Mobilization in Twentieth Century Turin

 

Cultural Studies

 

 Completed

D’Amora, Mariano

RHUL

Contemporary Italian Theatre

Prof Arturo Tosi

Cultural Studies

m.damora@rhul.ac.uk

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Hurolo-Lepori, Adriana

UCL

Linguistic Minorities – Southern Italy

Dr John Dickie

Cultural Studies

adrianalepori@hotmail.co.uk

 

Krist, Pamela

RHUL

Cultural Memory and Cultural Space: the Fountains of Rome

Dr Giuliana Pieri

Cultural Studies

p.krist@rhul.ac.uk

 

Lembo, Francisco

Reading

Italian Anti-Fascism and the Liberal Model

Prof Christopher Duggan

Cultural Studies

lfr07fl@reading.ac.uk

 

Leslie, Gabriel

Reading

Race and Social Darwinism in Italy 1870-1945

Prof Christopher Duggan

Cultural Studies

lfr06gnl@reading.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

 

Marsili, Marzia

Reading

Images of Mussolini (1945-c1960) 

Prof Christopher Duggan

Cultural Studies

 

 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

 

 

Oglethorpe, Stuart

UCL

The Experience of Change in the Central Italian Countryside, 1950-1970

Dr John Foot

Cultural Studies

stuart.oglethorpe@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

Pooley, Eugene

Reading

The Impact of the Cult of Mussolini in Rome

Prof Christopher Duggan

Cultural Studies

lfp06emp@reading.ac.uk

 

Serenelli, Sofiam

UCL

The Family and 1968. Realities, Protest, Generation and Memory

Dr John Foot

Cultural Studies

sofia.serenelli@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

 

Film Studies

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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

 

Brown, Julia

UCL

Self-Representation in Italian Cinema

Prof David Forgacs

Film Studies

julia.brown@ucl.ac.uk

 

Cohen, Nir

UCL

Representation of Minorities in Israeli Cinema

 

Film Studies

 

 Completed

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

 

Marlow-Mann, Alex

Reading

Contemporary Neapolitan Cinema 

Mr Chris Wagstaff

Film Studies

 

 Completed

Miceli, Aldo

Reading

Italian Cinema  

Mr Chris Wagstaff

Film Studies

aldomiceli@hotmail.com

 

Ng, Pei Suin

UCL

The Cinematic Real: the Moving Image in the Digital Era

Prof David Forgacs

Film Studies

jennang156@yahoo.com

 

 

O'Leary, Alan

Cambridge, Wolfson

Cinematic Representations of Italian Post-War Terrorism

Prof Zygmunt Baranski

Film Studies

 

 Completed

Persic, Ilonka

Oxford, Queen's

Svevo and Joyce 

Dr Giuseppe Stellardi

Film Studies

ilonka.persic@queens.oxford.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

 

 

Piombino, Natalia

RHUL

The South in Italian Cinema between 1945 and 1965

Prof Stephen Gundle

Film Studies

n.piombino@rhul.ac.uk

 

Rigoletto, Sergio

Reading

Gender/Changing Masculinities in Contemporary Italy

Mr Chris Wagstaff

Film Studies

 lfr05sr@reading.ac.uk

 

Russo, Paolo

Reading

Obsession of Body and Subjectivity in Gabriele Salvatores’s Conceptual Cinema

Mr Chris Wagstaff

Film Studies

p.russo@reading.ac.uk 

 

Spazzini, Maddelena

RHUL

Representations of Italian Identity in Contemporary Italian Cinema

Prof Stephen Gundle

Film Studies

m.spazzini@rhul.ac.uk

 

Linguistics

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Carlucci, Alessandro

RHUL

Gramsci’s Ideas on Language

Prof Arturo Tosi

Linguistics

a.carlucci@rhul.ac.uk

 

Cruschina, Silvio

Cambridge

Syntactic Features of the Sicilian Dialect

Dr Adam Ledgeway

Linguistics

 

 

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 

 

Faloppa, Federico

RHUL

History of the Italian Language

Prof Arturo Tosi

Linguistics

 

Completed

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

 

Hart, Victoria

Cambridge

Italian Linguistics

Dr Adam Ledgeway

Linguistics

 

 

Magistro, Elena

RHUL

The discourse of the European Union: identity and translation

Prof Arturo Tosi

Linguistics

e.magistro@rhul.ac.uk

 

Peverini-Benson, Claudia

Cambridge, St Catharine’s

Syntactic Variation in Ancontenano: Exploring the Eastern Point of the Rome-Ancona Isogloss

Dr Adam Ledgeway

Linguistics

cp306@cam.ac.uk

 

Seravalle Valentina

RHUL

Second Language Acquisition

Prof Arturo Tosi

Linguistics

V.Seravalle@rhul.ac.uk

 

Tamponi, Anna Rita

UCL

Mind Sets and Languages: A Theoretical Model Acting as a Link between Italian Language Acquisition and Cultural Categories

 

Linguistics

 

 Completed

Truell, Naomi

Oxford, St Hugh’s

Translation of Il gattopardo 

Prof Martin McLaughlin

Linguistics

naomi@truell.eclipse.co.uk 

 

Medieval Studies

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Baxter, Catherine

Cambridge

Rhetoric and Sexual Ethics in Boccaccio's Decameron

Prof Zygmunt Baranski

Medieval Studies

 

 

Corbett,  George Patrick

Cambridge

Dante's Moral Philosophy

Prof Robin Kirkpatrick

Medieval Studies

 

 

Harrison Heather

Cambridge, Wolfson

Gender and Authorship in Boccacio's Decameron

Prof Zygmunt Baranski

Medieval Studies

hh282@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

leh23@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

nkj22@cam.ac.uk

 

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

 

Leone, Anne

Cambridge

Dante and Blood

Prof Zygmunt Baranski

Medieval Studies

 

 

Macmillan, Alex

Cambridge, Clare Hall

Dante’s Nineteenth- Century Reception

Prof Zygmunt Baranski

Medieval Studies

am535@cam.ac.uk

 

Marletta, Deborah

UCL

Dante: Free Will, Grace, Predestination

Prof John Took

Medieval Studies

d.marletta@ucl.ac.uk

 

Norman, Nicoletta

UCL

Women in Medieval Italian Poetry 

 

Medieval Studies

 

 Completed

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

 

Santangelo, Enrico

RHUL

Latin Classical Literature in the Middle Ages

Prof Jane Everson

Medieval Studies

 

Completed

Wadswarth, Andrew

UCL

Dante Studies 

Professor John Took

Medieval Studies

a.wadsworth@ucl.ac.uk

 

Modern Literature

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Anderson, Helen

Oxford, St Anne’s

Fantasy in the Novels of Calvino, Malerba and Mancinelli

Prof Martin McLaughlin

Modern Literature

helen.anderson@st-annes.oxford.ac.uk

 

Biasini, Rosalba

Oxford, Pembroke

Fenoglio’s Il partigiano Johnny:  Epic Structure and Intertexts in English

Prof Martin McLaughlin

Modern Literature

rosalba.biasini@pmb.ox.ac.uk 

 

Bond, Emma

Oxford, Christ Church

Illness as Metaphor from Svevo to Presssburger

Dr Emanuela Tandello

Modern Literature

Emma.bond@chch.ox.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

 

Cerimonia,

Daniela

RHUL

Italian and English Literature

Dr Giuliana Pieri

Modern Literature

d.cerimonia@rhul.ac.uk

 

Cicchi, Nazzareno

Reading

Metaphysical Art and Literature 

Dr Shirley Vinall

Modern Literature

 

 Completed

Collinson-Jones, Ann

RHUL

The British and Italy in the 19th Century

Dr Giuliana Pieri

Modern Literature

a.m.collinson-jones@rhul.ac.uk

 

Damiani, Sabrina

Oxford, Christ Church

Primo Levi and Hermeneutics 

Prof Martin McLaughlin

Modern Literature

sabrina_damiani@hotmail.com

 

De Donno, Fabrizio

Cambridge

European and Indian Civilisation in the Imaginings of Orientalism

Prof Zygmunt Baranski

Modern Literature

fd231@cam.ac.uk

 

De Francisci, Enza

UCL

Verga and Pirandello

Prof Laura Lepschy

Modern Literature

e.francisci@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

De Gasperin, Vilma

Oxford, Jesus

Loss and Melancholy in the Writing of Anna Maria Ortese

Dr Emanuela Tandello

Modern Literature

 

 Completed

Ferrara, Enrica

Reading

Calvino and the Theatre

Prof Zygmunt Baranski

Modern Literature

 

 Completed

Fiorani, Lara

UCL

Roberto Calasso - Deconstructing Mythology

Dr Enrico Palandri

Modern Literature

l.fiorani@ucl.ac.uk

 

 

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

 

Greenberg, Meg

Cambridge, Christ’s

Futurist Science: Filippo T. Marinetti’s Response to Biological, Technological, and Sociological Innovation

Dr Robert Gordon

Modern Literature

mg365@cam.ac.uk

 

Grusovin, Alessandra

Reading

The Fantastic Novel 

Dr Shirley Vinall

Modern Literature

a.grusovin@reading.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

 

 

Ide, Eleanor

Cambridge, St Catharine’s

The Early Works of Natalia Ginzburg

Prof Zygmunt Baranski and Dr R Gordon

Modern Literature

evi20@cam.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

 

 

Lalor, Doireann

Oxford, Balliol

Italian  Post-War Experimentalism in the Wake of English-language Modernism

Dr Emmanuela Tandello

Modern Literature

 doireann.lalor@balliol.ox.ac.uk

 

Lerro,  Menotti

Reading

Poetry and Autobiography

Dr Daniela La Penna

Modern Literature

lfr07ml@reading.ac.uk

 

Manicelli, Tiziana

Reading

The ‘Poemetto’

Dr Daniela La Penna

Modern Literature

fr07tm@reading.ac.uk

 

Massaccesi, Cristina

UCL

Pier Vittorio Tondelli

Dr Enrico Palandri

Modern Literature

 

 Completed

Mee, Catharine

Oxford, Lincoln

Travel Literature in French and Italian 20th-Century Writers 

Prof Martin McLaughlin

Modern Literature

catharine.mee@lincoln.oxford.ac.uk

 

Meraviglia, Isabella

RHUL

Questions of Gender and Authorial Identity in the Narrative of J. Winterson and A. Busi 

Dr Guido Bonsaver

Modern Literature

isabella@unbound.org.uk

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Monte, Paula

RHUL

Food in Italian Theatre

Prof Christopher Cairns

Modern Literature

p.monte@rhul.ac.uk

 

Niccolai, Marta

UCL

Internal and External Space in the Italian Immigration Literature

Prof Laura Lepschy

Modern Literature

martaniccolai@hotmail.com

 

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, Hertford

Chiabrera, Busenello and the Development of the Early Opera Libretto

Prof Martin McLaughlin

Modern Literature

daniel.parkes@hertford.ox.ac.uk

 

Pellegrini, Franca

Oxford, Christ Church

The Regional Narrative Line in Contemporary Italian Fiction

Dr Guido Bonsaver

Modern Literature

 franca.pellegrini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

 

Reidy, Denis

RHUL

Fucini and Italian Verismo

Dr Giuliana Pieri

Modern Literature

d.reidy@rhul.ac.uk

 

Rinaldi, Lucia

RHUL

Postmodern Narratives: Detective Fiction and Representations of Italy

Dr Anne Mullen

Modern Literature

 

Completed

Robinson, Kate

Reading

Closed forms in Contemporary Italian Poetry

Dr Daniela La Penna

Modern Literature

robinskl@hotmail.com

 

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

Stillwell, Ron

Reading

Contemporary Sardinian Literature

Dr Daniela La Penna

Modern Literature

Ronnie.Stillwell@btopenworld.com

 

Strebel, Heidi

Oxford, Christ Church

Wilde, Pirandello and the Origins of Reader-Response Theory

Prof Martin McLaughlin

Modern Literature

 

 Completed

Sulis, Gigliola

Reading

Language and Dialect 

Prof Zygmunt Baranski

Modern Literature

 

 Completed

Valleriani, Marco

RHUL

Anticlericalism as Political Struggle in Contemporary Italian Theatre

Prof Christopher Cairns

Modern Literature

m.valleriani@rhul.ac.uk

 

Wallington, Katherine

Cambridge, St Catharine's

Carlo Goldoni and Lorenzo Da Ponte

Dr J Dashwood

Modern Literature

ktw22@cam.ac.uk

 

Wehling, Katrin

Oxford, New College

Sprachkrise and Narrative Displacement: the Writings of Carlo Emilio Gadda and Samuel Beckett

Dr Giuseppe Stellardi

Modern Literature

 Katrin.wehling@new.ox.ac.uk

 

Renaissance Studies

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Aasdalen, Irene

RHUL

Philosophical Commentaries to Poetry in the Italian Renaissance

Dr Letizia Panizza

Renaissance Studies

 

Completed

Anderson, Edward M.

Cambridge, St John’s

Language, Style, and Ariosto's Legacy in Seventeenth Century Italian Musical Drama

Prof Patrick Boyde

Renaissance Studies

ema27@cam.ac.uk 

 Completed

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

 

 

Carinci, Eleonora

Cambridge, St Catharine’s

Pious Women and Nuns: Treatise Writing by Women in Post-Tridentine Italy.

Dr Abigail Brundin

Renaissance Studies

ec328@cam.ac.uk

 

Doherty, Paul  

RHUL

Women Writers and Women Readers in 16th Century Italy

Dr Letizia Panizza

Renaissance Studies

 

 Completed

Frost, Meera

Cambridge, St John’s

Italian Images of India between 1350 and 1650

Prof Patrick Boyde

Renaissance Studies

macf2@cam.ac.uk

 

Gianfrancesco, Lorenza

RHUL

Giambattista Basile and Lo cunto de li cunti (Il Pentamerone)

Prof Jane Everson

Renaissance Studies

 

 Completed

Greenwood, Adam

UCL

Renaissance Studies

Dr Dilwyn Knox

Renaissance Studies

a.greenwood@ucl.ac.uk

 

Magnabosco, Francesca Maria

Oxford, St Edmond Hall

The Declension of Wonder in Dante, Ariosto, Tasso and Leopardi

Dr Emmanuela Tandello and Dr Nicola Gardini

Renaissance Studies

 francesca.magnabosco@seh.ox.ac.uk

 

Philo, Paul

RHUL

Renaissance Comedy

Prof Jane Everson

Renaissance Studies

p.g.philo@rhul.ac.uk

 

Rees, Katie

Cambridge

Women Writers for the Theatre in Renaissance Italy

Dr Abigail Brundin

Renaissance Studies

 

 

Rossi, Daniela Giulia

Cambridge, Girton

Renaissance Culture: Writings of Religious and Secular Women 

Dr Abigail Brundin

Renaissance Studies

djr51@cam.ac.uk

 

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

 

Completed

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