Postgraduate research in Italian Studies

Our postgraduate research students benefit from supervision on a wide variety of topics across a range of fields, from the Duecento to the contemporary.

Our team's research interests include:

• History
• Literature
• Linguistics
• Cultural history
• History of the book and textual studies
• Translation studies
• Visual culture
• Renaissance culture
• Boccaccio, Dante, and medieval Italian literature
• Cinema studies
• Premodern manuscript and print cultures
• Text technologies
• Digital literary studies
• The history of libraries and collecting
• Culture and Dictatorship
• Periodical Studies
• Modernist Studies

See our Italian Studies staff list

Here's what some of our current students are researching:

•  - 'Giulio Camillo's Theatro della Sapientia and theatres of knowledge in the Early Modern period' (JRRI PhD Scholarship)

• Michaela Baldo - 'Translation as Re-Narration in Italian-Canadian Writing: Codeswitching, Focalisation, Voice and Plot in Nino Ricci's Trilogy and its Italian Translation'
• Chiara Berrani - 'Alice's Adventures in the Italian Land: Translating Children's Literature in Italy across a Century (1865-1988)'
• Francesco Casti - 'Testing the Interclausal Relations Hierarchy: Aspectual and Modal Periphrases in Modern Sardinian'
• Francesco Maria Ciconte - 'Existentials in Early Narratives of the Vernaculars of Italy'
•  - 'Looking at Boccaccio's Reception through a Series of four Snapshot Micro-Histories of Specific Locales: Late Fifteenth-Century Seville, early Sixteenth-Century Prague, mid-Sixteenth-Century Venice, and Twentieth-Century Manchester
• Giusti Giulio Luciano - 'Modern and Contemporary Painting in Dario Argento's Films'
•  - 'Modern Medici: The 25th and 26th Earls of Crawford and their Manuscript Collections'
•  - 'How to be a Poet, Translator and Editor: Attilio Bertolucci and the Modernization of the Italian Literary Canon'
• Laura Pennacchietti - 'Italian Translations of Postcolonial English Novels: Mapping Cultural and Linguistic Otherness in the Italian Literary Marketplace'
• Francesca Nottola - 'Translation as a Potential Catalyst for Social Change? Feminine Models from Romanzi della Palma (1932-1943), Fascist Discourse and Italian Culture and Society'
• Laura Anne Parker - 'Public History and Collective Memory in Venice and Venetia, 1815-1915'
• Veronica Pizzarotti - 'Authorizing Ariosto in English: Three Translations of Orlando Furioso, 1591-1791'
• Elena Anna Spagnuolo - ‘The Split Self and the Phenomenon of Self-Translation: Italian Writers between More Languages and Cultures’
•  - 'Twentieth-Century Texts in Translation and Manchester's Carcanet Press'