Postgraduate Studies

The Department is very active in research in the areas of 20th-century Italian literature and culture, with specific emphasis on Italian Colonialism and Postcolonialism, The 'Anni di Piombo', Italian Cinema, Gender and Sexuality, Facism, Dante and early Italian Poets. See the staff list below which offers an indication of the specialist research interests of individual staff members.

Taught Masters (MA)

Italian staff are currently participating in the creation of a series of brand new taught Masters programmes in the School of Modern Languages at Bristol. These will come on stream in 2009-10. For details see the School webpages.

Italian colleagues also contribute to the teaching of interdisciplinary Faculty MA programmes such as Colonialism in History and Medieval Studies.

MPhil and PhD

They also offer supervision/co-supervision on MPhil and MLitt/PhD programmes. In recent times, dissertation subjects have ranged from medieval transvestite authorship to contemporary women’s travel writing, and deixis in northern Italian language varieties.  .

Staff

• Dr Charles F Burdett (Reader): Italy and the Islamic World; Italy and Africa; Fascist culture and ideology; Italian travel writing; critical theory.
• Professor Derek E Duncan (Professor of Italian Cultural Studies): Discourses of race and ethnicity; Italian cinema of migration; gay/queer studies; narrative and gender; critical theory.
• Dr Ruth Glynn (Senior Lecturer): Representations of the anni di piombo; trauma theory; Italian postmodernism and critical theory; the historical novel..
• Dr Elena Lombardi (Senior Lecturer): Dante; early Italian poetry.
• Dr Catherine O'Rawe (Senior Lecturer): Contemporary Italian cinema; Italian cinema of the 1940s and 1950s; Sicilian literature.

For further information on life as a postgraduate in Bristol, visit The Graduate School of Arts and Humanities