Current and recent theses

Adrian Buncuga, ‘A typological study of the subjunctive in Italian’. Joint Honours with the Department of Linguistics. Supervisor: Antonia Rubino.
Daniel Canaris, 'Filologia e filosofia. The significance of Vico's union of filosofia and filologia to Manzoni's historiographical and aesthetic theory'. Supervisor: Francesco Borghesi.
Anna-Lisa Doumani, 'Hunter or Hero? A study of the characterisation of a Medici Prince in Poliziano's Stanze'. Supervisor: Francesco Borghesi.
Matthew Forwood, 'Poetry and the rise of the Renaissance Artist'. Joint Honours with the Department of History. Supervisor: Francesco Borghesi.
Will Introna, ‘Philosophy of the Sublime in the poetry of Giacomo Leopardi’. Supervisor: Giorgia Alù.
Lara Johnson, ‘Le memorie di Carla Capponi e Rosario Bentivegna. La lotta per la Resistenza’. Supervisor: Maria Cristina Mauceri.
Travis McKenna, 'Machiavelli and Petrarch. Morality, politics and virtue'. Supervisor: Francesco Borghesi.
Taylor C. Miller, ‘Australian and Italian Surfing. A Comparative Study’. Supervisor: Maria Cristina Mauceri.

Cara Ghassemian, 'The melancholy of the Operette Morali by Giacomo Leopardi'. Supervisor: Francesco Borghesi.

Paul Croci, ‘The Translation of Zeno. Comparing the two English translations of La coscienza di Zeno by Italo Svevo’. Supervisor: Giorgia Alù.
Catherine Davis, ‘Women in Contemporary Italy: Explorations of Female Time, Space and the Body’. Supervisor: Paolo Bartoloni
Jacinta Mulders, ‘Fellini’s understanding of reality and the cinema in 8 ½’. Supervisor: Giorgia Alù.

Romina Accurso, ‘On Buffy and Dante.'
Maria Capobianco, ‘Harry Potter and the Italian Translations: Transfiguring “treacle tart”, “school houses” and “robes.”’
Vincenzina Criniti, ‘Multilingualism in Online Exchanges: a Study of the In Italiano Chatroom.'
Danielle Gehrmann, ‘Language dynamics in multilingual Switzerland: The position of Italian.'
Kerry Hardman, ‘Goldoni, ‘Le Bourru bienfaisant and its Italian and English translations.'
Katherine Jacka, ‘Roger II and Kitab Rujar: A World geography created in twelfth-century Sicily.' Joint Honours with the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies.
Robert Kelly, ‘Philosophy of Time or Philosopher’s Stone? Antonio Negri’s Alchemy: Revolutionary Time and Pure Democracy.'
Justine Marshall, ‘In the Service of Love: Feminism and Morality in Goldoni’s La serva amorosa.'
Pip Muratore, ‘Is it Wise? The Education of the Witch in Arthurian Narrative and Italian Epic.' Joint Honours with the Department of of French Studies.

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