Italian Studies PhD/Mphil

Research Areas: Our academic staff in Italian Studies can offer MPhil/PhD supervision on a wide variety of topics, a selection of which are listed below: Contemporary Italian History Italian mafias, religion and the Church Memory and Trauma Studies Women and Italian organised crime Cultural representation of violence Personal Narrative Performance Identity and power in social interactions Co-supervision of comparative topics within the School can also be offered. Entry: A good honours degree with the ability to pursue research in a chosen field. Completed PhD theses: PhD dissertations in Italian Studies successfully completed in the School of Modern Languages include: (2013) Gerwyn Owen: ‘The Jew as Dangerous Other in Early Italian Cinema, 1910–1914’. Co-supervised with Prof Nathan Abrams (SCSM).