Research

  • The research strengths of this program are represented below. We welcome applications from prospective PhD and MA students wishing to conduct research on or related to the following key areas:

    • Contemporary Italian and Italo-Australian Poetry and Narrative (Raffaele Lampugnani) Dante; Medieval Italian Society and Poetry (Raffaele Lampugnani)
    • Feminist theory (Susanna Scarparo, Annamaria Pagliaro)
    • Film Adaptation Theory – the novel into film (Annamaria Pagliaro, Raffaele Lampugnani)
    • Gender issues in Italian literature and cinema (Susanna Scarparo)
    • Italian Cinema (Susanna Scarparo, Raffaele Lampugnani)
    • Italian Theatre (Annamaria Pagliaro)
    • Life writing (Susanna Scarparo)
    • Literary Translation Theory (Annamaria Pagliaro)
    • Migration and Mobility (Susanna Scarparo, Raffaele Lampugnani)
    • Neorealist Narrative and Cinema (Raffaele Lampugnani)
    • Magical Realism in Literature (Raffaele Lampugnani)
    • The Italian Novel particularly from Romanticism to Modernism (Annamaria Pagliaro)
    • The Short Story in 19th and early and early 20th Century (Annamaria Pagliaro)

    Please note that LCL academics frequently co-supervise MA and PhD projects located in programs other than their own. If you intend to work on a project that straddles this and another discipline, we will organize the necessary complement of research expertise to meet your supervision needs.

    Research Groups