Key Research and Graduate Research Areas
in Italian Studies
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.