University of St Andrews

Narrating Migrant Identities in Contemporary Italian Film & Literature: From Patterns of Exclusion to the Unravelling of Eurocentrism

Academic History:

2016: DPhil Italian

2013-2015: MLitt Crossways in Cultural Narratives

2008-2013: MA (Hons) German & Italian with Year Abroad

Supervisors:

Professor Derek Duncan

Dr Emma Bond

Research Interests:

• Migration literature & migration cinema
• Postcolonial studies
• Gender studies & feminism
• Subaltern theory
• Italian & German culture

Previous Research Projects:

For my undergraduate dissertation I looked at narratology & the theme of communication in three novels by the Italian postwar author Natalia Ginzburg.

My Master's dissertation, entitled 'Fortress Europe's criminalisation of the migrant: an incurable symptom of Italy's postcolonial condition?', compared representations of the migrant subject in Italian cinema & literature.

Scholarships:

• AHRC DTP
• Full Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
• Erasmus Grant

Awards:

• St Andrews Deans list 2011-2012 & 2012-2013

Contact Details:

Email: Enw4@st-andrews.ac.uk

First published: 22 March 2016