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Please come along to the Italian Research Seminar taking place onWednesday, 6 May at 4:30 pm in FAB4.02, which will feature three completing doctoral researchers in Italian Studies whose work collectively spans the modern-contemporary period, distinct and interdisciplinary critical approaches, and diverse forms of cultural production. Colleagues across the Faculty are welcome to attend, especially PhD researchers who may want to hear thoughts on the process towards submission.

Final-year PhD students Gennaro Ambrosino, Kerry Gibbons, and Jacopo F. Mascoli will present their research. The titles of their presentations are:

Gennaro Ambrosino, Writing the Deep: Volcanoes, Ruins, and the Unconscious in Italy across the Revolving Century (1760–1840)

Kerry Gibbons, ‘Siamo pionieri abbandonato al nostro destino’: insabbiamento and the poetics of conversion in the fascist-era romanzo coloniale (colonial novel)

Jacopo F. Mascoli, Visions of Labour in Contemporary Italian Cinema (2006–2016)