Italian Studies

The School of Modern Languages offers the possibility to do a PhD/MPhil in Italian Studies. The Italian Studies programme is offered at Bangor University.

The School has a long tradition of excellent postgraduate student support. Depending on the chosen research area, students will be assigned one or two supervisors and are guaranteed full access to computing facilities (including translation memory software), library provision and all School resources including the film library.

There is a dedicated postgraduate study area within the School which students are encouraged to use as often as they can.

Completed PhD theses:

• PhD dissertations in Italian Studies 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).

The Italian Studies programme is offered at  Bangor University Bangor University .

Research Areas

• 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