Lecturing staff are active in academic research. Current research interests include the theoretical writings of Umberto Eco, translation and censorship in Fascist Italy, crime fiction, Italian modernism, and social and political control in Mussolini's Italy. Recent or forthcoming publications include Twentieth Century Italy. A Social History (Longman) by Dr Jonathan Dunnage, and a volume by Dr Simona Storchi on Unsettling Modernity. Periodicals, Intellectuals, Debates in 1920s Italy (Legenda). Current work in progress includes volumes on Eco and Aesthetics (Dr Jonathan Smith); Massimo Bontempelli (Dr Simona Storchi); The Policing of Fascist Italy (Dr Jonathan Dunnage); The 'Mito Americano' in Fascist Italy (Dr Jane Dunnett); A History of Post-War Italy (Prof. Gino Bedani).

Postgraduate Research

Postgraduate research can be conducted in a number of areas, including:

• nineteenth- and twentieth-century narrative
• cinema and theatre
• cultural studies
• language
• twentieth-century social and cultural history.
  

Areas of current or recently completed research undertaken by postgraduate students include

• the de-ideologization of the Italian Communist Party
• the aesthetics of Croce
• the Catholic input into the Italian constitution
• the language of business and commercial texts
• the Allied occupation of Sicily
• Allied law and order policy in Southern Italy

If you would like further information please contact: Dr J.Dunnage

Staff research interests & publications

Academic staff

MEICAM

Dr Jane Dunnett

Dr Jonathan Smith

Dr Simona Storchi

Prof G Bedani

Dr Jonathan Dunnage- Research Group for the Study of Modern European Ideologies, Conflict and Memory