ENGLISH AND ANGLO-AMERICAN LANGUAGES, LITERATURE AND CULTURES
Texts, authors and the cultural aspects of the early and late modernity; the relationships between Italian culture and English cultures in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; the European influence on English literature from the Renaissance to early Romanticism; contemporary Anglophone literature in a post-colonial perspective, and a comparative and transnational approach to the literature of Europe and Italy, and the travelling cultures of the Black Atlantic; English as a language for intercultural communication, with a special focus on the analysis of non-literary genres (academic, political, scientific), and the compilation and consultation of corpora for lexico-grammatical investigations and discourse analysis; contrastive linguistics; specialized and audio-visual translation from the perspective of intercultural communication; non-verbal, multi-modal and multi-media communication; second/foreign language teaching.
GERMAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CULTURE
History of German literature; literary criticism and reception; Jewish Studies; the relationship between psychoanalysis and literature and between literature and political knowledge in the early modern age; contemporary Dutch literature.
Our staff research interests
- SCACCHI Anna [LINGUE E LETTERATURE ANGLO-AMERICANE - L-LIN/11]
- CORONATO Rocco [LETTERATURA INGLESE – L-LIN/10]
- OBOE Annalisa [LETTERATURA INGLESE – L-LIN/10]
- PARLATI Marilena [LETTERATURA INGLESE – L-LIN/10]
- PETRINA Alessandra [LETTERATURA INGLESE – L-LIN/10]
- MASIERO Federica [LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUA TEDESCA - L-LIN/14]
- GESUATO Sara [LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUA INGLESE L-LIN/12]
- CASTELLO Erik [LINGUA E TRADUZIONE - LINGUA INGLESE L-LIN/12]
- HASHEM ABDO KHALAF Omar [FILOLOGIA GERMANICA - L-FIL-LET/15]
- MENGALDO Elisabetta [FILOLOGIA GERMANICA - L-FIL-LET/13]
