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Past dissertation topics

This is a selection of dissertations completed in Italian Studies in recent years:

The Wolf in Dante's "Divine Comedy" (Wendy de Burgh)

The 'Wog Boy' phenomenon among Perth youth (Lisa Calabro)

A translation and linguistic analysis of legal Italian (Rocco Loiacono)

English stories of an Italian puppet: a comparison of two recent translations of Le Avventure di Pinocchio (Michelle Pearce)

The acquisition of gender and number in Italian L2 in a formal context (Kim Angel)

Cultural hegemony, assimilation and rebellion in the novels of Melina Marchetta (Anna Martella)

Auxiliary verb selection in recent monolingual dictionaries (Giovanna Bartle)

A sociolinguistic reading of Il Libro del Cortegiano (Joshua Brown)

"The language attitudes of second generation Italians" (Kamariani Houlis)

"Dismantling the myth of the Resistance: Carlo Cassola's treatment of partisan violence in La ragazza di Bube" (Frances Hoskins)

"Una 'femminetta scomoda': Elisa Salerno's campaign for the rehabilitation of women" (Helena Dawes)

"The Sicily of Peter Robb" (Georgina Harper)

"The changing cinematic style of Roberto Rossellini (1941-53)" (Sophie Manson)

"'Conferenza stampa' and 'berlina-coup�': nominal compounds in contemporary Italian" (Natalie Scoones)

"The dialect of Anghebeni di Vallarsa (prov. Trento)" (Anna Garvey)

"A film for the 'virtuale futuro spettatore continentale': How dialect is used in Marco Tullio Giordana's I cento passi" (Helena Bujalka)

"Patterns of language acquisition, maintenance and shift in an Italian migrant family in Australia" (Concettina Martella)


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