Our research Environment and Individual projects

Dr. Giuliana Adamo

My current book project is entitled Save the Mafia Children and it is based on historic, sociological, and pedagogical research on the life conditions of the children of mob families. My second project is devoted to the historic novel tradition, which is one of my main research areas. My third project is a work on Melodrama in opera and cinema from the 18th century to the present.

Clodagh Brook 

Contemporary Italian Cinema and the Post-secular: Religion, Identity, Dissent. This project investigates the place of religion – Catholicism, Islam, and emerging forms of spirituality – in Italian film. It explores both religion’s part in shaping the Italian cinema industry and in shaping films made for both the big and small screen. Monograph: Screening Religions in Italy: Contemporary Italian Cinema in the Post-Secular Public Sphere (the University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2019). Articles published in Italian Studies (2017), Modern Italy (2017), and book chapters (2015).

Dr. Igor Candido

Is currently working on a new commented edition of Petrarch’s De vita solitaria (Toronto University Press, under contract), and his next research project is tentatively titled The Genealogy of the Novel. Studies in the Origins and Silent Transmission of Western Narrative Fiction.