Recent PhD Defenses in Italian
- Carla Bicoff, "Human Nature and the Humanity of Nature: A Critical Translation of Erri de Luca's In Nome Della Madre and Il Peso della Farfalla" (defended 2013)
- Angela Porcarelli, "La Tradizione della Beffa e la Novella del Grasso legnaiuolo" (defended 2012)
- Anthony Nussmeier, "The Politics of Literary Script: DE VULGARI ELOQUENTIA 1303-1589" (defended 2012)
- Ermanno Conti, "Gli "Anni Di Piombo" Nella Letteratura Italiana" (defended 2012)
- Nicholas Albanese, "Imagining Sicily: Representation and the Cultural Poetics in Contemporary Italian Historical Fiction" (defended 2011)
- Ioana Larco, "Facets of female identity in autobiographical writings during the interwar period in Italy." (defended 2011)
- Valerio Cappozzo, "The Science of Dreams and Early Italian Poetry: The Somniale Danielis in Medieval and Humanistic Miscellanies." (defended 2010)
- Andrea Scapolo, "La presenza di Antonio Gramsci nell'opera di Dario Fo." (defended 2010)
- Federico Pacchioni, "Federico Fellini and His Scriptwriters: A Collaborative Analysis." (defended 2010)
- Jelena Todorović: "Reading Cultures in Dante's Vita Nova." (defended 2009)
- Stefano Giulizia, "Mercurio a teatro. Cultura testuale e poetica del comico tra Medioevo e Umanesimo." (defended 2008)
- Fabio Benincasa, "Barocco e neo-Barocco. Percorsi autoriali nel cinema italiano. Fellini, Antonioni, Pasolini." (defended 2008)
