English PhD Alumni Network & Placement Information - Current Alumni Positions

Current Alumni Positions
Name Ph.D. Year Dissertation title Current Position
Howard Robert Coase 2025 “A viable breathing substance”: The Poetics of Atmosphere in the Work of Barbara Guest Harper-Wood Student (St John’s College, University of Cambridge)
Sophie Eyssette 2025 Taboo Language and Incest in the French and British Press: A Cross-Linguistic Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (2017–2022) Research fellow (Sapienza)
Giulia Magro 2025 “Let the Past Teach You”: An Ecocritical Analysis of Medievalism in Selected Works of Twentieth-Century United States Science Fiction Holding teaching qualifications recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education
Sara Riccetti 2025 Sovereign Performances: Indigenous Women’s Theatre and the Legal and Political Work of Decolonization in the U.S. and Canada  
Remo Appolloni 2025 The Standardisation of Suffixes and Definitions in Noun Taxonomies: A Preliminary Corpus-Based and Data-Based Analysis of the Early Modern English Microlanguage of Economics (1572–1664) Adjunct professor in English Language and Translation (Sapienza)
Giovanni Raffa 2025 Italian Subtitling Solutions for English-Language Stand-Up Comedy Research fellow (Sapienza)
Cristiana Brunetti 2025 Hart Crane: poesie, prose e lettere. Per un approccio critico e teorico alla traduzione Serving as a permanent teacher in Italian state secondary schools
Joanna Ryszka 2024 The Impact of the British-Japanese Relations on British English: A Diachronic Sociolinguistic Study Adjunct professor in English and Japanese (University of Silesia in Katowice)
Angelo Arminio 2024 On the Frontlines of Fiction: Authority and Fictionality in American Veteran Narratives of the War on Terror Adjunct professor in English Language and Translation (University of Bergamo)
Emiliana Russo 2024 An Investigation into Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation (OP): Systematising Debates and Data, and Exploring OP at the Globe in the 21st Century Serving as a permanent teacher in Italian state secondary schools
Daphne Orlandi 2023 The Permanent Literature of the Human Race: Ralph Waldo Emerson and World Literature Research fellow (University of Catania)
Davide Passa 2023 Fictional Gay Men and Gayspeak in Twenty First Century British Drama Serving as a permanent teacher in Italian state secondary schools
Giacomo Traina 2023 The Voice that Carries Everything: History and Confession in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer Research fellow (Sapienza), Adjunct professor in Anglo-American Literature (University of Trieste)
Ester Maurizi 2022 Critical Discourse Analysis and Identity Construction in the U.S. Magazine Good Housekeeping from the 1920s to the 1940s Serving as a permanent teacher in Italian state secondary schools
Irena Skendo 2022 Corpus-Assisted Analysis of the Language of Tourism in Albanian English Professor (Foreign Languages Department, University of Vlora “Ismail Qemali”) 
Tiziano De Marino 2021 H.G. Wells and the Empire: The Artist and the Intellectual Research fellow (Sapienza), Adjunct professor in English Literature (Sapienza)
Isabella Marinaro 2021 Pedagogical Stylistics and World Literature in Italian licei Serving as a permanent teacher in Italian state secondary schools
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi 2021 Uncovering History through Testimony: A Traumatic Account of Aboriginal Peoples in Canadian Residential Schools Research fellow (Sapienza), Adjunct professor in English Literature and in English Language and Translation (Sapienza)
Luca Valleriani 2021 Upper-Class English in Natural and Audiovisual Dialogue Research fellow (University of Tuscia), Adjunct professor in English Language and Translation (Sapienza)
Yuri Chung 2020 Modernism and Melodrama: Modernism and Its Effects on the Operatic “Text” Adjunct professor in English Literature (Sapienza)
Alessandra Crotti 2020 The Reception of the Affaire Dreyfus in British Literature and Culture, 1894–1940 Research fellow (Sapienza), Adjunct professor in English Literature (Sapienza)
Ali Dehdarirad 2020 “The map is not the territory”: A spatial Reading of Pynchon’s California Trilogy Research fellow (Sapienza), Adjunct professor in Anglo-American Literature (Sapienza)
Anna Ferrari 2020 Death Camp: Black Humor and Camp in AIDS Literature Adjunct professor in English Language and Translation (Sapienza; University of Florence)
Jonathan Jones 2020 Three Comrades: Gatsby, Diver, Stahr and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Re-Invention of Failure Adjunct professor in English Composition (John Cabot University)

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