Lucia Casiraghi
Non parlo mica così in real life: Italian Youth’s Translanguaging Practices on Social Media (defended July 2024)

Nicolò Salmaso
The Myth of Raffaella Carrà: Female Stardom in Post-1968 Italy 
(defended July 2024)

Pantalea Mazzitello
Cursing and Laughing: Blasphemy in Italian Renaissance Literature
(defended May 2024) 

Leonardo Cabrini
Tele-Cinefilia RAI (1975-2005) (defended June 2023)

Marzia Bagnasco
A Disputed Country: Italy, Migrants, and National Identity in Contemporary Films and Documentaries (defended May 2021)

Francesco Samarini
Philip Roth e l’Italia (defended March 2021)

Carlotta Vacchelli
La funzione-Pazienza. L’influenza di Andrea Pazienza nel graphic novel italiano (defended September 2020)

Luisa Garrido Baez
La gamificazione come risorsa educativa: Motivazione, acquisizione e differenziazione nei corsi universitari online di lingua straniera(defended September 2020)

Sara Dallavalle
Auteur comics magazines in Italy: the case of Orient Express (1982–1985) (defended August 2020)

Lino Mioni
From Manuscript to Print: The Case of Maestro Martino’s Libro De Arte Coquinaria (defended May 2020)

Roberto Borfecchia
Straniamento e identità nella letteratura migratoria del Novecento: alcuni casi italiano/americani (defended April 2020)

Giulia Benghi
MS Bodmer 131: i Fragmenta e le Disperse di Petrarca (defended January 2020)

Rosa Borgonovi
Un Piano Dalton virtuale per l’italiano LS: scongiurare la distopia attraverso percorsi individuali, collaborazione e responsabilità sociale nell’apprendimento online (defended May 2019)

Carlotta Paltrinieri
Treatises of Art in XIV-XVI century Italy: Contributions to the Intellectual Emancipation of Art and Artists (defended July 2018)

Lucia Gemmani
The Materiality of Battle: Warfare between Fiction and Reality in Italian Renaissance and Baroque Literature, Music and Theater (defended April 2018)

Lisa Dolasinski
Screening Sterile Masculinity: On Male Migrants, Italian Men, and the Future of Italy (defended November 2017)

Sandro Puiatti
Proto-typi Libri Dantis: Fortuna del modello editorial e culturale di Giovanni Boccaccio (defended 2017)

Isabella Magni
The Digital Reconstruction of Petrarch’s Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta (defended 2016)

Marianna Orsi
Virgin Martyrs, Suicide Virgins, Sinner Virgins: Chastity Between Virtue and Transgression in Italian Literature from the XV to the XVI Century (defended 2016)

David Winkler
The Other Consequences of Interpretation: Survivor Literature on Holocaust Memory (defended 2016)

Edward Bowen
Nuovi Cinema Paradiso?: Closure, Urban Renewal, and Grassroots Movements in Rome, 1993-2014 (defended 2015)

Anna Love
From Silence to Advocacy: Identity and the Written Word in Medieval and Early Modern Italian Convents (defended 2015)

Andrea Polegato
Il linguaggio politico del primo Machiavelli: prudenza, virtù e giustizia nelle lettere amministrative e diplomatiche (1498-1503) (defended 2015)

Mary Migliozzi
The Politics of Regional Language: Dialect Literature in Italian Periodicals During Fascism (defended 2014)

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)