Italy

My doctoral research examines the role of beauty in landscape architecture theoretical discourse as it emerged as a field of studies in U.S. academia during the early decades of the twentieth century.

The Italian landscape has for centuries been a locus amoenus of male same-sex desire.

Aaron’s project contributes to his dissertation, A Revolutionary Gospel, which examines how Russian writers transformed their Christian heritage into a new socialist religion while exiled in the US and Italy between 1905 and 1917.

My dissertation reassesses the Jewish experience of Baroque Catholicism by moving away from models of Jewish victimhood and instead highlighting Jewish agency and savviness.

This project will try to fix the lack of diverse material that often we find while teaching a language.

In a reality characterized by massive global movements, it is fundamental to understand the wide range of perspectives involving their different social actors by investigating, for instance, the connections between the socio-political realities of both the mother country and the target one, as they are embodied in literature.

This project looks at the evolution of economic discourse in post-WWII Italy, with a specific focus on the annual reports authored and delivered to the public by the Italian Central Bank.

Which are the political reasons behind the migration movements involving the Global South at the beginning of the 20th Century?

My dissertation research seeks to understand the process of changing identities in the interior of Sardinia during the Middle and Late Bronze Age (c. 1600-850 BCE).