Teaching
Takoua Ben Mohamed, Sunglasses (detail) Comics and Graphic Novels: Memory and Transcultural Mobility
This module develops a language-sensitive approach to comics and graphic novels beyond the Anglosphere; the syllabus introduces the students to a series of linguistic and cultural contexts in which comics have been developed and translated since the 20th century. This is a transnational module that I designed and coordinate and is taught with colleagues specialists in Memory, Languages and Translation studies.
The module explores specifically the relationship between comics, memory and history. Some of the most engaging comics of our times represent marginalised histories of individuals and communities, and whole genres of comics today are committed to drawing attention and striving against historical and contemporary systems of oppression. Over the last decades, comics have started documenting forgotten histories, conveying testimonies and enabling forms of self-representation and transcultural belonging. Yet this medium has a long and complex history of depicting race and ethnicity, reinforcing discrimination and marginalisation and popularising colonial stereotypes. This module engages with such history, and with authors who are redrawing it.
Barbara Spadaro, TML Research Project Italy, Africa and the Mediterranean: Decolonial Perspectives
Italian
Modules for 2025-26
ADVANCED ITALIAN 7
Module code: ITAL207
Role: Teaching
ADVANCED ITALIAN 7+8
Module code: ITAL278
Role: Teaching
ADVANCED ITALIAN 8
Module code: ITAL208
Role: Teaching
ADVANCED ITALIAN 9
Module code: ITAL309
Role: Teaching
BEGINNERS ITALIAN 1+2
Module code: ITAL112
Role: Teaching
COMICS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS: MEMORY AND TRANSCULTURAL MOBILITY
Module code: MODL326
Role: Module Co-ordinator
ELEMENTARY ITALIAN 3+4
Module code: ITAL134
Role: Teaching
EXTENDED PROJECT IN ITALIAN
Module code: ITAL215
Role: Teaching
INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN 5
Module code: ITAL105
Role: Teaching
INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN 5+6
Module code: ITAL256
Role: Teaching
INTERMEDIATE ITALIAN 6
Module code: ITAL106
Role: Teaching
INTRODUCTION TO ITALIAN STUDIES I
Module code: ITAL120
Role: Teaching
INTRODUCTION TO ITALIAN STUDIES II
Module code: ITAL121
Role: Module Co-ordinator
ITALY, AFRICA AND THE MEDITERRANEAN: DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES
Module code: ITAL225
Role: Module Co-ordinator
PROFICIENT ITALIAN 10
Module code: ITAL310
Role: Teaching
PROFICIENT ITALIAN 11
Module code: ITAL311
Role: Teaching
TERROR REMEMBERED: REPRESENTING TRAUMATIC HISTORIES IN LATIN AMERICA, EUROPE AND CHINA
Module code: MODL304
Role: Teaching
TEXTS AND CONTEXTS IN ITALIAN
Module code: ITAL125
Role: Teaching
YEAR ABROAD PORTFOLIO (SEMESTER 1)
Module code: MODL220
Role: Teaching
YEAR ABROAD PORTFOLIO (SEMESTER 2)
Module code: MODL221
Role: Teaching
YEAR ABROAD SEMESTER 1 (STUDY IN EUROPE)
Module code: MODL215
Role: Teaching
YEAR ABROAD SEMESTER 2 (STUDY IN EUROPE)
Module code: MODL216
Role: Teaching