Professor in Italian

BA, PhD (Bristol)

Contact Details

• Email: slw26@le.ac.uk
• Telephone: + 44 (0)116 252 2655
• Office: 1112
• Office hours: Tuesday 9.30am - 11.30.am
• Subject: Italian

Research Summary

Professor Wood’s research interests include modern narrative and theatre and women’s writing. She is the author of Italian women’s writing 1860-1994 (London 1995) and co-editor of the Cambridge History of Women’s Writing in Italy (Cambridge 2000). Forthcoming books are on Elsa Morante and Grazia Deledda. Translations from Italian include texts by Romana Petri, Susanna Tamaro and Primo Levi.

Professor Wood is a member of the editorial board for Italian Studies.

Research Student Supervision

Professor Wood currently supervises the following students:

• Kate Litherland, Pulp narrative and youth culture
• Monica Boria, Politics, satire and the Italian media

Teaching and Administration

Teaching:

• Italian Women’s Writing
• Modern Italian Theatre
• History and Identity in Twentieth-Century Italy

Administration:

• External examiner at the universities of Bristol, Dublin UCD and Manchester Metropolitan
• External examiner for PhDs at London, Cambridge, Warwick and Hull
• Departmental review assessor in Bristol, Hull, NUI Galway
• International referee for departments in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, South Africa

Recent Publications

Transition and Transformation: 1950s Italy’ in Women and 1950s Italy, ed. Penny Morris. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2005

‘Contemporary women’s theatre’ in Cambridge Companion to Italian Theatre, eds Joseph Farrell and Paolo Puppa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005

Full listing of publications