Romance languages


Department of Romance Languages

Head: Professor Brian Nelson

Members of staff and their fields of special interest

PHILIP ANDERSON Contemporary French poetry; narrative theory.
JACK BURSTON French linguistics, especially phonological, syntactic and semantic analysis; computer applications to foreign language teaching.
MIRNA CICIONI Italian socio-linguistics; post World War 2 Italian Jewish writers, especially Primo Levi; women in twentieth-century Italy.
MARISA CORDELLA Applied Spanish linguistics; pragmatics; socio-linguistics in Spanish.
PATRICK DUREL Language teaching methodology; applied linguistics
RAFFAELE LAMPUGNANI Dante; contemporary Italian literature and history; Italo-Australian texts; cinema studies.
AMANDA MACDONALD French cultural studies; popular culture; semiotics.
MONITA MASCITTI-MEUTER Twentieth-century Latin American literature, women's writing and multimedia applications to foreign language teaching
BRIAN NELSON Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, especially the late nineteenth-century novel (Zola, Huysmans, etc.).
ANNAMARIA PAGLIARO Nineteenth-century realist literature, especially De Roberto, Capuana, Verga and Serao.
JORGE PAREDES Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature; postmodernism; feminist literature; modern and contemporary Spanish American literature and culture.
STEPHAN RIEDEL Women writing; textual theory; Dante; 20th Century literature; homotextualities.
SALLY STADDON Intercultural business communication; computer applications to language teaching; teaching languages for special purposes.

Doctor of Philosophy

Course code: 0020
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
The degree of PhD is taken by the submission of a thesis not exceeding 100,000 words on a topic approved by the head of the department. Students enrolled in the first instance for an MA may be permitted to transfer to PhD if their subject and their progress warrant this. Graduate students enrolled for the PhD are expected to participate in department research seminars. Candidature is completed in three years full-time or six years part-time. For further information, please consult the Doctoral information handbook which is produced by the Research Training and Support Branch.

Entry requirements

Students seeking entry to the PhD should normally have an MA or first or second class division A honours degree in an appropriate discipline or MQual with a research component with a grade of H2A or above.

Master of Arts in romance languages by research

Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Candidates for the degree of MA in the Department of Romance Languages will normally proceed to the degree by coursework and research. Suitably qualified candidates may be granted permission to proceed to the degree by 100 per cent research (40,000-60,000 words).

Master of Arts in French by coursework and research

Graduate coordinator: Professor Brian Nelson
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa

Objectives

Students successfully completing the MA in French by coursework and research should have gained greater understanding of a special field in French studies and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.

Entry requirement

The minimum requirement for entry to the program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in French or its equivalent.

Course structure

The program will normally be as follows:
(i) FRM5100 Special French reading course (eight or sixteen points)
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or centre in the Faculty of Arts (this subject will not be taken if FRM5100 is taken in its sixteen-point form)
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25,000-35,000 words.

Master of Arts in Italian by coursework and research

Graduate coordinator: Mr Raffaele Lampugnani
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa

Objectives

Students successfully completing the MA in Italian by coursework and thesis should have gained greater understanding of a special field in Italian studies and of a related topic in another discipline and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.

Entry requirement

The minimum requirement for entry to the program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in Italian or its equivalent.

Course structure

The program will be as follows:
(i) ITM5960.08 Special Italian reading course;
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or centre in the Faculty of Arts;
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25,000-35,000 words.

Master of Arts in Spanish

Graduate coordinator: Mr Jorge Paredes
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa

Objectives

Students successfully completing the MA in Spanish by coursework and research should have gained greater understanding of a special field in Spanish studies and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.

Entry requirement

The minimum requirement for entry to the MA program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in Spanish or its equivalent.

Course structure

The program will be as follows:
(i) SPM5960.08 Special Spanish reading course;
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or centre in the Faculty of Arts;
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25-35,000 words.