Successful Alumnus

Monday 29 August 2011

Eduardo Tasis Moratinos, who received his PhD last semester, has been successful in obtaining the post of Assistant Lecturer (on a twelve-month contract) at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference July 2011

Friday 29 July 2011

On 6th-9th July 2011, the Italian Department of the School of Modern Languages hosted the Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference, organised by Dr Claudia Rossignoli (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/sis2011/) with the invaluable support of administrators Barbara Fleming and Giovanna Della Cioppa (University of Bergamo), and students Chantal Gustaw and Hazel Tubman (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/modlangs/events/Title,71861,en.html).

Moving Venice: joint award

Friday 29 July 2011

Dr Laura Moretti (School of Art History) and Dr Claudia Rossignoli (Dept of Italian) received £5000 from SELF for their project 'Moving Venice: 10 Mini-documentaries for Teaching Early Modern Art and Culture'.

Erasmus Exchange Visitor from Bergamo

Monday 25 July 2011

Ms Giovanna Della Cioppa recently visited the School as an Erasmus Administrator’s Exchange. She had been to St Andrews for the Mundus Crossways AGM in 2009 so when she was given the opportunity to travel within the Erasmus exchange scheme, she thought of her Mundus colleagues in Scotland, and the friendly welcome from the office staff in the School of Modern Languages.

Summer activities

Wednesday 12 October 2011

Bernard Bentley’s summer activities

• June 9th 2011 presented a paper at the Scottish Consortium for Film and Visual Studies Annual Conference on “Film and Memory” (Stirling) “The presence of Memories in Guillermo del Toro’s El laberinto del fauno/Pan Labyrinth (2006)”
• Submitted article “The ‘Ars vivendi’ of Laura Mañà’s Morir en San Hilario/To Die in San Hilario (2005)” to Studies in European Cinema ISSN: 17411548; at present being peer reviewed.
• Carnegie Trust funding (£1582) to visit Filmoteca Española in Madrid to check archives for project entitled “Three specific examples of Spanish Film Censorship (1947, 1962, 1976)” – this covers two separate articles written and almost completed this Summer and awaiting integration of materials collected in the Filmoteca.
• Continuing his database of initial credit sequences.

Academic Promotion

Wednesday 08 June 2011

The School congratulates Dr Claire Whitehead, Dr David Evans and Dr Michael Gratzke on their promotion to Senior Lecturer. Read the full story

Alumni Reunion in June 2011

Thursday 14 July 2011

Well over a hundred alumni who graduated any time between the 1950s and the Noughties attended our recent reunion held in two stages. In the afternoon we gathered in the Buchanan Building most graduates will remember well.