Dr Francesco Ricatti
BA(Hons) Rome La Sapienza, PhD Syd.
Position: Cassamarca Lecturer, Italian
Office: D1.21
Tel: +61 7 5430 1185
Email: fricatti@usc.edu.au
Teaching areas
- Italian Language and Culture
Research areas
- Italian migration to Australia
- Italian popular culture
- Football and globalisation
Professional membership
- Australasian Centre for Italian Studies
- Australian Historical Association
Profile
Francesco Ricatti is the Cassamarca Lecturer in Italian. In 1999 he graduated in Contemporary Italian Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza and recently completed his PhD at the University of Sydney. The title of Francesco's PhD thesis was Embodying Italian migrants: impossible dialogues, spectral fantasies and the body. Letters to Mamma Lena (La Fiamma, 1956-1964).
His main research interest focuses on the relation between body and popular culture in Italian and transnational contexts.
Publications
Many of Dr Francesco Ricatti's publications are available from the USC Coast Research Database.
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