Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies
Italian Studies Program

Dr Nicole Prunster

Senior Lecturer & Program Coordinator Room: Humanities 3 209 Tel: (61 3) 9479 2422 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1453 Email: n.prunster@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: MA (Sydney), PhD (Toronto)

Teaching
People of Contemporary Italy: first-year (part of semester 1)
Renaissance Italy: second and third-years
Italian Advanced: second-year
Italian Beginners: first and third-years

Research Areas
16th century comic theatre and the novella, including Shakespeare's Italian and French sources.

Selected Publications

• Visions and Revisions: Women in Italian Culture (with Mirna Cicioni) 1993
  
• Antonio Tabucchi: A Collection of Essays (with Bruno Ferraro) 1996/97
  
• Romeo and Juliet before Shakespeare: Four Tales of Star-Crossed Love, 2000
  
• The Contemporary Italian Short Story, Spunti e Ricerche 18 2003
• Poliphony in Andrea Camilleri's Il Birraio di Preston, Spunti e Ricerche, 2008