Dr. M. Cristina Mauceri

PhD (USyd), MA (UNSW), Dott. Lingue Lett. Stran. Univ. Genova)
Cassamarca Lecturer
m.c.mauceri@arts.usyd.edu.au

Research areas

My main research fields are Italophone migrant literature, the history of literary themes and crosscultural relationships.

I am involved in three projects with Italian Academics:

Nuovo Planetario Italiano. Guida alla letteratura della migrazione
This project, coordinated by Prof Armando Gnisci of the University of Roma La Sapienza, aims at mapping all migrant writers publishing in Italian in Italy. I will write one of the two introductory chapters “Scrivere ovunque diaspore europee e migrazione planetaria” as well as the chapter “L’Europa venuta dall’Europa (dall’Albania alla Russia)”.
Italianismi all’Estero. A collection of essays.
I will co-author a chapter in the first volume with Prof. Camilla Bettoni of the University of Verona on the influence of Italy on Australian culture. In the second volume I will write another chapter, more specifically linguistic, on Italianisms in Australian English and their sociolinguistic distribution.
Dizionari dei temi letterari, coordinated by Prof. R. Ceserani, M. Dominichelli e P. Fasano. I have written the entries on Adolescence, the Mouse and the Shadow. The Dictionary should be published next year

“La straniera di Tawfik: un dialogo tra culture” in Studi di Italianistica dell'Africa Australe, June 2003.
“Helga Schneider: la scrittura come testimonianza” in: Kúmá. Creolizzare l’Europa, n. 6, Aprile 2003.
“Le parole liberano l’anima: intervista con Christiana de Caldas Brito", Kúmá. Creolizzare l’Europa, 8 (2004).
"Igiaba Scego: la seconda generazione di autori transnazionali sta già emergendo”, El Ghibli n. 4 (June 2004).
“La scrittura come ponte tra due culture e realtà diverse” Afterword to the collection of short stories by Christiana de Caldas Brito, Qui e là, Isernia: Cosmo Iannone, 2004
“Writing outside the borders: personal experience and history in the works of Helga Schneider and Helena Janeczek” in Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives, edited by Susanna Scarparo and Rita Wilson, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004.

“La straniera di Tawfik: un dialogo tra culture” paper presented at the first ACIS Conference in Canberra in September 2001.
“La letteratura italiana della migrazione nei curricula universitari europei e nordamericani”, paper presented at the conference Diaspore Europee & Lettere Migranti in Rome in June 2002.
“Writing outside the borders: personal experience and history in the works of Helga Schneider and Helena Janeczek”, paper presented at the second ACIS Conference in Perth in July 2003
“ Andare e non tornare: i finali in alcuni romanzi di autori migranti italofoni”, paper presented at the conference Il dispatrio e i confini letterari at the Università di Roma “La Sapienza” in March 2005.

2004 & 2005 Member of the Selection Committee for the Dante Alighieri Literary Prize