© 2025 Beatrice Sica.

Beatrice Sica

I have taught many different courses at both postgraduate and undergraduate level, and also language courses from beginners to advanced. I regularly supervise PhD students as well as MA and BA students writing their dissertations.

Courses taught

ITALIAN LANGUAGE

  • all levels

BA

  • Italian culture during Fascism

  • The Italian Novel, 1900-1950

  • Italian Futurism

  • Poesia italiana tra Otto e Novecento

  • Reading European Poetry

  • From Futurism to Surrealism: European Avant-Gardes before and after the First World War

  • How to Read Texts

MA

  • Modern Literary Theory : Fantastic and Magical Realism

  • Contemporary Italian Cultures

  • The Language of Images and the Nature of Connections

  • L’Italia dei cavalieri : letteratura, arte, politica e ideologia al galoppo dall’Unità a oggi

  • Modern Charisma, Men on Horseback, and Political Leadership

  • Literature and the Arts

Supervisions

PhD

  • Sarah Moxham, UCL, AHRC-LAHP funded, 2022 (first supervisor): Poetic Happenings: The Interactions of French and Italian Poetry in Print and Performance Art, 1958 to 1981
  • Sara Sermini, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Lugano, 2021 (first supervisor): Dare voce. Pratiche e poetiche di povertà nell'Italia del secondo dopoguerra 
  • Olga Campofreda, UCL, 2020 (first supervisor): Dalla generazione all’individuo. Giovinezza, identità, impegno nell’opera di Pier Vittorio Tondelli
  • Barbara Pycinska-Taylor, UCL, AHRC funded, 2020 (second supervisor): Schizomorphic Visions: Visuality and Dissenting Subjectivities in the Poetry of the Italian Neoavanguardia 
  • Stefano Bellin, UCL, 2019 (third supervisor): The Shame of Being Human: A Philosophical Reading of Primo Levi 

MA

  • 19 students since 2012-13

BA

  • 12 students since 2012-13

© 2025 Beatrice Sica.