Dr Caroline Lynch

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Research

My research interests include female remembrance and representation of the Second World War in Italy. I am particularly interested in the way in which the rise of second wave feminism the substantial developments made in the field of women’s history as well as an increased interest in the Second World War during the 1970s brought about a rewriting of the history of World War Two from a female perspective.

Teaching

I teaching across a range of Italian language, culture and translation modules. 

Currently, I design and deliver the final year Student Teaching Module - a module where students explore pedadogical theories and approaches to teaching and learning generally and language teaching specifically. As part of this module, students undertake work-placements as Language classroom assistants in a variety of settings - in partnership with secondary schools in the South Wales area and in the University's Languages for All programme. 

I also lead and deliver a year 2 Whose Culture is it Anyway? module that explores questions of representation, identity, power, resistance and memory in an Italian context.  Students taking this module think critically about Italian Fascism, female experience of war and resistance during WWII, representations of left and right wing terrorism in 1970s Italy and questions of gender and identity in contemporary Italian society.   

More widely my teaching interests lie in the field of (Italian) language teaching, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, history, culture and film. I have previously taught and co-ordinated Italian langage modules, as well as modules on the culture of Italian Fascism, Italian memories of the Second World War, the unification of Italy (literary and cinematic perceptions of the Risorgimento), adaptations in European Cinema, Innovations in European Literature, modern Italian texts (literary and cinematic) and contemporary Italy (history, culture and society).

Biography

I graduated from University College Cork, Ireland in 2003 with a first class honours BA in Language and Culture Studies (Italian and English). I completed an MA with distinction in European Studies at Cardiff University in 2005. I was awarded my PhD in Italian Studies at the University of Bristol in 2012.  My thesis explored the various ways in which Italian women remember and represent female experiences of the Second World War.

Before joining Cardiff University I worked as a Lecturer in Bangor University and as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Bristol.