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Dr Mucignat was awarded a PhD in Comparative Literature by King’s College London in 2009.  She holds a BA and MA in Italian and Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna, where she was a member of the Collegio Superiore.

Dr Mucignat's research interests include:

• the novel in 19th century Europe
• literary geography; the idea of space in narrative
• the Romantic myth of Italy
• modern Italian literature

Dr Mucignat wrote her doctoral thesis on spatiality in a group of European novels of the 19th century, including Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park, Stendhal’s The Red and the Black, and Alessandro Manzoni’s I Promessi sposi. She would be interested in supervising students in any of the above or related areas.

Books:

• Realism and Space in the Novel, 1795–1869, London: Ashgate, 2013

Dr Mucignat teaches or contributes to the following post-graduate courses:

• Forms of Shorter Narrative
• The Novel in 18th century Europe
• Literature of Empire
• Travel Writing
• Romantic Britain and Italy
• Comparative Readings

• the novel in 19th century Europe
• literary geography; the idea of space in narrative
• the Romantic myth of Italy
• modern Italian literature