SIS award for Laura Albertini

Laura Albertini has been awarded the 2023 Society of Italian Studies Postgraduate Runner-up Prize for her PhD dissertation, 'Itineraries of Landscape Responsibility in Paolo Rumiz's Travel Writing on Italy'.

Laura’s thesis expands the existing critical work on the Italian author engaging with the ongoing scholarly debate on ethics and travel writing. Expanding the theoretical framework of reference within this debate, her thesis draws on theories of ethics of responsibility within environmental ethics to investigate the use of travel accounts to build and promote landscape responsibility.

The Society for Italian Studies (SIS) Prize aims to raise the profile of Italian Studies at British and Irish Universities both at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels, and to reward the excellent research being carried out in the discipline.