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Dr Rosa Mucignat
Reader in Comparative Literature
Research interests
- Literature
Biography
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.
Research interests
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.
For more details, please see her full research profile.
Research
![Vis Culture](/newimages/research/hero/vis-culture.xefe31204.jpeg?w=780&h=519&crop=780,440,0,0&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Visual Culture
The Visual Culture research group is a network of scholars within King’s College London working across a diverse historical range of film, art, and performance.
![Activist in Residence](/newimages/researchproject/thumb-2021/activist-in-residence.x5f964846.png?width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
The Activist-in-Residence Scheme
Connecting researchers and activists to address societal problems.
Project status: Ongoing
![Napoleone_entra_a_Milano_Bagetti.width-800](/newimages/researchproject/thumb-2021/napoleone-entra-a-milano-bagetti.width-800.xbc6cb190.jpg?w=780&h=517&crop=780,440,0,39&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
Understanding how a transnational revolutionary idiom was adapted, resisted or rejected in the effort to create new political tools for action.
Project status: Completed
News
Faculty of Arts & Humanities launches innovative Activist-in-Residence Scheme
A new initiative run by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities seeks to explore mutually beneficial connections between activism and academic research.
![Activist-in-Residence Scheme](/newimages/ah/news-story-thumbs-air.xa596a8b7.png?f=webp)
Departments of French and Comparative Literature at King's awarded £1M grant
A team led by Dr Sanja Perovic from the Department of French has been awarded a circa £1M AHRC Standard Grant to fund a research programme involving the...
![Image: King's College London, Strand Campus](/newimages/main/NEV-main-StrandCampus-Georgian-front.xe6a44b5d.jpg?crop=780,440,0,5&f=webp)
Events
![VWBexteriorwithbike](/ImportedImages/Schools/Artshums/VWBexteriorwithbike.x98bbcedf.jpg?w=780&h=520&crop=780,440,0,40&f=webp)
Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France and Italy
Join Dr Rosa Mucignat and Dr Sanja Perovic at the Department of French research seminar
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
![Vis Culture](/newimages/research/hero/vis-culture.xefe31204.jpeg?w=780&h=519&crop=780,440,0,0&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Visual Culture
The Visual Culture research group is a network of scholars within King’s College London working across a diverse historical range of film, art, and performance.
![Activist in Residence](/newimages/researchproject/thumb-2021/activist-in-residence.x5f964846.png?width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
The Activist-in-Residence Scheme
Connecting researchers and activists to address societal problems.
Project status: Ongoing
![Napoleone_entra_a_Milano_Bagetti.width-800](/newimages/researchproject/thumb-2021/napoleone-entra-a-milano-bagetti.width-800.xbc6cb190.jpg?w=780&h=517&crop=780,440,0,39&width=380&height=215&fit=crop&f=webp)
Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France and Italy (1789-1815)
Understanding how a transnational revolutionary idiom was adapted, resisted or rejected in the effort to create new political tools for action.
Project status: Completed
News
Faculty of Arts & Humanities launches innovative Activist-in-Residence Scheme
A new initiative run by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities seeks to explore mutually beneficial connections between activism and academic research.
![Activist-in-Residence Scheme](/newimages/ah/news-story-thumbs-air.xa596a8b7.png?f=webp)
Departments of French and Comparative Literature at King's awarded £1M grant
A team led by Dr Sanja Perovic from the Department of French has been awarded a circa £1M AHRC Standard Grant to fund a research programme involving the...
![Image: King's College London, Strand Campus](/newimages/main/NEV-main-StrandCampus-Georgian-front.xe6a44b5d.jpg?crop=780,440,0,5&f=webp)
Events
![VWBexteriorwithbike](/ImportedImages/Schools/Artshums/VWBexteriorwithbike.x98bbcedf.jpg?w=780&h=520&crop=780,440,0,40&f=webp)
Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture between Britain, France and Italy
Join Dr Rosa Mucignat and Dr Sanja Perovic at the Department of French research seminar
Please note: this event has passed.