Subject areas

Italian

Language variation and change (particularly at the level of phonetics and phonology and with relevance to Opera)
Italian Opera (especially early works)
Italian philology (accents and dialect acquisition)
Usage-based phonetics/phonology
The teaching of grammar and pronunciation
Vowel/colour/register perception of poetic texts 
Folk customs of Italy and contemporary paganism.
The literature of united Italy (1870- 1910): classicism, naturalism and verismo.