Giacomo Lichtner
Teaching
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as Coordinator and Lectureras Coordinator and Lecturer
Qualifications
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), PhD (University of Reading).
Administrative responsibilities
- Oversees undergraduate individual courses of study in accordance with the Academic Progress Statute and all other relevant policies.
- Oversees the enrolment, progression and examination of postgraduate students in the Wellington Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
- Represents the Faculty with regard to postgraduate student issues in the University.
- Participates as appropriate in other initiatives aimed at improving the experience of undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Faculty.
Teaching responsibilities
- Instructor, HIST118: Modern Europe.
- Course Coordinator, HIST237: Mobilising the Masses—Propaganda in Interwar Europe.
- Course Coordinator, HIST339: History on Film/Film on History.
- Course Coordinator, HIST423: Film and the Holocaust.
Boards and committees
- Convenor of the Faculty Postgraduate Committee.
- Ex-officio member of the Wellington Faculty of Graduate Research Board.
- Ex-officio member of the Joint Research Committee.
Research areas
- Cinema’s role in constructing and conveying memories of the ‘long Second World War’ in Europe.
- Holocaust history, representation and the politics of memory.
- 20th C. Italian history, especially the cultural history of fascist and post-fascist Italy.
- Theoretical and methodological encounters between History and Film.
- Indian cinema; postcolonial cinemas and the representation of the ‘subaltern’.