I obtained my Ph.D in English Literature from the University of Malta with a thesis entitled A Thematic-Semiotic Comparison of Five Wuthering Heights Film Adaptations. My main areas of research are Film Appropriations and Film Theory with a special focus on foreign film versions of English literary works.
My most recent publications include Truth Beauty as Waking Dream: Hitchcock's Vertigo and the Mystic Oxymoron of Keats' Poetry (Literature/Film Quarterly 40.1, 2016); Ferrying Nothingness: The Charon Motif in Murnau's Nosferatu and Dreyer's Vampyr (Melita Classica 3, 2016); The Undying Light: Yoshida, Bataille and the Ambivalent Spectrality of Brontë's Wuthering Heights published in The Brontë Sisters in Other Wor(l)ds (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); Signifying Nothing: Bresson's Lancelot du Lac and the Arthurian Paradoxism of Tennyson's Idylls (Merope: 23. 59/60, 2014). I have also published articles in Brontë Studies, Entertext, Literature/Film Quarterly, Merope and Studia Filmoznawcze and contributed book chapters to the anthologies Adapting Poe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Shared Waters (co-authored/Rodopi, 2009) and World-Wide Shakespeares (Routledge, 2005). I am currently working on transcultural appropriations of Wuthering Heights on film including El Sheikh's Al Gharib, Kardar's Dil Diya Dard Liya, Fazil's Dehleez, and Siguion-Reyna's Hihintayin Kita Sa Langit.
I was the lecturer to introduce Film Studies at the University of Malta. The film units I introduced include not only Development of Film Language and Classical and Contemporary Film Theory (within the Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences) but also Medieval Literature into Film, Shakespearean Film, and Modern and Post-Modern Novel into Film (within the Department of English, Faculty of Arts). I am also a principal lecturer within the Interdepartmental Masters Programme in Literary Tradition and Popular Culture and the highly innovative Masters Programme in Film Studies developed by Prof. Gloria Lauri Lucente. Within these programmes I lecture together with Prof. Lauri Lucente on Film Technology and the Literary Canon and Film Adaptation, the Literary Tradition and Other Arts.
