Dr Conrad Aquilina

Dr Conrad Aquilina

Dr Conrad Aquilina

  B.A.(Hons)(Melit.),M.A.(Melit.),H.Dip.V.E.T.,Ph.D. (Dunelm.)

Visiting Senior Lecturer

Room 115
Car Park 6
University of Malta
Msida
  +356 2340 2151
Dr. Conrad Aquilina is a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Malta within the Institute of Linguistics and Language Technology, and the Departments of English, Media and Communications, Computer and Information Systems, and Mathematics and Science Education. He is also Senior Lecturer 2 and Subject Coordinator for English and Critical Thinking at the Malta College for the Arts, Sciences and Technology.

He holds a PhD in English Literature from Durham University, having written a doctoral thesis that explored simulation modelling as a poietic process in fictional world-building. Upcoming publications consequently focus on literary narratology and the philosophy of science, with previous research dominated by genre and film theory in horror and the gothic.

A monograph that explores narrative simulation and hypermimesis, concepts advanced in Aquilina's doctoral thesis, is the current project-in-process.
  • Narratology
  • Cognitive narratology
  • Simulation modelling
  • Fictional world ontologies
  • Hyperrealism and the hypermimetic
  • Genre literature (horror, the gothic, the fantastic)
  • Film and film theory
  • CIS5223 - Concepts, Techniques and Practical Aspects of Scientific Research
  • DGA5017 - Reflective Writing
  • LIN1063 - Academic Reading and Writing in English (Chemistry, Medical Biochemistry and Pharmacology)
  • LIN1063 - Academic Reading and Writing in English (ICT)
  • LIN1063 - Academic Reading and Writing in English (Medical Sciences)
  • LIN2013 - Dissertation Writing for Undergraduates
  • LIN5063 - Academic Reading, Writing and Speaking in English for Postgraduates (Addiction Studies)
  • LIN5063 - Academic Reading, Writing and Speaking in English for Postgraduates (Rural and Environmental Sciences)
  • MSS2015 - Popular Culture and Science
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