Glen Bonnici is an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Italian where he teaches Italian language and literature, comparative literature and film studies. By adopting a transnational and cross-disciplinary method of inquiry, he researches Italian literature and cinema, comparative literature, Anglo-Italian studies, and literary theory. Topics of interest include the ever-increasing occurrence of film and television productions adapted from literature, spatial representation in fiction, and metareferential techniques in narrative works, amongst others. His ongoing Ph.D. studies examine self-reflexive devices in auteur cinema. He is an Editorial Assistant in the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, a fully peer-reviewed English-language publication. He collaborates closely with the Principal Editor by preparing submissions for print and translating articles into English.