(Dott. Lett. Urbino, MA UCL, PhD University of Birmingham) – was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham for the project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: interart/intermedia, and is now Lecturer in Italian at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining this project, she was Senior Lecturer of Media Theory at the Media School of the University of Bournemouth (2014-2015), Senior Lecturer of Italian at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London (2013-2014) and Visiting Professor at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, UOC, Barcelona in 2011. Her research interests range across a variety of areas, including modern and contemporary Italian culture, cultural representations of Dante, comparative literature, digital cultures. She has published on 20th and 21st Century culture, with a particular focus on Pasolini and Dante, postwar debates on realism, experimental literature and digital humanities. She is author of Pasolini After Dante: the Divine Mimesis and the Politics of Representation (Legenda, 2016), as well as the co-edited book Transmedia: Storia, memoria e narrazioni attraverso i media (Mimesis, 2014) and the edited book La nuova gioventù? L’eredità intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini (Joker, 2009). In 2016 she has edited two special issues on experimental narratives from the avant-gardes to the digital age: Experimental Narratives: From the Novel to Digital Storytelling, a special issue of the Journal of Comparative Critical Studies, 13.3 and Reading Practices in Experimental Narratives: A Comparative Perspective from Print to Digital Fiction in Modern Languages, a special issue of the Journal of Romance Studies, 16.1. She was editorial co-director of the International Journal of McLuhan Studies, senior editor of the Journal of Romance Studies, general series editor of Cultural Memories (Peter Lang) and she is a member of the executive committee of the Society for Italian Studies. Patti’s contribution to Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia is focused on the Digital Age, Interart/Intermedia theory and artistic practices, and on interdisciplinary/intermedia research and teaching methodologies. Patti was also the blog editor and digital media manager for the project.
