News of the second phase of...
We are delighted to announce that we have won an AHRC standard grant of £680,000 to enable us to continue this project from summer 2015 until the end of 2018....
Mattia Petricola
A Girls’ Night Out with Dante and Virgil: Transforming the Divine Comedy in the Age of Fandom
Since at least the time of Conan Doyle and his Sherlock Holmes stories, every product of popular culture has had its fans (short for “fanatics”). Since at least the time of Star...
Conference ‘Il Gruppo 63 e le arti’ (16-17 November, Berne)
Please see below the program of the International Conference titled Il Gruppo 63 e le arti (November 16-17, University of Berne). Dr Emanuela Patti will present a paper entitled “L’opera aperta dalla Neoavanguardia...
Publications from the Interdisciplinary Italy Project Team on Intermedia
Research Outputs 2023 Here we share an updated list of publications from the current project team (Prof Clodagh Brook, Prof Giuliana Pieri, Prof Florian Mussgnug, Dr Adele Bardazzi, Dr Marco Bellardi, Dr...
Conference ‘Sull’orlo del visibile: Letterature comparate e visualità’ (Nov. 16-17 – Lugano)
Please see below the program of the 2023 Annual Conference of the Associazione svizzera di letteratura generale e comparata (ASLGC/SGAVL) titled Sull’orlo del visibile: Letterature comparate e visualità (November 16-17, Lugano – Università della Svizzera...
Transmedial Storyworlds and the Struggle Against Italian Colonial Amnesia
How do creative practitioners use transmedial praxis to illuminate Italian colonial amnesia and the persistence of colonial subjectivities today? During my doctoral research into how intermediality studies enrich our analysis of postcolonial...
The Lyric Put to the Test: Performance Poetry and Transmedia Gestures
Contrary to widespread viewpoints, recent developments in intermedial poetry seem to constitute a resurgence and intensification of particular features of lyric poetry rather than a break with tradition. Digital technology enables a...
Sketches of a Dialogue: The Correspondence Between Arnaldo Pomodoro and Francesco Leonetti
The correspondence between sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro and writer Francesco Leonetti, only recently analysed, has proven to be a significant source for reconstructing not only Leonetti’s biography but also some of the principles...
“Se le belle / sirene ci divoreranno”: Photographic Lyricism in Laura Pugno’s “Il colore oro”
The intermedial relationship between photography and poetic text in contemporary Italy has been the focal point of artistic practice for some of the most influential poets of the 21st century. Notable figures...
“Poi, come s’uno schermo”: Modernist Poetry and Cinema
Adorno, Kracauer, Ortega y Gasset: these are just a few of the thinkers who, at the turn of the 20th Century, expressed critical views on cinema and the way it affects its...
The Digital Videoessay: Getting Creative-Critical Audiovisually
Digital videoessay-making is an important strand in the present and future of academic communication, already used to disseminate research and results to general public and scholarly peers, and often used for teaching,...