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Interdisciplinary Materials for the Secondary School Classroom
For the Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference in Durham in the summer of 2013, I was invited (in the context of this research project) to talk about interdisciplinarity in the secondary...
Will-o’-the-Wisping, in Word and Image
“Logic will train your mind all right; / Like inquisitor’s boots it will squeeze you tight”, exclaims Mephistopheles when he meets the Student in the third scene of Faust: Part One, and...
Specialization or Interdisciplinarity? This is the Dilemma…
If in 1603 the popular question was ‘to be or not to be?’, nowadays it is ‘to be specialised or to be interdisciplinary?’. Never was there a question of more woe than...
‘Italiani brava gente’ as a Transmedial Phenomenon
[This post gathers some preliminary ideas developed during the RHUL Research Training Programme in Interart/Intermedia methodologies] When the Italians remember the Second World War the main events that come to their minds...
Between Neorealism and Free Cinema: Lorenza Mazzetti’s Together
[On Monday 10th September 2018, UCL and the Slade School of Fine Art will award an Honorary Fellowship to director and writer Lorenza Mazzetti. The event will take place at the British...
What Role for Collaborative Research in Italian Studies?
Traditionally modelled around a ‘lone scholar’ approach, research in the arts and humanities has been shifting in recent years towards collaborative practices more familiar to scholars in the social and natural sciences....
Intermediality and Criminological Writing
[This post gathers some preliminary ideas developed during the RHUL Research Training Programme in Interart/Intermedia methodologies] The interplay between criminology and literature was one of the defining features of late nineteenth-century Italian...
Massini’s Lehman Trilogy: An Epic Theatrical Poem in Cinematic Cut
The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini (Firenze, 1975) presents a new form of writing which combines the metrical structure of a highly poetic and rhythmic prose as in a ballad, with theatrical/cinematic...
The Futurist Environments as ‘Opera d’Arte Totale’
[This post gathers some preliminary ideas developed during the RHUL Research Training Programme in Interart/Intermedia methodologies] The Futurist opera d’arte totale (or ‘total work of art’) consisted of the decoration of environments...