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Category Archives: Postgraduate Research
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...
Report of the 3rd Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School: Collaboration and Co-Creation in Italian Studies
The 3rd Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School took place at Trinity College Dublin on 7-8 July 2022, was organised by Clodagh Brook and Cecilia Brioni with the support of the Irish Research Council...
Ornament as Crime: Carlo Emilio Gadda’s Sociology of Fashion
In Carlo Emilio Gadda’s modernist works, dress never constitutes a merely instrumental element of narrative. Rather, it serves to reflect the social habitus of a character, or its very habits of being....
‘Poesia Visiva: Use a Concrete Mixer.’ The Vanguard Intermediate Poetry in the 60s and 70s
In 1972, the Dutch visual poet Herman Damen published an outstanding critical text illustrating the daring and multifaceted expressions of neo-avant-garde experimental poetry as follows: ‘a living poesia visiva uses all available...
Tracing Transmedial Sameness
How can we identify meaningful transmedial points of contact between cultural practices in a way that doesn’t overlook the specific modes of expression inherent to different medial forms? My doctoral research has...
Writing in Images: Interartistic Encounters and the Genesis of Creative Writing in Leonardo Sciascia
Cultural history is full of examples of the fascinating interactions between art and literature. The verbal representation of an image known as ‘ekphrasis’, famously seen in Homer’s description of the shield of...
Wu Ming: Boundaries of Human and Posthuman Collaborations
Every time that someone asks me to explain what my research is about, I mumble and mumble without knowing where to start from. Are Wu Ming simply a ‘writing collective’? Wondering ‘what...
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...
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...