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Category Archives: Theory
Forms and Ecosystems of Publication in Contemporary Italian Spoken Word
How does one publish spoken word poetry? The exceptional hybridity of this artistic practice – caught between liveness and the library, the performative dimension and the written page, the naked voice and...
Opera aperta: Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present
The convergence of electronic media and literary forms during the digital revolution has produced a variety of hybrid genres which in the present day are often labelled as “electronic literature”. In order...
The Limits of Literary Criticism and a Textile Poetics of Entanglement
Always eager to explore… Aren’t we so tired of hearing this word in academic writing? Shall I say ‘observe’? Or ‘investigate’? Even worse… I’ll begin again. I have always been eager to...
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...
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,...
Researching Italian Youth Across Time: An Interdisciplinary Approach
My current research project, which is funded by an Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship, focuses on representations of contemporary Italian youth on the video sharing platform YouTube. I am...
Museum Practices in World Literature
In Gorizia, Haya Tedeschi sits waiting for her long-lost son and endlessly sorts through the assembled contents of her life, which she has archived in a deep red basket that reaches up...
Convergence Culture in the Age of Covid 19: A Fever Dream
“I am Kino-Eye. I am a builder. I have placed you, who I’ve created today, in an extraordinary room which did not exist until just now when I also created it. In...
Media Borders in Our Minds
There are some recurring basic concepts in the humanities and social sciences that seem to be under perennial debate. They are constantly under attack for being ‘simplistic’ or criticised for being vague...
Intermediality, Literary Studies and Anglophone World Literature
In the last twenty years, intermediality and related concepts such as adaptation (Linda Hutcheon), remediation (Jay David Bolter/Richard Grusin) and transmedia (Henry Jenkins) have become exceptionally productive in a range of disciplines...