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....
Category Archives: Theory
Cognitive Studies as Transdisciplinary Esperanto
This summer in Edinburgh, at the conference of the Society for Italian Studies, the first entirely cognitive-oriented panel was presented. The transdisciplinary perspective allowed by the cognitive lens enabled the panellists to...
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...
When Literature and Technology Fail to Align
What is peculiar to interdisciplinary projects that bring together literature and digital tools? Technological instability, I would suggest. This immediately raises issues concerning fruition and accessibility. But is this instability a failure?...
Verga and Duse: Shaping an Italian Identity on Stage
My contribution at the recent Interart/Intermedia conference looked at the interartistic collaboration between Verga and Duse and the effect their collaboration had on Italy’s artistic creativity: observations which have been inspired by...
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....
Interdisciplinary Italian Teaching: The Challenge of Connection
by Clodagh Brook Interdisciplinarity has been a driving agenda in Universities for some decades. We are encouraged to work in interdisciplinary ways, although these are most often only vaguely articulated. What does...
Modern Languages and the Digital: Towards ‘Digital Cultural Histories’
[This post was originally published in the Language Acts and Worldmaking blog] Last June I had the pleasure to give a talk at the workshop Mapping Multilingualism and Digital Culture organised by...
Verba Picta: Navigating Multimediality in the Italian Poetry of the Last Half Century
The investigation of the close dialogue between poetic and visual language in the Italian panorama of the last seventy years is at the centre of the research project Verba Picta. Interrelazione tra...
Borders-Translations-Norms. The Medium Matters. Materialism And (Artistic) Media
Since the 1960s there has been an interest in (artistic) media from (tending towards) the technologically deterministic of Marshall McLuhan, to critics on the left such as Raymond Williams (Contact: Human Communication...
The Postmedium Condition, or Better: Art-at-Large
Rosalind Krauss’ development of the idea of the postmedium condition (1999a) was inspired by Walter Benjamin and his conception of the redemptive characteristics of the obsolescence of the medium: the medium is...