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....
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....
On Monday 12 May 2014 Dr Giuliana Pieri met with two highly experienced teachers of Italian, Carmela Amodio Johnson and Barbara Romito to talk about their experience of interdisciplinarity in the classroom in a...
One of the key questions of the project relates to the ways in which interdisciplinarity in both theory and practice can inspire new patterns of teaching. Our collaboration with teachers...
The 2013 conference of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, which took place on 22 and 23 November at the Institute of Modern Languages Research, London, put in...
The interest in taking interdisciplinary and interartistic approaches to Italian cultural figures continues, as a new project is announced on Luigi Ghirri: “Viewing and writing Italian Landscape: Luigi Ghirri and...
On the occasion of the last SIS Biennial Conference (Durham, 7-11 July), I organized a panel entitled “Italian transmedia culture: stories and storytelling across media” which included papers presented by...
Giuliana Pieri, in her paper on “Vision and Visuality in Italian Studies”, explored a surprising blind spot in the current field of Italian studies: the interdisciplinary field of Visual Studies....
Before the radical changes to the languages curriculum that began in the late 1980s, the study of literature and the language required to read it were the unique focus of...
Interdisciplinarity is everywhere seen as normative, necessary, and part of what we do, and need to do, as academics.It’s good, isn’t it, to bring in documentaries when we teach history?...
Experiment/Experience Pierpaolo Antonello’s contribution to the third Interdisciplinary Italy Workshop held at University College London, Saturday, 11th May 2013, can be accessed here: experimentexperience powerpoint ExperimentExperience paper
Fotografia circa 1968 I focus on the chiasmus that occurred between art, and photography in particular, around 1968 in Italy. By then artists had begun to creatively use photographic documents,...
Music/ theatre/ virtuosity: Berio, Berberian and Eco at the Studio di Fonologia Dr Steve Halfyard examined the work Luciano Berio did involving language with Umberto Eco and Cathy Berberian at...
If you would like to get in touch, please write to us using the form on this page, or just contact one of the team (see People) directly. We are keen to talk to those who find this website interesting and who are working on interartistic practice.
We are very interested in the work of research students and early career scholars. We have had over 10 doctoral students working with the project, as well as 4 postdoctoral fellows (AHRC, IRC and MSCA funded), all 4 of whom now hold prestigious academic or research positions in Europe.
Doctoral positions. We would like to hear from you if your planned doctoral research relates to interart/intermedia. We support PhD funding awards with the Irish Research Council (deadline October each year; based at Trinity), multiple University PhD awards at UCL (UK) , Royal Holloway (UK), and Trinity (Ireland), where deadlines vary across the year.
Postdoctoral positions. If you have a strong research idea related to Interdisciplinary Italy project, please get in touch and we will look together at sourcing funding.
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If you think you have a suitable project, please have a look at our profiles under the People tab and contact one of the project team directly to discuss your plans for research with us.