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...
Pierpaolo Antonello, Reader in Modern Italian Literature and Culture (University of Cambridge)
Jan Baetens, Professor of Cultural Studies (University of Leuven)
Jacopo Benci, Artist and scholar at the British School at Rome
Silvia Bergamini, Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Leeds)
Beatrice Blake, Postgraduate researcher (UCL)
Stefano Bragato, Postdoctoral Researcher (University of Zurich)
Simona Corso, Associate Professor in English Literature (Università di Roma 3)
Andrea Cortellessa, Associate Professor (Università di Roma Tre)
Caterina Davinio, Italian artist
Maria Del Buono, Postgraduate Student (University of Birmingham)
Nicola Dusi, Lecturer in Cinema, Photography and Television (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
Mark Epstein, Independent researcher
Valeria Federici, Postgraduate Student (Brown University)
Gian Piero Frassinelli, Italian architect
Gabriela Galati, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer (NABA, Milan)
Andrea Hajek, British Academy postdoctoral research fellow (University of Glasgow)
Eleonora Lima, Research Fellow in Digital Humanities (Trinity College Dublin)
Mirko Lino, Adjunct Lecturer (Università degli Studi dell’Aquila), Editor of Emerging Series
Karin Littau, Professor of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies (University of Sussex)
Robert Lumley, Professor of Italian Cultural History (UCL)
Cristina Massaccesi, Senior Teaching Tutor (UCL)
Timothy Mathews, Professor of French and Comparative Criticism (UCL)
Francesca Medaglia, Postdoctoral Researcher (La Sapienza, Rome)
Iuri Moscardi, Postgraduate student (CUNY)
Gioia Panzarella, Postgraduate Student (Warwick University)
Luisa Peyrache, Ph.D. student (University of Birmingham)
Tullio Pericoli, Italian painter
Tommaso Pincio, Italian writer and art critic
Bruno Pischedda, Lecturer of Italian (University of Milan)
Ben Thomas, Senior Lecturer in History and Theory of Art (University of Kent)
Eleonora Raspi, Postdoctoral Researcher (RHUL)
Catharine Rossi, Senior Lecturer in Design History (Kingston)
Lucia Savi, Postgraduate student (Kingston College)
Paola Sica, Professor of Italian (Connecticut College)
Simona Storchi, Lecturer of Italian (University of Leicester)
Emma Wagstaff, Lecturer in French Studies (University of Birmingham)
Valentina Vacca, Postgraduate Student (RHUL)
Georgia Wall, Postgraduate Student (Warwick University)
Kate Willman, Associate Teacher (University of Bristol)
Margherita Zanoletti, Librarian (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
Francesco Zucconi, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris)