Jacopo Turini

Supervisors: Dr Silvia Ross and Dr Chiara Giuliani

Title of Thesis: The Environment, Borders and Identity: Contemporary Italian Literature in Alpine Frontier Areas. 

Undergraduate degree: Bachelor of Arts, Università di Torino, 2015. 

Master’s degree: MA in Italian Literature, Philology and Linguistics, Università di Torino, 2019.

Publications

Articles in academic journals:

* “Attraversamenti e scavi. Le traduzioni italiane di Seamus Heaney antecedenti al premio Nobel”, in  Allegoria, 81, I, 2020, pp. 185-199.

* “‘Dal profondo mistero evolutivo’. Scavi archeo-geologici nella poesia italiana contemporanea”, in L’Ulisse, 24, 2021, pp. 235-246.

* “Geology and Literature: A Critical Proposal for the Reading of Place. The Case of Fabio Pusterla”, in Italian Studies (forthcoming in 2025).

Chapters in collective volumes:

* “Lo scrittore come ecologista. Scrittura ed esperienza sul territorio montano da Nuto Revelli a Wu Ming 1”, in Tra ecologia letteraria ed ecocritica, edited by Marina Spunta and Silvia Ross, Cesati, 2022, pp 43-50.

* “Il gioco del silenzio. Per una lettura spaziale di Todo modo”, in Leggere e rileggere Sciascia, edited by Davide Dalmas and Tiziano Toracca, Peter Lang, 2023, pp 129-140.

Conference Presentations:

* “Borders and Identities in Contemporary Italian Literature. A Geo-Literary Reading of Northern Frontier Areas”. XII Annual Graduate Conference in Italian Studies, University College Cork, 9-10 June 2023.

* “Geology and Literature: A Critical Proposal for the Reading of Place The Case of Fabio Pusterla”. Conference: Geographies of the Present. Spaces and Places of the Anthropocene in Italy, University College Cork, 24-25 February 2023.

* Non credevamo di amarli tanto. Grande Torino: an Italian Football Tragedy, presentation for the Cork Italian “Dante” Society, 21 November 2022.

* “Erosion and Waste: Border Ecosystems in Fabio Pusterla’s Poetry”. Conference: Ruins and Rubble in Post-War Italy, University of Notre Dame’s Rome Global Gateway, 14-16 October 2022.

* From a Suburban Border. A Geo-literary Reading of the Swiss-Italian Border in Andrea Fazioli and Alberto Nessi. UCC Italian Department Postgraduate Research Seminars, 8 September 2022.

* “Eresie, ribellioni, transiti. Costruzioni identitarie ai confini occidentali”. Panel: Identity, Space and Place in Contemporary Italian Literature, AAIS Conference, Università di Bologna, 29 May – 2 June 2022.

* “Flowing Glaciers. Change and Destruction of the Alpine Borders: Italian Limes Project and Fabio Pusterla”. Panel: Disappearing Lands: Reflections on Anthropocenic Italy, SIS Conference, University of Warwick, 19-22 April 2022.

* “Il gioco del silenzio. Per una lettura spaziale di Todo modo”. Conference: Leggere e rileggere Sciascia, Università di Torino, 2-3 December 2021.

* “Lo scrittore come ecologista. Scrittura ed esperienza sul territorio montano da Nuto Revelli a Wu Ming 1”, XXIV AIPI (Associazione Internazionale Professori di Italiano) Conference, Université de Genève, 28-30 June 2021.

* “Until Nature Became History: Archaeo-Geology in Contemporary Italian Poetry”, NeMLA Conference – The 52nd Annual Convention of the Northeast Modern Language Association. Panel: Science and Literature in 20th-century Italian Culture: New Perspectives. 10-14 March 2021.

* “Environment, Border and Identity in Alpine Frontier Areas. The Case of Fabio Pusterla”. Conference: Border Heritages, Irish Humanities Alliance, University of Ulster, Derry, 24-25 October 2019.

Funding: Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship

Email contacts: 119227362@ucc.ie / jacopo.turini12@gmail.com

Dario Galassini

Supervisor: Dr Daragh O'Connell

Title of Thesis: «Poeta che mi guidi»: Dantean Afterlives in the Poetry of Giorgio Caproni, Antonia Pozzi, Vittorio Sereni and Mario Luzi.

Undergraduate degree: BA in Humanities (Università di Bologna, 2017); additional BA in Music (Conservatorio "G. B. Martini" di Bologna, 2021).

Master’s degree: MA in Italian Studies (Università di Bologna, 2020).

Publications

Articles in academic journals:

* 'Variazioni narrative e allegoriche sulla selva dantesca nell’opera di Giorgio Caproni', Tenzone, 22 (forthcoming 2023).

* '"Celebrating 700 anni di Dante": A New Branding', Perspectives Médiévales, 44 (2023).

* 'La selva, le fiere, la guida: memorie dantesche di ‘Inferno’ I nella poesia di Giorgio Caproni', L’Alighieri. Rassegna Dantesca, 56 (2021).

Other Publications - Book Reviews:

* The Afterlife of Dante’s Vita Nova in the Anglophone World. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Translation and Reception History, edited by F. Coluzzi and J. Blakesley (New York, London: Routledge, 2022), L’Alighieri. Rassegna Dantesca, forthcoming issue.

* Narrative Strategies for Participation in Dante’s Divine Comedy, by Katherine Powlesland (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022), Bibliotheca Dantesca, forthcoming issue.

* Dante Beyond Influence. Rethinking Reception in Victorian Literary Culture, by Federica Coluzzi (Manchester: Manchester UP, 2021), L’Alighieri. Rassegna Dantesca, 59 (2022).

Conference Presentations:

* Society for Italian Studies Themed Conference 'Affect, Sensation, Emotion' (University of Cambridge, Sep 2023): paper 'Affects, Subjectivities, and Factory Work:
Vittorio Sereni’s "Una visita in fabbrica"'
 
* XII Annual Graduate Conference in Italian Studies (University College Cork, Jun 2023): paper 'Coordinate teoriche per un approccio condiviso agli studi della ricezione di Dante'

* Per un nuovo canone del Novecento letterario italiano: le poetesse (Sapienza Università di Roma, Dec 2022): paper '"Poetessa isolata"? Per riposizionare "Parole" di Antonia Pozzi nel canone del Novecento'

* Dante Futures: New Voices in Ireland and the UK (University College Cork, Nov 2022): paper 'Dante in Marginalia: A Preliminary Visit to Antonia Pozzi’s Private Library'

* Leeds International Medieval Congress 2022 (University of Leeds, Jul 2022): paper '"Od ombra od omo certo": Redefining Identities between the Corporeal and the Immaterial'

* "Visibili rifatti": Early Modern Voices in the Contemporary World (University of Sussex, Jun 2022): paper 'Schooling Dante: the Influence of Commentators and Cultural Positions on early twentieth-century Dantismo'

* Seminario dantesco Alma Dante 2022 (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Jun 2022): paper 'Luzi e Caproni lettori di Dante: appropriazioni poetiche di "Inferno" I, 65-67'

* American Association for Italian Studies Conference 2022 (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, May 2022): paper 'Dantean Textures: Contemporary Irish Remediations in Art and Music'

* Society for Italian Studies Biennial Conference 2022 (University of Warwick, Apr 2022): paper '"Una speranza di Bene": a Balance on Studies reading Female/Feminist Appropriations of Dante'

* A Centenary Celebration of New Voices in UK and Irish Dante Studies (University of Cambridge/University of Oxford, Nov 2021): paper 'A Genderless Legacy: Female Voices Re-reading and Re-thinking Dante'

* International Dante Conference Alma Dante 2021 (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Sep 2021): paper 'Eredità testuali dantesche nella poesia di Antonia Pozzi: un primo approccio'

* International Dante Conference “L’ombra sua torna”: Dante, il Novecento e oltre (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Apr 2021): paper 'La selva, le fiere, la guida: memorie dantesche nella poesia di Giorgio Caproni'

* 52nd Northeast Mordern Languages Association Virtual Annual Convention (University at Buffalo, Mar 2021): paper entitled '"Selva", "fiere", "guida": Dante’s "Inferno" I in the Poetics of Giorgio Caproni'

Funding: The Irish Research Council (Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship, 2021-2024).

Email contacts: 120228026@umail.ucc.ie / dgalassini13@gmail.com

Noreen Kane

Supervisors: Chiara Giuliani and Silvia Ross

Title of Thesis: Trauma and the Gendered Body in Postcolonial Italian Women’s Writing

Undergraduate degree: BA in Italian and English, UCD, 2008

Master’s degree: MA in Italian Studies, UCD, 2011

Publications

Articles in academic journals:

* Kane, Noreen, “Embodying Colonial Ghosts in Postcolonial Italian Women's Writing”, The Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork, VI(1), 2022, pp. 172-178.

Other Publications - Book Reviews:

* Kane, Noreen. “Elena Zambelli. Sexscapes of Pleasure: Women, Sexuality and the Whore Stigma in Italy”, Italian Studies, (forthcoming in 2023).

* Kane, Noreen. “Igiaba Scego. The Colour Line”, Litro Magazine, 9 February 2023, https://www.litromagazine.com/usa/2023/02/book-review-the-colour-line/

Conference Presentations:

* “Intergenerational Trauma and Complex Implication in Maaza Mengiste’s The Shadow King.” Conference: Afterlives of Empire in the Public Imagination, Sapienza University, 21-22 September 2023.

* “Trauma, Sensation, and Affect in the Work of Igiaba Scego and Maaza Mengiste.” SIS Interim Themed Conference: Affect, Emotion, Sensation, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, 7-8 September 2023.

* “Intergenerational Trauma as expressed through the Female Protagonists’ Relationships to Food in Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze and Igiaba Scego’s La mia casa è dove sono.” Conference: XII Annual Graduate Conference in Italian Studies, University College Cork, 9-10 June 2023.

*“Postcolonial Italian Women Writers Renegotiating a Sense of Collective Identity in Ubah Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother and Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon through Western Trauma Theory and the Pan-African Philosophy of Ubuntu.” Conference: On the Move and Moving On: (Re)negotiations of Migration in Contemporary Literature and Film Conference, ILCS, Senate House, London, 13 January 2023.

* “The Female Body as Site of Intergenerational Memory in Representations of Italian Colonialism in Maaza Mengiste’s Beneath the Lion’s Gaze and The Shadow King, and Ubah Cristina Ali Farah’s Little Mother.” Workshop: Colonialism and Transgenerational Memory in Europe, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (online), 21-22 September 2022.

*“The Embodiment of Colonial Trauma in Ubah Cristina Ali Farah’s Madre Piccola and Igiaba Scego’s Adua.” Summer School: The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism, Sapienza University, Rome, 1 July 2022.

* “Trauma and Resistance in Igiaba Scego’s Oltre Babilonia and Adua.” Conference: AAIS (online), 13 May, 2022.

* “The Representation of Intergenerational Trauma in Postcolonial Italian Women’s Writing.” Seminar: Memory, Commemoration and Uses of the Past Research Cluster, CASiLaC, University College Cork, 1 April 2022.

* “The Representation of Intergenerational Trauma in Igiaba Scego’s Beyond Babylon.” Conference: College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences

* Postgraduate Conference, University College Cork (online), 22 February 2022.

* “The Representation of Female Genital Mutilation in Postcolonial Italian Women’s Writing.” Conference: Contemporary Women Writers and the Medical Humanities, IMLR (online), 29 July 2021.

Funding: Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship (2021-2025) and National University of Ireland Travelling Doctoral Studentship (2021-2025).

Email contacts: 120228167@umail.ucc.ie / noreenkaneucc@gmail.com

Elsina Caponetti

Chiara Valcelli

Supervisors: Daragh O'Connell, Adam Hanna

Title of Thesis: Mapping Dante's Commedia onto Joyce's Dubliners, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

Undergraduate degree: Bachelor of Arts, Università degli Studi di Perugia, 2018.

Master’s degree: Teaching of the Italian Language to Foreigners, Università per Stranieri di Perugia, 2021.

Publications

Articles in academic journals:

* Valcelli, C., “Joyce’s infernal Dublin in childhood and maturity”, in Joyspace, James Joyce and space, Joyce Studies in Italy no. 23, edited by Roberto Baronti Marchiò, Editoriale Anicia, Roma, 2021, pp. 175-187.

* Valcelli, C., “Influences of Dante’s Purgatorio in Joyce’s Ulysses: a pilgrimage of redemption”, in One, no one, and one hundred (thousand?) Ulysses, Joyce Studies in Italy no. 24, edited by Serenella Zanotti, Editoriale Anicia, Roma, 2022, pp. 155-168. 

Conference Proceedings:

*Valcelli, C., “Il Cammino di Dante in Umbria: seguire i passi di Dante in Paradiso XI”, in Turismi Danteschi, Collana TULE, a cura di Giovanni Capecchi e Roberto Mosena, Perugia Stranieri University Press, Perugia (Forthcoming in 2024).

Conference Presentations:

* “Che è quel ch’i’odo. Sere, issa vegg’io Pola appo del Carnaro: Dante in Joyce’s language acquisition.” Conference: Dante Futures, University of Leeds, 17-18 November 2023.

 * “A Tale of Two Cities: An Affective Study of Dante’s Florence and Joyce’s Dublin.” Conference: The 2023 SIS Themed Conference ‘Affect, Emotion, Sensation’, University of Cambridge, Selwyn College, 7–8 September 2023.

 * “Joyce and Dante: reading Inferno.” Conference: XII Annual Graduate Conference in Italian Studies, University College Cork, 9-10 June 2023.

* “Dante nell’officina di Joyce: l’Inferno e la sperimentazione linguistica”. Conference: Congresso Dantesco Internazionale, Ravenna, 17-20 May 2023.

* “Dream, memory and hallucination in Joyce and Dante.” Conference: XV James Joyce Italian Foundation, University Roma Tre, 2-3 February 2023.

* “Mapping Dante’s Inferno onto Joyce’s Dubliners.” Conference: Dante Futures, University College Cork, 11-12 November 2022.

* “Influences of Dante’s Purgatorio in Joyce’s Ulysses: a pilgrimage of redemption.” Conference: XIV James Joyce Italian Foundation, University Roma Tre, 28-29 April 2022.

* “The Borders of Italy by Joyce and Dante”. Conference: OmniJoyce, International James Joyce Foundation, online, 14-16 June 2021.

* “Gabriel Conroy: The Fall into Inferno.” Conference: XIII James Joyce Italian Foundation, University Roma Tre, 30-31 January 2020.

Funding: Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship

Email contacts: 122120320@umail.ucc.ie / chiaravalcelli@gmail.com 

Francesca Nieddu

Supervisor: Dr. Silvia Ross

Title of Thesis: The Genres of the Family Novel, Family Memoir and Childhood Memoir in Italian Women’s Writing from the 20th Century to the Present

Undergraduate degree: Bachelor of Arts, Università di Cagliari, 2019

Master’s degree: MA in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures & Linguistics, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, 2022.

Publications

Articles in academic journals:

* “‘Destinazione Aracoeli’: riandare al materno con il corpo della memoria”, in OBLIO, 13, June 2023, pp. 131-144.

Conference Presentations:

* “‘Destinazione Aracoeli’: riandare al materno con il corpo della memoria”, Conference: “Omaggio ad Elsa Morante: per i quarant’anni di Aracoeli”, Università di Cagliari, 19- 20 May 2022.

* “Tutte le vite iniziano con una donna”: un dialogo intertestuale fra Giulia Caminito e le sue Amatissime, Day Seminar: Il corpo delle donne fra narrazione cinematografica e narrazione letteraria nel contemporaneo estremo, Università di Cagliari, 5 May 2023

* “The Contamination between the Anti-Bildungsroman and the Family Novel in L'acqua del lago non è mai dolce by Giulia Caminito: Outlining a Hybrid Family Novel”, XII Annual Graduate Conference in Italian Studies, University College Cork, 9-10 June 2023.

Funding: Irish Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship.

Email contacts: 122115423@umail.ucc.ie / francescanieddu2@gmail.com 

Tommaso Verga

Giulia Bernuzzi

Supervisors: Dr. Marco Amici and Dr. Mark Chu

Title of Thesis: Rethinking the Urban Conglomerate: How to Combine Utopia and Dystopia into a Shared,

Sustainable and Livable Space.

Undergraduate degree: Bachelor of Arts, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, 2021

Master's degree: Master of Arts, Universiteit van Amsterdam, 2023

Publications

Articles in academic journals:

* "The adaptation of Pirandello’s Enrico IV into a comic book: Regni and Bianchi’s Project” in Pirandello Studies, 43, 2023.

Other publications:

*“Scrittura e variazioni tra Settecento e Novecento. Jacques e il suo padrone di Milan Kundera” in Webzine Theatron 2.0, 2021.

*Libri in pellicola. Casi editoriali del cinema italiano. Milano, EDUcatt, 2020.

Conference Presentations:

* "Calvino’s Invisible Cities and its relationship to modernist and postmodernist architecture: re-narrating the urban landscape”. Graduate Symposium JHU-Yale Mutamenti. Overcoming Crises, University of Yale, 27-28 October 2023.

* "Tra letteratura e architettura: come le opere di Calvino aiutano a ripensare il conglomerato urbano”. XII Italian Studies Postgraduate Conference, University College Cork, 9-10 June 2023.

* “Tra letteratura e architettura. Come le Città invisibili di Calvino aiutano a ripensare il conglomerato urbano”. Masterlanguage Symposium Narrazioni e Memorie di un’Italia divisa: Roma laboratorio di Storia/storie, Universiteit van Amsterdam, April 2023.

* “Alla ricerca della religione perduta (?): le declinazioni del postsecolare in The Young Pope e È stata la mano di Dio”. KNIR Symposium Narrazioni e Memorie di un’Italia divisa e postsecolare, Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome, April 2022.  

Funding: Eduardo Saccone PhD Scholarship in Italian Literature.

Email contacts: 123121362@umail.ucc.ie / giuliabernuzzi11@gmail.com