Academy of Europe: CV

Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture

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Employment:

2020 Full Professor of English Literature and Culture, University of Genova
2015 Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture, University of Genova
2005Lecturer of English Literature and Culture, University of Genova

Education:

Ph.D. in English Studies, University of Genova, 2001. Dissertation: ‘Visione/visualità e scrittura in Ford Madox Ford’ (Vision/Visuality and Writing in Ford Madox Ford). Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Rufini (University of Perugia, Affiliated with Genova Doctoral Programme).
M.A. and B.A. in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne (Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures), 1997. Summa Cum Laude. Dissertation: ‘Thomas Hardy e il sublime’ (Thomas Hardy and the Sublime).
Erasmus undergraduate student at the University of Reading, UK, 1993-1994.

Extramural Activities:

Member, Steering Committee, National Association of English Scholars ANDA (Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Anglistica) (2018—);
Member, Core Group, Cultural Literacy in Europe Network, (June 2015-November 2016)
Member, Executive Committee, Ford Madox Ford Society (2006–2010)

Lectures and talks for art institutions:

‘Landscapes of the Body: Lee Bul’s Affective Spaces’, Berliner Festspiele. Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin, 18 October 2018 (1 hr, invited lecture)
‘The Poetics of Crashing: Body, Architecture and Landscape in Lee Bul’, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, 2 June 2018 (1 hr, invited talk)
‘Body and Space in Alfred Cohen’s paintings’, Alfred Cohen: An American Émigré in Europe, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, 14 June 2018 (10 min, invited talk).

Funded Projects:

‘The boundaries of the city between modernity and postmodernity’, research project at the University of Genova (2014).
‘Urban conflict and the literary imagination at the turn of the millennium’, research project at the University of Genova (2013). Principal Investigator.
‘Aristocracy and the modern imagination from the early nineteenth century to the First World War’, research project at the University of Genova (2012).
‘Modernism and the Mediterranean: literature and politics’, research project at the University of Genova (2011).
‘Postmodernism at the beginning of the new millennium’, research project at the University of Genova (2008).
‘Ford Madox Ford, painting and other media’, research project at the University of Genova (2006). Principal Investigator.
‘In Transit: Nomadic Geographies of English and American Modernism’. Title of the Research Unit of the University of Genova: ‘The Politics and Poetics of Displacement: English and American Modernists in Islamic Territory’, Research Project of National Interest (PRIN) (2006).

Institutional responsibilities at the University of Genova:

Departmental Representative for the VQR 2015-2019 (Italian Research Excellence Framework) (2019–);
Departmental IRIS Superuser (2019–);
Departmental Representative, University Quality Assurance Committee (2017—);
Departmental Representative, Research Committee, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (2015–2017);
Departmental Representative for the VQR 2011-14 (Italian Research Excellence Framework) (2015);
Departmental Representative for the SUA-RD 2011-2013 (2014);
Member, Technical Committee for the Library of the School of Humanities (2014–2017).
Member, Doctoral Collegium for PhD programme in Classical and Modern Literatures and Cultures (2013—).
Member, Master’s Degree Programme in Project Management in the field of cultural tourism (2009–2010).
Member, Doctoral Collegium for PhD programme in Comparative Euro-American Literatures (2005–2013).
Member, Master’s Degree Programme in International Cultural Management (2005–2008).

Research Degrees Supervision and Examination:

Societies:

Editorial Boards:

Member, Ford Madox Ford: Complete Works — Oxford University Press. General Editors: Max Saunders and Sara Haslam (November 2020—).
Member, Present Perfect (Series). Editors: Jean-Michel Ganteau and Christine Reynier (October 2020).
Member, Editorial Advisory Group. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (January 2019—).
Commissioning Editor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (January 2019—).
Co-editor, Janus – Confronti letterari (Series). Casa editrice Dell’Orso, Alessandria (2019—).
Member, International Ford Madox Ford Studies (Series). Rodopi/Brill (2013–16).

Peer-Reviewing Activity:

Presses Universitaires de La Méditerranée (PULM). 2 book chapters. 2019.
The Swiss National Science Foundation. 1 funding application for a four-year research project: 517.000 CHF. 2018. *Le Simplegadi. 1 journal article. 2017.
Il Tolomeo. Rivista di studi postcoloniali | A Postcolonial Studies Journal | Journal d’études postcoloniales. 1 journal article. 2017.
Literary Geographies. 1 journal article. 2016.
Journal of Artistic Research. 1 research artwork. 2010.
CEUM (Centro Edizioni Università di Macerata). 1 book. 2009.
Output Assessor for the VQR (Italian Research Excellence Framework). 2004–2010.

Organization of international conferences and seminars:

The Literary Image and the Screen. Univ. of Genoa, September 2019;
ANDA Seminar 2018, Transcending the Postmodern: Portrayals of the Human in Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Fiction, Univ. of Genova, September 2018;
Representations of the British Aristocracy: 19th Century – Present. Univ. of Genova, May 2018;
William Hogarth in Time: Metamorphoses and Afterlives in European Literatures and Cultures. An International Conference. Univ. of Milan, January 2018;
Ford Madox Ford: Visual Arts and Media (with the support of the Ford Madox Ford Society). Univ. of Genova, 17–19 September 2007. Guest speakers: A. S. Byatt e Colm Tóibín.