!!Laura Colombino - Curriculum Vitae
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__Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture__\\
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[Departmental website|http://www.lingue.unige.it/?post_type=dipendente&p=2091]\\
[Personal website|http://www.lauracolombino.com]\\
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__Employment:__
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*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
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__Education:__
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*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.
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__Extramural Activities:__
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*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)
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__Lectures and talks for art institutions:__
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*‘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).
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__Funded Projects:__
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*‘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).
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__Institutional responsibilities at the University of Genova:__
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*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).
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__Research Degrees Supervision and Examination:__
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*Research completions: Lara Paoletti (2010), Guglielmo Poli (2017)\\
*Research Degree Examinations: Guglielmo Poli (2017)\\
*2 Ph.D. vivas chaired\\
*1 Current Ph.D. supervision
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__Societies:__
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*ESSE, European Society for the Study of English (2001—)\\
*SAR, Society for Artistic Research (2015—) \\
*The Ford Madox Ford Society (2000—)\\
*The Literary London Society (2008—2016)\\
*AIA, Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (2001—)\\
*ANDA, Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Anglistica (2015—)
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__Editorial Boards:__
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*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).
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__Peer-Reviewing Activity:__
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*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.

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__Organization of international conferences and seminars:__
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*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.\\ \\