CURRICULUM VITAE
PAOLA SPINOZZI, born in Rimini (RN), Italy, on the 9th of September 1966
Associate Professor of English Literature
Department of Humanistic Studies
University of Ferrara
Via Savonarola 27
44100 - Ferrara - Italy
paola.spinozzi@unife.it
www.unife.it
http://docente.unife.it/paola.spinozzi
I. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
18 March 1993
Bachelor’s + Master’s degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures (laurea quadriennale), University of Bologna. Thesis: L’evoluzione del ruolo e della figura femminile nell’opera di William Morris fra suggestioni preraffaellite e “The Woman Question” [Pre-Raphaelite Visions and the Woman Question. Figures of Femininity in the Work of William Morris] First Class Honours (110 cum laude).
13 - 17 June 1994
Shakespeare and the New Historicism, seminar held by Stephen Greenblatt, Palazzo Serra di Cassano, Naples. Bursary offered by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.
1 November 1995 - 31 December 1999
Four-year PhD course in English Studies, University of Florence, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Scholarship obtained through a national competition. PhD thesis: As Painting Poetry Shall (Not) Be. L’estetica della scrittura figurata: ekphrasis, illustrazione, calligrafia nella poesia preraffaellita e simbolista [As Painting Poetry Shall (Not) Be. Aesthetics of Figurative Writing: Ekphrasis, Illustration and Calligraphy in Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist Poetry].
27 - 30 June 1996
William Morris Centenary Conference, Exeter College, Oxford. Bursary offered by The William Morris Society.
10 - 19 July 1996
The Contemporary British Writer, 1996 Cambridge Seminar, Downing College, Cambridge. Bursary offered by the British Council.
20 June 2000 - 20 June 2002
Two-year post-doctoral fellowship, University of Bologna, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Fellowship obtained through a national competition. Research project: Parola e immagine nel primo Novecento: l’eredità del Preraffaelitismo [Word and Image in the Early 20th-Century: the Legacy of Pre-Raphaelitism].
8 October - 3 November 2006
Visiting Fellowship, University of Cardiff. Research Project: Interarts and Illustration: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Fellowship offered by the University of Cardiff, School of English, Communication and Philosophy.
II. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2000-2001
Lecturer in Comparative Studies, Department di Human Sciences, University of Ferrara.
1 September 2001 - 28 February 2015
Lecturer in English Literature, Department of Human Sciences, University of Ferrara.
1 March 2015 -
Associate Professor of English Literature, Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara.
III. INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Since April 2008
Coordinator of the Programme for Personal and Academic Support Tutor for the BA and MA courses in Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Since 7 July 2009
Member of the Advisory Committee for the teaching of foreign languages at the University of Ferrara.
Since 27 March 2013
Member of the Joint Committee of Teachers and Students for the Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara.
Since 20 January 2014
Co-cordinator of the International University Network Routes towards Sustainability.
Since October 2014
Member of the Committe for the “University and Sustainability” Prize awarded by the University of Ferrara.
IV. RESEARCH
IV.1. FIELDS OF STUDY
SOCIAL, CULTURAL, LITERARY AND ARTISTIC CONTEXT OF GREAT BRITAIN
British literature and the arts in the sixteenth century, the Victorian Age, Modernism and Post-modernism.
INTERART / INTERMEDIAL STUDIES
Theories and methodologies; ekphrasis; illustration; calligraphy; verbal/visual aesthetics in the Victorian Age and in Pre-Raphaelitism; Interart osmosis in the work of W. Morris, D. G. Rossetti, W. Crane; Illustrated Victorian Shakespeare; Word and image in A. S. Byatt’s fiction and essays.
UTOPIAN STUDIES
Utopian literature in relation to science and technology, art and aesthetics, urban imagery, evolutionism, nationalism, imperialism, racism. The utopian thought of Thomas More, Francis Bacon, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Anthony Trollope, William Henry Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells, Katharine Burdekin, J. G. Ballard, Michael Marshall Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro.
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
Science, discoursivity and narrativity; literary representations, fictionalisation and popularisation of scientific theories and discoveries; science in art; aesthetics and ethics of bioart. The writing of science by Samuel Butler, H. G. Wells, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, A. S. Byatt.
CULTURAL MEMORY
The formation of national and cultural identities in Europe. Writers’ houses as media of expression and remembrance; the making of memory through the Italian and English houses of Gabriele, Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti; the reception of old Norse culture and the construction of Englishness in the Victorian Age and in the works of William Morris, Matthew Arnold and Thomas Carlyle.
INTERCULTURALITY
The sciences and the humanities as systems of knowledge and representation connected by interculturality. Interculturality as a notion of interface between different systems of thought. Intercultural episteme as characterised by the autonomy and synergy of specific disciplinary discourses through which scientists and humanities scholars contribute to the production of culture.
SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES
Sustainable production, use, and management of culture, science, and technology. The energetic holocaust, alternate history and post-apocalyptic futures, the Do It Yourself lifestyle and practices of reusing/recycling as forms of ecological intervention in the genres of utopia, dystopia and steampunk.
IV.2. CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
1996
“Figurazioni del passato nella saggistica di William Morris: la storia dell’Inghilterra pre-industriale, un ‘discorso’ sul socialismo”, Pellegrini della Speranza. William Morris cent’anni dopo. Edvige Schulte un anno dopo, Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, 13-14 December 1996.
1997
“‘And in the Dark House Was I Loved’: William Morris and Kelmscott Manor”, Vite d’Utopia / Utopian Lives, Università di Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, and Università di Milano, Gargnano sul Garda (Brescia), 9-11 June 1997.
1999
“Interart Studies: On Theory and Methodology”, General Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA), Università di Bologna, Bertinoro (Forlì - Cesena), 19-21 March 1999.
2000
“Dis/Locating the British Empire in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon”, A Comparison between National Cultural Identities and Literary Utopias: a Challenging Perspective, European Thematic Network Project Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA) and Università di Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, Rimini, 5-9 July 2000.
2001
“The Modernist Quest for the Late Romantic: Ford Madox Ford on Dante Gabriel Rossetti”, Ford Madox Ford and the Republic of Letters, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, The British Council, Associazione Italo Britannica, European Thematic Network Project Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA), The Ford Madox Ford Society, Bologna, 11-14 January 2001.
“La pedagogia del ‘giusto’ morire nelle utopie inglesi dell’Ottocento: The Fixed Period di Anthony Trollope”, Perfezione e finitudine. La concezione della morte nell’utopia in età moderna e contemporanea, Fondazione Ariodante Fabretti, Università di Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Storia, Archivio di Stato, Turin, 28-29 September 2001.
2002
“Dialectics between Energy and Idleness in Morris’s Aesthetic Utopia: News from Nowhere (1890)”, seminar On Utopia, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Porto, 22-25 March 2002.
“The Ideal City in Italy during the Renaissance between Architectural and Utopian projects”, seminar On Utopia, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Porto, 22-25 March 2002.
“The Revival of the Past and the Tension towards the Future in the 19th-century Urban Utopian Imagery”, Le Corti e la Città Ideale / Courts and the Ideal City, Università di Urbino, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Urbino, 15-17 November 2002.
2003
“Figuring the Otherworldly. Late Victorian Visions of Shakespeare’s Fairy Lore”, Metamorphosing Shakespeare. Mutual Illuminations of the Arts, Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Ferrara, 14-16 March 2003.
“The Controversial Concept of Communitarian Art in William Morris’s Utopian Society”, The 4th Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Universidad Europea de Madrid-CEES, Madrid, 25-29 June 2003.
“Ekphrasis as Portraiture: A. S. Byatt’s Doppelgänger”, Writing and Seeing, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras, Porto, 23-25 October 2003.
2004
“What is IN Ekphrasis. Paintings for Description in Post-modern Prose”, La letteratura e le altre arti, the annual conference of the Associazione per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura, Universita dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, 12-13 February 2004.
2005
“Gulfs of Time, Ties with the Past: Uchronia Re-Conceptualised”, Memory and Forgetfulness. Conception, Reception, Interception, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, 20-21 January 2005.
“In Vasto and in London: the Rossettis’ Houses as Mirrors of Dislocated National Identities”, Writers’ Houses and the Construction of (Trans) National Cultural Memory, European Thematic Network Project ACUME. Cultural Memory in European Countries, Reale Istituto Neerlandese, Rome, 11-15 May 2005.
“William Morris on Utopia and Romance”, Visualizing Utopia, workshop, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 25-27 May 2005.
“Stoicism among the Victorians? The Legacy of Old Norse Sagas in William Morris’s Utopian Views of Humankind”, The Cultural Reconstruction of Places, European Thematic Network Project ACUME. Cultural Memory in European Countries and Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavik, 24-26 June 2005.
“Primitive, Primeval. The Pre-Raphaelites’ Search for the Origins of Art”, Il primitivismo e le sue metamorfosi. Archeologia di un discorso culturale, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Bologna, 17-19 November 2005.
“L’epoca vittoriana nella prospettiva dell’estetica interartistica”, I Vittoriani, l’estetica e la letteratura, panel, Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e Letterature Straniere Comparate, Milan, 25 November 2005.
2006
“Insularity and Utopianism”, Island and the Cultural Maps, European Thematic Network Project ACUME. Cultural Memory in European Countries and Universidade de Madeira, Madeira, 28-29 September 2006.
“Re-Shaping Stilnovo for the Victorians: Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Translator and Illustrator of Dante’s Vita Nuova”, Research Seminar on Illustration, University of Cardiff, CEIR. Centre for Intertextual and Editorial Research, Cardiff, 24 October 2006.
“Interarts and Illustration: Re-Viewing Some Theoretical and Methodological Approaches”, Research Seminar on Illustration, University of Cardiff, CEIR. Centre for Intertextual and Editorial Research, Cardiff, 31 October 2006.
“Cognition, Representation, Representability”, “Envisioning Race”, “In Search of the Archetypal”, research projects presented at the General Brainstorming of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Villa Vigoni, Lovenio Menaggio (Como), 25-28 November 2006.
2007
“Cultural Representations of Science and Technology”, research project of sub-project 2, I General Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Università di Bologna, Bertinoro (Forlì - Cesena), 16-18 March 2007.
“Rendering Visual Perception: Interart Dynamics in Victorian Photography, Painting, and Literature”, Pictures of Modernity, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Europei e Postcoloniali, Venice, 10-11 May 2007.
“L’individuo e la collettività nella letteratura utopica”, launch of La società degli individui magazine, editor Ferruccio Andolfi: L’Utopia (I), n. 26, 2006/2 and L’Utopia (II), n. 27, 2006/3, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, Bologna, 21 May 2007.
“Formare e trasformare l’umano: l’interpretazione delle teorie evoluzionistiche nelle utopie e distopie vittoriane”, Scienza e tecnica in utopia, Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Storia, Florence, 22-23 May 2007.
“Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities”, research project presented at the Brainstorming Meeting on Origins, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Bologna, 15 June 2007.
“Envisioning Race”, research project presented at the Brainstorming Meeting on Race, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Bologna, 26 June 2007.
“Tropes of Science. Theorizing/Representing Evolution in A. S. Byatt’s Morpho Eugenia and Richard Dawkins’s The Blind Watchmaker”, Narrativity, Temporality and Discourse at the Interface, workshop, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 29 June 2007.
“Travelling Concepts”, research project presented at the Brainstorming Meeting on Travelling Concepts, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Bologna, 14 July 2007.
“Posthumans in Science Fiction, Cinema, and Cultural Discourse”, Human and Post-Human: Cultural Origins and Futures, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, King’s College, London, 29-30 September 2007.
“More [than] Human. The Debate on Post-Humanity at the Intersection of Scientific Thought, Technological Experimentation, and Literary Vision”, ACT 18 - Utopia e Ciência, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 26-27 November 2007.
“Source, Beginning, Creation and Authenticity. Polysemous Origins of Art”, Decoding the Origins, workshop, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and University of Warwick, Coventry, 10-11 December 2007.
“The Quest for Verbal/Visual Cosmos in William Morris’s Calligraphy & Typography”, Subjective Objects. The Aesthetics of the Object in Symbolist Art and Writing, University of Oxford, Kellogg College, Department for Continuing Education, Oxford, 14-15 December 2007.
2008
Presentation of the scientific activity of sub-project 2, I Steering Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Bologna, 10-11 January 2008.
“Searching for Interfaced Methodological Approaches to the Origin of Art”, Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and the Humanities, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, 12-13 May 2008.
“Tropes of Science”, panel on Science and the General Public and participation in the II General Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Rimini, 16-17 May 2008.
“Metaphors in Literature and Science”, The Case and the Canon, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Urbino, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Urbino, 26-28 June 2008.
“Beyond Humanistic Approaches to Art and its Origins”, panel on How Do Science and Art Interact?, European Science Forum, Palacio de Congresos de Barcelona, Montjuïc, Barcelona, 19 July 2008.
“‘Preposterous thicks and thins’”: Bodoni e la discrasia fra forma e significato nell’interpretazione di William Morris”, Bodoni e le avanguardie. Le Corbusier, il Bauhaus e la grafica del Novecento, Museo Bodoniano, Parma, 10 October 2008.
“Travelling Concepts”, research project presented at the II Brainstorming Meeting on Travelling Concepts, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Bologna, 31 October - 1 November 2008.
Presentation of the scientific activities of sub-project 2, II Steering Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, 5-6 December 2008.
2009
“Il senso critico di Ouida”, Ouida. il canone letterario e la cultura tardo-vittoriana, seminar, CUSVE, Centro Universitario per gli Studi Vittoriani ed Edoardiani, Università ‘G. D’Annunzio’ Chieti e Pescara, Pescara, 22 January 2009.
“La letteratura utopica dentro e oltre le nazioni”, Utopia e utopismo in scienza e letteratura and launch of Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi, Paris, Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Florence, 16 February 2009.
“A Londra, da Vasto. Le dimore reali ed estetiche dei Rossetti”, Giovedì Rossettiani, Centro Europeo di Studi Rossettiani, Palazzo D’Avalos, Vasto, 19 March 2009.
“Organisms as Bioengineered Works of Art. Or, the Bold Dialogue between Artists and Bioscientists”, Body Work, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Syddansk Universitet, Odense, 30-31 May 2009.
“The Topos of Ragnarök in the Utopian Thought of William Morris”, Eddic Gods and Heroes. The Milieux and Media of their Reception, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 25-27 June 2009.
“I sensi, l’immaginazione, il giudizio: il gusto nell’estetica di Edmund Burke”, L’infinita varietà del gusto. Filosofia, arte e storia di un’idea dal Medioevo all’età moderna, Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Ferrara, 27-28 November 2009.
“Critica d’arte e memoria culturale nell’Italia di William Michael Rossetti”, I Rossetti e l’Italia, Centro Europeo di Studi Rossettiani and Università ‘G. D’Annunzio’ Chieti e Pescara, Palazzo D’Avalos, Vasto, 10-12 December 2009.
2010
“Cimabue and Giotto, Guinizelli, Cavalcanti and Dante: D. G. Rossetti’s Verbal/Visual Personae”, Meaning in Literary Illustration, Agder University, Kristiansand, 24-25 September 2010.
“Trans-cultural Images of Fairy Lore, from Gothic to Art Nouveau: Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm, Translated from German by Lucy Crane and Done into Pictures by Walter Crane (1886)”, Imago et Translatio. Illustration et Traduction au XIXe siècle en Europe, Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature française du XIXe siècle - Université Paris-Sorbonne and Centre Interdisciplinaire sur les Modèles Esthétiques et Littéraires - Université de Reims-Champagne Ardennes, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 3-4 December 2010.
“Engineering Organisms into Art: the Aesthetic Élan of the Biosciences”, keynote speech, The Human and its Limits, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, 9-10 December 2010.
2011
“‘Some strange second flowering after date’: la poesia estetica di Dante Gabriel Rossetti e William Morris in Appreciations (1889) di W. Pater”, Walter Pater. Poetiche interartistiche e interculturali nell’Estetismo, Università Ca’ Foscari e Università IUAV, Venezia, 1-2 March 2011.
“Scientists as Narrators. Epistemology and Aesthetics in Contemporary British Science Writing”, British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 2011, Pitt Building, Cambridge, 9 April 2011.
“Representing and Narrativizing Science”, keynote speech, Literature and Chemistry. Elective Affinities, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, 29-30 October 2011.
2012
“Con stupore forestiero. Il Tempio Malatestiano e i viaggiatori europei fra Ottocento e Novecento”, keynote speech, Festival del Mondo Antico, Museo della Città, Rimini, 22 June 2012.
“Narrativization and Public Understanding of Science: A Mutually Beneficial Liaison?”, International Workshop SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science funded by the Research Council of Norway, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 21-22 September 2012.
“Il dialogo platonico nell’Inghilterra dell’Ottocento”, Generi letterari e performance. La tradizione dell’oralità, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 8 October 2012.
“Sustainability and the Humanities”, research project presented at the conference on Sustainability, Research and Teaching after Rio. Challenges for the Future promoted by the International Network Routes towards Sustainability, Università di Ferrara, 30 October 2012.
“Myths in Science”, II International Workshop SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science funded by the Research Council of Norway, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, 6-7 December 2012.
“Juvenile, Lasting Thoughts towards Poetry, Literature, and Art”, presentation of The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012) by Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 12 December 2012. With John Robert Holmes (University of Reading).
2013
“Prefigurare, avverare, trasformare: la città utopica come luogo progettuale e reale”, seminar, I part “La città ideale nel Rinascimento e in epoca vittoriana (1837-1901)”; II part “La città ideale nelle avanguardie e nella narrativa contemporanea”, Master in Eco-Polis. Smart City, Urban Creativity and Collaborative Local Development, Università di Ferrara, 9-10 April 2013.
“Topoi mitici nella narrazione della scienza”, Department Lecture IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 8 May 2013.
“Critical Aesthetic Prose in The Germ as the Foundation of William Michael Rossetti’s and Frederic George Stephens’s Art Criticism”, Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future, Brookes University, Ashmolean Museum and St John’s College, Oxford, 13-14 September 2013.
“Racconti di viaggio britannici e angloamericani”, Il Tempio Malatestiano oltre l’Italia. Scritti forestieri fra Ottocento e Novecento, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, 18 October 2013.
“Rappresentare e narrare le scienze”, Interculturalità nelle discipline scientifiche e umanistiche, IUSS Colloquia, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 24 October 2013.
2014
“Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body”, Seminar for the MSc in Medical Humanities coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, King’s College, London, 23 and 30 January 2014.
“Towards a Redefinition of Literary and Scientific Writing”, Lecture for the Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Linguistiche e Letterarie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Milan, 18 March 2014.
“Museums as Sites of Cultural Memory”, International Symposium Cultures of Sustainability in the Age of Climate Crisis promoted by COST Action IS1007: Investigating Cultural Sustainability, University of Telemark, Bø, Norway, 13-15 May 2014.
“Narratives and Portraits of Sustainable Ageing”, International Workshop Histories, Mythologies and Taboos of Ageing, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, 4-5 June 2014.
“(Un)Sustainable Societies in Utopia, Dystopia and Steampunk Fiction”, International Symposium Routing Sustainable Development towards a Culture of Wellbeing promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, University of Ferrara, 1-2 October 2014.
2015
“Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body”, Seminar for the MSc in Medical Humanities coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, King’s College, London, 5 and 12 February 2015.
“Apocalypse and Palingenesis in British Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Contemporary Age”, Lecture for the Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Linguistiche e Letterarie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Milan, 19 March 2015.
“Società (in)sostenibili in utopia, distopia e nella narrativa steampunk”, Lecture for U-TOPOS – Centro de Estudos sobre Utopias da Unicamp, Departamento de Teoria Literária, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 18 September 2015.
“(Un)sustainable Societies in Utopia, Dystopia and Steampunk Fiction”, International Symposium Routes towards Sustainability Cidades, Saude e Bem-estar Cities, Health and Wellness promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Monday 28 September - Friday 2 October 2015.
“In a Prescient Mode. Apocalypse and Palingenesis in Contemporary British Novels”, TransLiterations. Contemporary Writing from Other Literatures, Languages and Media, International Conference, University of Ferrara, Department of Humanistic Studies, Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 November 2015.
“Hungry and Angry: Narrating Cities of Prey”, The City that Adapts. Interviewing Societies, Cultures and the Built Environment, International Seminar promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, IUSS - Ferrara 1391, 4 December 2015.
2016
“Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body”, Seminar for the MSc in Medical Humanities coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, King’s College, London, 4 and 11 February 2016.
V. PUBLICATIONS
V.1. BOOKS
1. Sopra il reale. Osmosi interartistiche nel Preraffaellitismo e nel Simbolismo inglese (Firenze: Alinea, 2005), 403 p.
2. The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), 284 p. With E. Bizzotto.
V.2. EDITED BOOKS AND JOURNALS
1. Dictionary of Literary Utopias, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (Paris: Champion, 2000), 732 p. Assistant Editor and member of the Scientific Committee.
2. Vite di Utopia, volume IX of Forme dell’Utopia, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Paola Spinozzi (Ravenna: Longo, 2000), 335 p.
3. Utopianism / Literary Utopias and National Cultural Identities: a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Paola Spinozzi (Bologna: Compositori, 2001), 393 p.
4. Perfezione e finitudine. La concezione della morte nell’utopia in età moderna e contemporanea, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Marina Sozzi, Paola Spinozzi (Torino: Lindau, 2004), 282 p.
5. The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art, ed., with an Introduction, by Elisa Bizzotto and Paola Spinozzi (Trento: Editrice Università di Trento, Collana Reperti, 2008), 192 p.
6. Histoire Transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), 1359 p.
7. Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Alessandro Zironi (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010), 290 p.
8. Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Brian Hurwitz (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011), 299 p.
9. Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture, vol. 23, no. 45 (September 2013), Memory, Conflict & Commerce in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Martin Procházka, Paola Spinozzi and Rui Carvalho Homem, 130 pp.
V.3. INTRODUCTIONS
1. “Introduzione” to Perfezione e finitudine. La concezione della morte nell’utopia in età moderna e contemporanea, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Marina Sozzi, Paola Spinozzi (Torino: Lindau, 2004), pp. 5-28. With V. Fortunati and M. Sozzi.
2. “Introduzione” to The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art, ed., with an Introduction, by Elisa Bizzotto and Paola Spinozzi (Trento: Editrice Università di Trento, Collana Reperti, 2008), pp. XI-XLI. With E. Bizzotto.
3. “Introduction” to Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), pp. 19-30. With V. Fortunati and R. Trousson.
4. “Introduction” to Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Alessandro Zironi (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010), pp. 11-21. With A. Zironi.
5. “Science, Discoursivity, and Narrativity”, in Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Brian Hurwitz (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011), pp. 13-30. With B. Hurwitz.
6. “Memory, Conflict & Commerce in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction”, Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture, vol. 23, no. 45 (September 2013), Memory, Conflict & Commerce in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Martin Procházka, Paola Spinozzi and Rui Carvalho Homem, pp. 1-5. With Martin Procházka and Rui Carvalho Homem.
V.4. ESSAYS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1997
1. “Metamorfosi interartistiche nei poemi iconici di William Morris”, Il Lettore di provincia. Testi ricerche critica, anno XXVIII, n. 98 (Ravenna: Longo, 1997), pp. 55-80.
1998
2. “Figurazioni del passato nella saggistica di William Morris: la storia dell’Inghilterra pre-industriale, un ‘discorso’ sul socialismo”, in Pellegrini della Speranza. William Morris cent’anni dopo. Edvige Schulte un anno dopo, ed. by Adriana Corrado (Napoli: Cuen, 1998), pp. 231-253.
1999
3. “As Yet Untitled. by A Sonnet by Walter Crane for a Painting by G. F. Watts: Ekphrasis as Nomination”, Textus, XII, 1 (1999), Literature and the Arts, ed. by Stephen Bann and Vita Fortunati, pp. 113-134.
2000
4. Entries for the Dictionary of Literary Utopias, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (Paris: Champion, 2000):
Across the Zodiac (1880) by Percy Greg, pp. 24-26;
Etymonia (1875), anonymous, p. 211;
James Ingleton: The History of a Social State. A.D. 2000. “By Mr. Dick” (1893), p. 324;
Lord of the World (1907) by Robert Hugh Benson, p. 365;
The Lost Children (1931) by Herman H. Chilton, pp. 365-366;
Meda. A Tale of the Future. As Related by Kenneth Folingsby (1891), anonymous, pp. 386-387;
Three Hundred Years Hence (1881) di William Delisle Hay, p. 602.
5. “‘And in the Dark House Was I Loved’: William Morris and Kelmscott Manor”, in Vite d’Utopia, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Paola Spinozzi (Ravenna: Longo, 2000), pp. 167-177.
2001
6. “Dis/Locating the British Empire in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon”, in Utopianism / Literary Utopias and National Cultural Identities: a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Paola Spinozzi (Bologna: Compositori, 2001), pp. 149-162.
2002
7. “Sapere (è) rappresentare. Evoluzioni della conoscenza in Morpho Eugenia di A. S. Byatt”, in Le riscritture del postmoderno. Percorsi angloamericani, ed. by Ornella De Zordo and Fiorenzo Fantaccini (Bari: Palomar athenaeum, 2002), pp. 355-388.
8. “A Proto-Modernist Artist-Critic Encounters a Victorian Painter-Poet: Ford Madox Ford on Dante Gabriel Rossetti”, in Ford Madox Ford and the Republic of Letters, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Elena Lamberti (Bologna: Clueb, 2002), pp. 80-95.
2003
9. “Dialectics between Labour and Rest in Morris’s Utopia: News from Nowhere (1890)”, with Vita Fortunati, Utopias. Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, 6/7 Dezembro 2003), Org. Fátima Vieira e Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva (Porto: Granito Editores e Livreiros, 2003), pp. 119-137.
10. “Made of Metonymy. Beguiling of the Female Body in Pre-Raphaelitism”, in The Controversial Women’s Body: Images and Representations in Literature and Art, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Anna Maria Lamarra, Eleonora Federici (Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2003), pp. 45-69.
11. “Arte ed estetica in utopia”, in Dall’utopia all’utopismo. Percorsi tematici, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Raymond Trousson, Adriana Corrado, Introduction by Francesco De Sanctis (Napoli: CUEN, 2003), pp. 385-404.
2004
12. “The Fixed Period di Anthony Trollope e la pedagogia del ‘giusto’ morire nelle utopie della seconda metà dell’Ottocento inglese”, in Perfezione e finitudine. La concezione della morte nell’utopia in età moderna e contemporanea, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Marina Sozzi, Paola Spinozzi (Torino: Lindau, 2004), pp. 227-254.
13. “The Revival of the Past and the Tension towards the Future in the Urban Imagery of Victorian Utopias”, in Le Corti e la Città Ideale / Courts and the Ideal City, ed. by Gabriella Morisco and Alessandra Calanchi (Bari: Schena, 2004), pp. 119-145.
14. “Figuring the Otherworldly. Late Victorian Visions of Shakespeare’s Fairy Lore”, in Metamorphosing Shakespeare. Mutual Illuminations of the Arts, ed. by Mariangela Tempera and Patricia Kennan (Bologna: Clueb, 2004), pp. 93-108.
2005
15. “Art and Aesthetics in Utopia: William Morris’s Response to the Challenge of the ‘Art of the People’”, in Utopia Matters. Theory, Politics, Literature and the Arts, ed. by Fátima Vieira and Marinela Freitas (Porto: Universidade do Porto, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 229-235.
16. “Gulfs of Time, Ties with the Past: Uchronia Re-Conceptualised”, Dedalus. Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, issue devoted to Memory and Forgetfulness. Conception, Reception, Interception, n. 10 (Chamusca: Edições Cosmos, 2005), pp. 111-121.
2006
17. “Ekphrasis as Portrait: A. S. Byatt’s Fictional and Visual Doppelgänger”, in Writing and Seeing. Essays on Word and Image, ed. by Rui Carvalho Homem and Maria de Fátima Lambert (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, IFAVL - Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 2006), pp. 223-231.
18. “Stoicism among the Victorians? The Legacy of Old Norse Sagas in William Morris’s Utopian Views of Humanity”, in The Cultural Reconstruction of Places, ed. by Ástráður Eysteinsson (Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press, 2006), pp. 186-199.
2007
19. “Primitivo, primigenio. La ricerca dell’‘autenticità’ nell’estetica preraffaellita”, in Il primitivismo e le sue metamorfosi. Archeologia di un discorso culturale, a cura di Gilberta Golinelli (Bologna: Clueb, 2007), pp. 289-305.
20. “Interarts and Illustration: Some Historical Antecedents, Theoretical Issues, and Methodological Orientations”, JOIS. Journal of Illustration Studies (December 2007), http://www.jois.cf.ac.uk/articles.php?article=43.
21. “In Vasto and in London: the Rossettis’ Houses as Mirrors of Dislocated National Identities”, in Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory, ed. by Harald Hendrix (New York and London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 149-162.
2008
22. “Looking Backward”, in Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), pp. 661-675.
23. “Impérialisme, racisme, evolutionnisme: la dérive de l’utopisme dans la littérature victorienne”, in Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), pp. 785-807.
24. “Art et utopie au 19ème siècle”, in Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), pp. 809-818.
25. “Arts of Representation: Interart Dynamics in Victorian Photography, Painting, and Literature”, in Pictures of Modernity. The Visual and the Literary in England, 1850-1930, ed. by Loretta Innocenti, Franco Marucci, Enrica Villari (Venezia: Cafoscarina, collana Le Bricole, 2008), pp. 59-71.
2009
26. “Journeying through Translation: Dante among the Victorians, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Medieval Italy”, in Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by Francesca Orestano and Francesca Frigerio (Bern - Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 77-96.
27. “The Quest for Verbal/Visual Cosmos in William Morris’s Calligraphy and Typography”, in Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Subjectivity at the Fin de Siècle, ed. by Claire I. R. O’Mahony (High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2009), pp. 109-142.
28. “More [than] Human. The Debate on Post-Humanity at the Intersection of Scientific Thought, Technological Experimentation and Literary Vision”, Act. 18, Alteridades, Cruzamentos, Transferências, volume dedicated to Utopia e Ciência, ed. by Lourdes Câncio Martins (Ribeirão: Edições Húmus, 2009), pp. 155-166.
29. “Anti-pittorialismo sublime e ragione etica: la dialettica del gusto nella Inquiry di Edmund Burke”, I Castelli di Yale. Quaderni di Filosofia, vol. X, no. 10 (2009), pp. 91-101.
2010
30. “The Origin of Art: Towards Humanistic-Scientific Theories and Methodologies”, in Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Alessandro Zironi (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010), pp. 59-80.
31. “Critica d’arte e memoria culturale nell’Italia di William Michael Rossetti”, in I Rossetti e l’Italia, a cura di Gianni Oliva e Mirko Menna (Lanciano: Carabba, 2010), pp. 381-405.
2011
32. “Representing and Narrativizing Science”, in Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Brian Hurwitz (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011), pp. 31-60.
33. “Contro Bodoni, prima delle avanguardie: l’arte tipografica di William Morris fra intermedialità e teoria sociale”, Crisopoli. Bollettino del Museo Bodoniano di Parma, no. 13, 2007/2010 [Nuova Serie I], pp. 53-63.
34. “The Topos of Ragnarök in the Utopian Thought of William Morris”, in Eddische Götter und Helden. Milieus und Medien ihrer Rezeption / Eddic Gods and Heroes. The Milieux and Media of Their Reception, ed. by Katja Schulz (Heidelberg: Winter, 2011), pp. 187-198.
35. “Engineering Organisms into Art: the Aesthetic Élan of the Biosciences”, in The Human and its Limits, ed. by Margareth Hagen, Randi Koppen, and Margery Vibe Skagen (Olso: Scandinavian Academic Press - Spartacus Forlag: 2011), pp. 77-93.
2013
36. “Utopia, The City of the Sun and New Atlantis as Manifestos of Utopian Ideals in the European Renaissance”, Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture, vol. 23, no. 45 (September 2013) Memory, Conflict & Commerce in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Martin Procházka, Paola Spinozzi and Rui Carvalho Homem, pp. 6-25.
2014
37. “Accurate Reproduction, Ingenious Representation: Lucy and Walter Crane’s Household Stories, from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm (1882)”, WORD & IMAGE. A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 30, no. 4 (2014), pp. 261-272.
2015
38. “‘Preposterous thicks and thins’: i libri ideali di William Morris fra intermedialità e teoria sociale”, L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, vol. XXIII, no. 2 (2015), pp. 285-296.
V.5. REVIEWS
“Storia della letteratura inglese di Franco Marucci, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2006. Volume IV: dal 1870 al 1920”, Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate, vol. 60, no. 4 (2008), pp. 527-530.
“Victorian Disharmonies. A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction di Francesco Marroni, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2010, Il confronto letterario. Quaderni di letterature straniere moderne e comparate dell’Università di Pavia, vol. 54 (2011), pp. 402-406.
V.6. EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2000
Assistant Editor and member of the scientific committee of Dictionary of Literary Utopias, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (Paris: Champion, 2000), 732 p.
2008
Editor and member of the scientific committee of Histoire Transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), 1359 p.
2010-
Member of the scientific committee of the book series Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht), http://www.v-r.de/en/seriesdetail-0-0/interfacing_science_literature_and_the_humanities-3069/.
VI. COORDINATOR OF SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS
VI.1. CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
2000
Utopianism / Literary Utopias and National Cultural Identities: a Comparative Perspective, conference, European Thematic Nework Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA), Rimini, 5-9 July 2000. Scientific coordinator with Vita Fortunati.
2003
Metamorphosing Shakespeare. Mutual Illuminations of the Arts, conference, Università di Ferrara, 14-16 March 2003. Scientific coordinator with Mariangela Tempera.
2007
Human and Post-Human: Cultural Origins and Futures, conference, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and King’s College, London, 29-30 September 2007. Scientific coordinator with Max Saunders and Brian Hurwitz.
Narrativity, Temporality and Discourse at the Interface, workshop, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 29 June 2007. Scientific coordinator with Irène Bessière.
Decoding the Origins, workshop, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and University of Warwick, Coventry, 10-11 December 2007. Scientific coordinator with Alessandro Zironi and Susan Bassnett.
2008
Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, conference, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, 12-13 May 2008. Scientific coordinator with Alessandro Zironi.
L’origine, il fine. Le arti e la cultura vittoriana attraverso lo sguardo dei Preraffaelliti, presentation of The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art, a cura, e con introduzione, di Elisa Bizzotto e Paola Spinozzi (Trento: Editrice Università di Trento, Collana Reperti, 2008), Biblioteca Ariostea, Ferrara, 2 December 2008. Scientific coordinator.
2012
International Workshop SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science funded by the Research Council of Norway, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 21-22 September 2012. Scientific coordinator.
“Juvenile, Lasting Thoughts towards Poetry, Literature, and Art”, presentation of The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012) by Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 12 December 2012. With John Robert Holmes (University of Reading). Scientific coordinator.
2013
Il Tempio Malatestiano oltre l’Italia. Racconti forestieri fra Ottocento e Novecento, series of 4 conferences with 16 scholars, promoted by the Assessorato alla Cultura di Rimini and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Rimini, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, 18 October - 29 November 2013. Scientific coordinator.
Interculturalità nelle discipline scientifiche e umanistiche, 8 Interdepartmental Colloquia aimed for PhD students and involving 24 scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, October 2013 - March 2014. Scientific coordinator.
2014
General Meeting of the International University Network Routes towards Sustainability, University of Ferrara, Department of Economics and Management, 30 September 2014. Scientific coordinator with Gianfranco Franz.
Routing Sustainable Development towards a Culture of Wellbeing, International Symposium promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, University of Ferrara, Department of Architecture, 1-2 October 2014. Scientific coordinator.
INTRA/INTER: The Cores of Scientific and Humanistic Disciplines, 7 Interdepartmental Colloquia aimed for PhD students and involving 24 scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, December 2014 - March 2015. Scientific coordinator.
2015
Cidades, Saude e Bem-estar Cities, Health and Wellness, International Symposium promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, 28 September - 2 October 2015. Scientific coordinator with Gianfranco Franz.
TransLiterations. Contemporary Writing from Other Literatures, Languages and Media, International Conference, University of Ferrara, Department of Humanistic Studies, 26-28 November 2015. Scientific coordinator.
The City that Adapts. Interviewing Societies, Cultures and the Built Environment, International Seminar of Routes towards Sustainability, IUSS - Ferrara 1391, 4 December 2015. Scientific Coordinator with Gianfranco Franz.
VI.2. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
1997 - 1999
CNR (National Council for Research) funded research programme Il corpo e la mente nella letteratura utopica europea e nordamericana [Body and Mind in European and North-American Utopian Literature].
1999
CNR (National Council for Research) funded research programme Storia e biografia nel paradigma utopico [History and Biography in the Utopian Paradigm].
2000 - 2001
CNR (National Council for Research) funded research programme Utopia e identità nazionale: una prospettiva comparata [Utopia and National Identity: a Comparative Perspective].
1998 - 2002
European Thematic Network Project Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA), 55845-CP-2-99-1-ET-ERASMUS-ETN.
Participation in subproject 1, Comparative Literature: Theory, Praxis, Methodology.
Participation in subproject 6, A Comparison between National Cultural Identities and Literary Utopias: a Challenging Perspective.
2003 - 2006
European Thematic Network Project ACUME. Cultural Memory in European Countries. An Interdisciplinary Approach, 104329-CP-1-2002-1-IT-ERASMUS-TN.
Participation in subproject 3, Landscape and Places.
Participation in sub-project 4, Oral and Written History.
2005
Universutopia, Programme Cadre Culture 2000.
European research programme on real and virtual utopian places, http://www.universutopia.net/. Partner institutions: CYPRES - Centre Interculturel de Pratiques et Echanges Transdisciplinaires (Marseille, France), La Saline Royale (Arc-et-Senans, France), Familistère Godin (Guise, France), Mundaneum (Mons, Belgium), CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies (Prague, Czech Republic), Architect Alok Nandi, CIRU - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca dell’Utopia dell’Università di Bologna.
8 October - 3 November 2006
Visiting Fellowship. Research project: Interarts and Illustration: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Fellowship funded by the School of English, Communication and Philosophy (ENCAP), University of Cardiff.
1 November 2006 - 31 September 2009
European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach, http://acume2.web.cs.unibo.it/
Scientific co-coordinator of sub-project 2, Cultural Representations of Science and Technology.
Participation in sub-projects 1, Theoretical Approaches.
Participation in sub-project 3, Scientific Myth-making: Life-Writing, Travel-Writing, Memoirs.
January - December 2012
SAMKUL project SciLiterature, 218420, http://www.forskningsradet.no/prognett-samkul/Home_page/1253964329585, 2012.
Scientific coordinator of SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science, International workshop, Ferrara, 21-22 September 2012 and presentation of the paper “Narrativization and Public Understanding of Science: A Mutually Beneficial Liaison?”. Participation in SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science, International seminar, Universitetet i Bergen, 6-7 December 2012 and presentation of the paper “Myths in Science Narrativization”.
2014-
International University Network Routes towards Sustainability. Partner Universities: An-Najah National University (PNA), Humboldt Universität, Berlin (D), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (RCH), Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba (BR), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou (PRC), Universidad Católica de Cordoba (AR), Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis du Sénégal (SN), Università di Ferrara (IT), Uniwersytet Warszawski (PL), Waseda University, Tokyo (J). Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara with Gianfranco Franz.
May 2014-May 2015
COST Action IS1007: Investigating Cultural Sustainability, http://www.culturalsustainability.eu/, coordinated by Prof. Katriina Soini, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and comprising 88 members of 27 European countries. Member of the Action.
Since October 2014
Communication Strategies, Policies and Models of Behaviour as Agents/Vehicles of Sustainability, a research project selected and funded by the Committee for Internationalization, University of Ferrara. Research team: Massimiliano Mazzanti and Gianfranco Franz, Department of Economics and Management; Stefano Manfredini, Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies; Vincenzo Guidi, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences. Partner universities: Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil; An-Najah National University, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine; University of Hanoi, Vietnam. Scientific coordinator.
2015
La scrittura come lettura di altre scritture, a departmental research project selected and funded by the University of Ferrara. Research team: Matteo Galli and Monica Longobardi. Scientific co-coordinator with Isabella Mattazzi.
VI.3. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TEACHING PROGRAMMES
22 March - 2 April 2004
Socrates Intensive Programme European Shakespeares: Towards an Integrated European Curriculum.
Host Institution: Università di Ferrara. Partner institutions: Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands). Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; plenary lectures on Shakespeare and the Arts and Victorian Shakespeare.
4 - 16 April 2005
Socrates Intensive Programme European Shakespeares: Towards an Integrated European Curriculum.
Host Institution: Università di Ferrara. Partner institutions: Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands). Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; plenary lectures on Illustrated Shakespeare and Painterly Representations of Shakespeare’s Fairy Lore.
27 March - 8 April 2006
Socrates Intensive Programme European Shakespeares: Towards an Integrated European Curriculum.
Host Institution: Università di Ferrara. Partner institutions: Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands). Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; plenary lecture on Re-Viewing Caliban’s Otherness.
7-19 April 2008
Socrates Intensive Programme Shakespeare and European Culture: Texts and Images Across Borders
Host Institution: Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic) and Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; seminars on Encountering the Victorians Encountering Shakespeare Encountering the Fantastic and the Supernatural; lecture on Victorian Visual Transpositions of Shakespeare’s Fairy Lore.
23 March - 4 April 2009
Erasmus Intensive Programme Shakespeare and European Culture: Texts and Images Across Borders.
Host institution: Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic) and Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; seminars on Mythical Encounters. Shakespeare’s Appreciation of Ovid’s and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses; lecture on Encountering the Victorians Encountering Shakespeare Encountering the Fantastic and the Supernatural.
15-26 March 2010
Erasmus Intensive Programme Shakespeare and European Culture: Texts and Images Across Borders.
Host institution: Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic) and Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; seminars on Mythical Encounters. Shakespeare’s Appreciation of Ovid’s and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses; lecture on Situating Mrs Shakespeare: Evidence, Stereotypes and New Hypotheses.
4-5 February 2011
Preparatory Meeting for the Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme Staging European Identities: Memory, Conflict and Commerce in Early Modern European Culture, Universiteit Utrecht.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara.
14-26 May 2013
Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme Staging European Identities: Memory, Conflict and Commerce in Early Modern European Culture. Host institution: Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III (France), Universytet Jagiellonski (Poland), Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; four-day seminar on “Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as the Prototype of a Transnational Literary Genre”; plenary lecture on “Ideal Conceptions of Society and Culture in Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Tommaso Campanella’s La Città del Sole (1602), and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627)”.
23 January - 30 February 2014
Erasmus Staff Mobility – Teaching Assignment.
Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body: seminar for the MSc course in Medical Humanities at King’s College, London, coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health.
Session 1 - The Early Modern Body: Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), William Hogarth’s The Reward of Cruelty, in The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751).
Session 2 - The Modern and Contemporary Body: William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1890), Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928), and contemporary bioart.
19-31 May 2014
Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme Staging European Identities: Memory, Conflict and Commerce in Early Modern European Culture. Host institution: Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III (France), Universytet Jagiellonski (Poland), Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; four-day seminar on “Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as the Prototype of a Transnational Literary Genre”; plenary lecture on “Ideal Conceptions of Society and Culture in Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Tommaso Campanella’s La Città del Sole (1602), and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627)”.
5 - 12 February 2015
Erasmus Staff Mobility – Teaching Assignment.
Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body: seminar for the MSc course in Medical Humanities at King’s College, London, coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health.
Session 1 - The Early Modern Body: Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), William Hogarth’s The Reward of Cruelty, in The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751).
Session 2 - The Modern and Contemporary Body: William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1890), Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928), and contemporary bioart.
10-18 April 2015
Visiting Professorship. MA course on Culture and Ideology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Escola de Educação e Humanidades.
4 - 11 February 2016
Erasmus Staff Mobility – Teaching Assignment.
Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body: seminar for the MSc course in Medical Humanities at King’s College, London, coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health.
Session 1 - The Early Modern Body: Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), William Hogarth’s The Reward of Cruelty, in The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751).
Session 2 - The Modern and Contemporary Body: William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1890), Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928), and contemporary bioart.
VII. INTERNATIONALISATION
VII.1. INTERNATIONALISATION: RESEARCH
2014
Since January 2014 co-cordinator of the International University Network Routes towards Sustainability, http://www.unife.it/international/networks/routes-1/network, founded by the University of Ferrara and comprising universities from Europe: Germany Poland, France, Portugal, Serbia, United Kingdom; Africa: Senegal; Latin America: Chile, Brazil and Argentina; Asia: China, Japan and Vietnam. The aim of the Network is to enhance internationalisation in relation to paradigms and practices of sustainability in economic, environmental, political and cultural terms.
Scientific coordinator of Routing Sustainable Development towards a Culture of Wellbeing, International Symposium of Routes towards Sustainability, University of Ferrara, 1-2 October 2014. Sessions on: Human Development vis-à-vis Economic Dynamics; Habitat and Citizenship; Engineered Environment; Politics and Policies of Sustainability; Sustaining Cultures.
2015
Scientific co-coordinator of the International Symposium Cidades, Saude e Bem-estar Cities, Health and Wellness, International Symposium of Routes towards Sustainability, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Monday 28 September - Friday 2 October 2015. Sessions on: Theories and Practices of Sustainability; New Models of Spatial Planning; Session III – Mobility and Wellbeing; Eco-Efficiency and Alternative Energies; Climate Change, Resilience and Adaptability
Scientific co-coordinator of The City that Adapts. Interviewing Societies, Cultures and the Built Environment, International Seminar of Routes towards Sustainability, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 4 December 2015.
VII.2. INTERNATIONALISATION: TEACHING
2013-2014
Creation and coordination of a double degree diploma including the Laurea Magistrale in Lingue e Letterature straniere – classe LM37, University of Ferrara, and the Curso de Pós-Graduação / Especialização – Língua Inglesa: Metodologia do Ensino e Tradução, Escola de Educação e Humanidades, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR.
2014
Creation and coordination of an agreement between the University of Ferrara and the University of Hanoi, Vietnam. Students from the University of Hanoi can enrol at the University of Ferrara and attend BA and MA courses at the Department of Humanistic Studies and at the Department of Economics and Management. Students from the University of Ferrara can enrol at the University of Hanoi and attend BA and MA courses at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and at the Faculty of International Studies.
2015
Visiting Professorship. MA course on Culture and Ideology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Escola de Educação e Humanidades.
VIII. RESEARCH CENTRES AND ASSOCIATIONS
Member of the Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, Università di Bologna.
Member of A.I.A. Associazione Italiana di Anglistica, http://www.anglisti.it/.
Member of BSLS. The British Society for Literature and Science, http://www.bsls.ac.uk/.
IX. TEACHING ACTIVITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA
IX.1. BA AND MA COURSES
2000-2001
COMPARATIVE ARTS, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Interart Studies: On Theory and Methodology.
2001-2002
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Artists on Art. Meta-literary Discourses from the Renaissance to Modernism.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Writing of History. Historical Romance and Historical Novel in the Victorian Age.
2002-2003
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Romance: Genealogy and Mutations of a Literary Genre.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Impact of Scientific Discoveries on the Literary Imagery from 1600 to our Age.
2003-2004
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Ekphrasis and Iconic Poems in 19th- and 20th-century English Literature.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Utopia as a Literary Genre: Genealogy and Hybridisations.
2004-2005
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Past and Future in the Urban Imagery of Victorian Utopias.
2005-2006
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Pre-Raphaelitism and English Symbolism: Modes of Figuration between Literature and the Visual Arts.
2006-2007
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Enchantment of Imagination in Fantasy.
2007-2008
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Concept of Human. Representations of Humanity in Relation to Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Science, Technology and Literary Imagination.
2008-2009
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Mythical Encounters. Classical and Old Norse Mythology in British Culture between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century.
2009-2010
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Narrators and Scientists. Creative and Scientific Writing in British Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
2010-2011
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Raccontare la scienza. La scrittura creativa e scientifica nella cultura britannica fra Ottocento e Novecento.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Riviste letterarie e manifesti estetici in Gran Bretagna fra il 1850 e il 1945.
2011-2012
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
What Genre? A Map of English Literature through Literary Genre.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Towards a Definition of the Epistemic Genre. Science in Literature.
2012-2013
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Why (English) Literature?.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
English Literature and the Canon.
2013-2014
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Critical and Creative Writing in English Literature.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Mythical and Biblical Topoi in British Scientific Fiction.
2014-2015
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
(Un)Sustainable Societies in Utopian, Scifi, Catastrophe and Steampunk Novels.
2015-2016
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Apocalypse and Palingenesis in British Literature from the Early Modern to the Contemporary Age.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
British Literature, Comparative Literature, World Literature.
IX.2. PHD PROGRAMMES
2013-
Member of the PhD programme in the Humanities, DOT1309877. Scientific Coordinator: Carlo Peretto. Curricula: 1. Quaternary and Prehistory 2. Studies in Archaeology, Arts, Cinema, Heritage, History (Ancient to Contemporary) and Music 3. Studies in Philology, Linguistics, and Literatures 4. Studies in Philosophy, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology.
Interculturalità nelle discipline scientifiche e umanistiche, 8 Interdepartmental Colloquia aimed for PhD students and involving 24 scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, October 2013 - March 2014. Scientific coordinator.
INTRA/INTER: The Cores of Scientific and Humanistic Disciplines, 7 Interdepartmental Colloquia aimed for PhD students and involving 24 scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, December 2014 - March 2015. Scientific Coordinator.
COMMUNICATING SUSTAINABILITY. Strategies, Policies and Models of Behaviour, Intensive Programme for PhD students at the University of Ferrara and involving national and international scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 22-26 May 2016.
PAOLA SPINOZZI, born in Rimini (RN), Italy, on the 9th of September 1966
Associate Professor of English Literature
Department of Humanistic Studies
University of Ferrara
Via Savonarola 27
44100 - Ferrara - Italy
paola.spinozzi@unife.it
www.unife.it
http://docente.unife.it/paola.spinozzi
I. EDUCATIONAL HISTORY
18 March 1993
Bachelor’s + Master’s degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures (laurea quadriennale), University of Bologna. Thesis: L’evoluzione del ruolo e della figura femminile nell’opera di William Morris fra suggestioni preraffaellite e “The Woman Question” [Pre-Raphaelite Visions and the Woman Question. Figures of Femininity in the Work of William Morris] First Class Honours (110 cum laude).
13 - 17 June 1994
Shakespeare and the New Historicism, seminar held by Stephen Greenblatt, Palazzo Serra di Cassano, Naples. Bursary offered by the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici.
1 November 1995 - 31 December 1999
Four-year PhD course in English Studies, University of Florence, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Scholarship obtained through a national competition. PhD thesis: As Painting Poetry Shall (Not) Be. L’estetica della scrittura figurata: ekphrasis, illustrazione, calligrafia nella poesia preraffaellita e simbolista [As Painting Poetry Shall (Not) Be. Aesthetics of Figurative Writing: Ekphrasis, Illustration and Calligraphy in Pre-Raphaelite and Symbolist Poetry].
27 - 30 June 1996
William Morris Centenary Conference, Exeter College, Oxford. Bursary offered by The William Morris Society.
10 - 19 July 1996
The Contemporary British Writer, 1996 Cambridge Seminar, Downing College, Cambridge. Bursary offered by the British Council.
20 June 2000 - 20 June 2002
Two-year post-doctoral fellowship, University of Bologna, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Fellowship obtained through a national competition. Research project: Parola e immagine nel primo Novecento: l’eredità del Preraffaelitismo [Word and Image in the Early 20th-Century: the Legacy of Pre-Raphaelitism].
8 October - 3 November 2006
Visiting Fellowship, University of Cardiff. Research Project: Interarts and Illustration: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Fellowship offered by the University of Cardiff, School of English, Communication and Philosophy.
II. ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
2000-2001
Lecturer in Comparative Studies, Department di Human Sciences, University of Ferrara.
1 September 2001 - 28 February 2015
Lecturer in English Literature, Department of Human Sciences, University of Ferrara.
1 March 2015 -
Associate Professor of English Literature, Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara.
III. INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Since April 2008
Coordinator of the Programme for Personal and Academic Support Tutor for the BA and MA courses in Foreign Languages and Literatures.
Since 7 July 2009
Member of the Advisory Committee for the teaching of foreign languages at the University of Ferrara.
Since 27 March 2013
Member of the Joint Committee of Teachers and Students for the Department of Humanistic Studies, University of Ferrara.
Since 20 January 2014
Co-cordinator of the International University Network Routes towards Sustainability.
Since October 2014
Member of the Committe for the “University and Sustainability” Prize awarded by the University of Ferrara.
IV. RESEARCH
IV.1. FIELDS OF STUDY
SOCIAL, CULTURAL, LITERARY AND ARTISTIC CONTEXT OF GREAT BRITAIN
British literature and the arts in the sixteenth century, the Victorian Age, Modernism and Post-modernism.
INTERART / INTERMEDIAL STUDIES
Theories and methodologies; ekphrasis; illustration; calligraphy; verbal/visual aesthetics in the Victorian Age and in Pre-Raphaelitism; Interart osmosis in the work of W. Morris, D. G. Rossetti, W. Crane; Illustrated Victorian Shakespeare; Word and image in A. S. Byatt’s fiction and essays.
UTOPIAN STUDIES
Utopian literature in relation to science and technology, art and aesthetics, urban imagery, evolutionism, nationalism, imperialism, racism. The utopian thought of Thomas More, Francis Bacon, William Morris, Samuel Butler, Anthony Trollope, William Henry Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Percy Greg, Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells, Katharine Burdekin, J. G. Ballard, Michael Marshall Smith, Kazuo Ishiguro.
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
Science, discoursivity and narrativity; literary representations, fictionalisation and popularisation of scientific theories and discoveries; science in art; aesthetics and ethics of bioart. The writing of science by Samuel Butler, H. G. Wells, Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, A. S. Byatt.
CULTURAL MEMORY
The formation of national and cultural identities in Europe. Writers’ houses as media of expression and remembrance; the making of memory through the Italian and English houses of Gabriele, Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti; the reception of old Norse culture and the construction of Englishness in the Victorian Age and in the works of William Morris, Matthew Arnold and Thomas Carlyle.
INTERCULTURALITY
The sciences and the humanities as systems of knowledge and representation connected by interculturality. Interculturality as a notion of interface between different systems of thought. Intercultural episteme as characterised by the autonomy and synergy of specific disciplinary discourses through which scientists and humanities scholars contribute to the production of culture.
SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES
Sustainable production, use, and management of culture, science, and technology. The energetic holocaust, alternate history and post-apocalyptic futures, the Do It Yourself lifestyle and practices of reusing/recycling as forms of ecological intervention in the genres of utopia, dystopia and steampunk.
IV.2. CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
1996
“Figurazioni del passato nella saggistica di William Morris: la storia dell’Inghilterra pre-industriale, un ‘discorso’ sul socialismo”, Pellegrini della Speranza. William Morris cent’anni dopo. Edvige Schulte un anno dopo, Istituto Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, 13-14 December 1996.
1997
“‘And in the Dark House Was I Loved’: William Morris and Kelmscott Manor”, Vite d’Utopia / Utopian Lives, Università di Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, and Università di Milano, Gargnano sul Garda (Brescia), 9-11 June 1997.
1999
“Interart Studies: On Theory and Methodology”, General Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA), Università di Bologna, Bertinoro (Forlì - Cesena), 19-21 March 1999.
2000
“Dis/Locating the British Empire in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon”, A Comparison between National Cultural Identities and Literary Utopias: a Challenging Perspective, European Thematic Network Project Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA) and Università di Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, Rimini, 5-9 July 2000.
2001
“The Modernist Quest for the Late Romantic: Ford Madox Ford on Dante Gabriel Rossetti”, Ford Madox Ford and the Republic of Letters, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, The British Council, Associazione Italo Britannica, European Thematic Network Project Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA), The Ford Madox Ford Society, Bologna, 11-14 January 2001.
“La pedagogia del ‘giusto’ morire nelle utopie inglesi dell’Ottocento: The Fixed Period di Anthony Trollope”, Perfezione e finitudine. La concezione della morte nell’utopia in età moderna e contemporanea, Fondazione Ariodante Fabretti, Università di Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, Università di Torino, Dipartimento di Storia, Archivio di Stato, Turin, 28-29 September 2001.
2002
“Dialectics between Energy and Idleness in Morris’s Aesthetic Utopia: News from Nowhere (1890)”, seminar On Utopia, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Porto, 22-25 March 2002.
“The Ideal City in Italy during the Renaissance between Architectural and Utopian projects”, seminar On Utopia, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Porto, 22-25 March 2002.
“The Revival of the Past and the Tension towards the Future in the 19th-century Urban Utopian Imagery”, Le Corti e la Città Ideale / Courts and the Ideal City, Università di Urbino, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Urbino, 15-17 November 2002.
2003
“Figuring the Otherworldly. Late Victorian Visions of Shakespeare’s Fairy Lore”, Metamorphosing Shakespeare. Mutual Illuminations of the Arts, Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Ferrara, 14-16 March 2003.
“The Controversial Concept of Communitarian Art in William Morris’s Utopian Society”, The 4th Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Universidad Europea de Madrid-CEES, Madrid, 25-29 June 2003.
“Ekphrasis as Portraiture: A. S. Byatt’s Doppelgänger”, Writing and Seeing, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Letras, Porto, 23-25 October 2003.
2004
“What is IN Ekphrasis. Paintings for Description in Post-modern Prose”, La letteratura e le altre arti, the annual conference of the Associazione per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura, Universita dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, 12-13 February 2004.
2005
“Gulfs of Time, Ties with the Past: Uchronia Re-Conceptualised”, Memory and Forgetfulness. Conception, Reception, Interception, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, 20-21 January 2005.
“In Vasto and in London: the Rossettis’ Houses as Mirrors of Dislocated National Identities”, Writers’ Houses and the Construction of (Trans) National Cultural Memory, European Thematic Network Project ACUME. Cultural Memory in European Countries, Reale Istituto Neerlandese, Rome, 11-15 May 2005.
“William Morris on Utopia and Romance”, Visualizing Utopia, workshop, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 25-27 May 2005.
“Stoicism among the Victorians? The Legacy of Old Norse Sagas in William Morris’s Utopian Views of Humankind”, The Cultural Reconstruction of Places, European Thematic Network Project ACUME. Cultural Memory in European Countries and Háskóla Íslands, Reykjavik, 24-26 June 2005.
“Primitive, Primeval. The Pre-Raphaelites’ Search for the Origins of Art”, Il primitivismo e le sue metamorfosi. Archeologia di un discorso culturale, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Bologna, 17-19 November 2005.
“L’epoca vittoriana nella prospettiva dell’estetica interartistica”, I Vittoriani, l’estetica e la letteratura, panel, Università di Milano, Dipartimento di Scienze del Linguaggio e Letterature Straniere Comparate, Milan, 25 November 2005.
2006
“Insularity and Utopianism”, Island and the Cultural Maps, European Thematic Network Project ACUME. Cultural Memory in European Countries and Universidade de Madeira, Madeira, 28-29 September 2006.
“Re-Shaping Stilnovo for the Victorians: Dante Gabriel Rossetti as Translator and Illustrator of Dante’s Vita Nuova”, Research Seminar on Illustration, University of Cardiff, CEIR. Centre for Intertextual and Editorial Research, Cardiff, 24 October 2006.
“Interarts and Illustration: Re-Viewing Some Theoretical and Methodological Approaches”, Research Seminar on Illustration, University of Cardiff, CEIR. Centre for Intertextual and Editorial Research, Cardiff, 31 October 2006.
“Cognition, Representation, Representability”, “Envisioning Race”, “In Search of the Archetypal”, research projects presented at the General Brainstorming of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Villa Vigoni, Lovenio Menaggio (Como), 25-28 November 2006.
2007
“Cultural Representations of Science and Technology”, research project of sub-project 2, I General Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Università di Bologna, Bertinoro (Forlì - Cesena), 16-18 March 2007.
“Rendering Visual Perception: Interart Dynamics in Victorian Photography, Painting, and Literature”, Pictures of Modernity, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Europei e Postcoloniali, Venice, 10-11 May 2007.
“L’individuo e la collettività nella letteratura utopica”, launch of La società degli individui magazine, editor Ferruccio Andolfi: L’Utopia (I), n. 26, 2006/2 and L’Utopia (II), n. 27, 2006/3, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, Bologna, 21 May 2007.
“Formare e trasformare l’umano: l’interpretazione delle teorie evoluzionistiche nelle utopie e distopie vittoriane”, Scienza e tecnica in utopia, Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di Storia, Florence, 22-23 May 2007.
“Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities”, research project presented at the Brainstorming Meeting on Origins, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Bologna, 15 June 2007.
“Envisioning Race”, research project presented at the Brainstorming Meeting on Race, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne, Bologna, 26 June 2007.
“Tropes of Science. Theorizing/Representing Evolution in A. S. Byatt’s Morpho Eugenia and Richard Dawkins’s The Blind Watchmaker”, Narrativity, Temporality and Discourse at the Interface, workshop, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 29 June 2007.
“Travelling Concepts”, research project presented at the Brainstorming Meeting on Travelling Concepts, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Bologna, 14 July 2007.
“Posthumans in Science Fiction, Cinema, and Cultural Discourse”, Human and Post-Human: Cultural Origins and Futures, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, King’s College, London, 29-30 September 2007.
“More [than] Human. The Debate on Post-Humanity at the Intersection of Scientific Thought, Technological Experimentation, and Literary Vision”, ACT 18 - Utopia e Ciência, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Centro de Estudos Comparatistas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, 26-27 November 2007.
“Source, Beginning, Creation and Authenticity. Polysemous Origins of Art”, Decoding the Origins, workshop, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and University of Warwick, Coventry, 10-11 December 2007.
“The Quest for Verbal/Visual Cosmos in William Morris’s Calligraphy & Typography”, Subjective Objects. The Aesthetics of the Object in Symbolist Art and Writing, University of Oxford, Kellogg College, Department for Continuing Education, Oxford, 14-15 December 2007.
2008
Presentation of the scientific activity of sub-project 2, I Steering Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Bologna, 10-11 January 2008.
“Searching for Interfaced Methodological Approaches to the Origin of Art”, Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and the Humanities, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, 12-13 May 2008.
“Tropes of Science”, panel on Science and the General Public and participation in the II General Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Rimini, 16-17 May 2008.
“Metaphors in Literature and Science”, The Case and the Canon, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Urbino, Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Urbino, 26-28 June 2008.
“Beyond Humanistic Approaches to Art and its Origins”, panel on How Do Science and Art Interact?, European Science Forum, Palacio de Congresos de Barcelona, Montjuïc, Barcelona, 19 July 2008.
“‘Preposterous thicks and thins’”: Bodoni e la discrasia fra forma e significato nell’interpretazione di William Morris”, Bodoni e le avanguardie. Le Corbusier, il Bauhaus e la grafica del Novecento, Museo Bodoniano, Parma, 10 October 2008.
“Travelling Concepts”, research project presented at the II Brainstorming Meeting on Travelling Concepts, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Patologia Sperimentale, Bologna, 31 October - 1 November 2008.
Presentation of the scientific activities of sub-project 2, II Steering Meeting of the European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities, Istituto Universitario Suor Orsola Benincasa, Naples, 5-6 December 2008.
2009
“Il senso critico di Ouida”, Ouida. il canone letterario e la cultura tardo-vittoriana, seminar, CUSVE, Centro Universitario per gli Studi Vittoriani ed Edoardiani, Università ‘G. D’Annunzio’ Chieti e Pescara, Pescara, 22 January 2009.
“La letteratura utopica dentro e oltre le nazioni”, Utopia e utopismo in scienza e letteratura and launch of Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi, Paris, Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008, Gabinetto Vieusseux, Florence, 16 February 2009.
“A Londra, da Vasto. Le dimore reali ed estetiche dei Rossetti”, Giovedì Rossettiani, Centro Europeo di Studi Rossettiani, Palazzo D’Avalos, Vasto, 19 March 2009.
“Organisms as Bioengineered Works of Art. Or, the Bold Dialogue between Artists and Bioscientists”, Body Work, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Syddansk Universitet, Odense, 30-31 May 2009.
“The Topos of Ragnarök in the Utopian Thought of William Morris”, Eddic Gods and Heroes. The Milieux and Media of their Reception, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, 25-27 June 2009.
“I sensi, l’immaginazione, il giudizio: il gusto nell’estetica di Edmund Burke”, L’infinita varietà del gusto. Filosofia, arte e storia di un’idea dal Medioevo all’età moderna, Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche e Dipartimento di Scienze Umane, Ferrara, 27-28 November 2009.
“Critica d’arte e memoria culturale nell’Italia di William Michael Rossetti”, I Rossetti e l’Italia, Centro Europeo di Studi Rossettiani and Università ‘G. D’Annunzio’ Chieti e Pescara, Palazzo D’Avalos, Vasto, 10-12 December 2009.
2010
“Cimabue and Giotto, Guinizelli, Cavalcanti and Dante: D. G. Rossetti’s Verbal/Visual Personae”, Meaning in Literary Illustration, Agder University, Kristiansand, 24-25 September 2010.
“Trans-cultural Images of Fairy Lore, from Gothic to Art Nouveau: Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm, Translated from German by Lucy Crane and Done into Pictures by Walter Crane (1886)”, Imago et Translatio. Illustration et Traduction au XIXe siècle en Europe, Centre de Recherche sur la Littérature française du XIXe siècle - Université Paris-Sorbonne and Centre Interdisciplinaire sur les Modèles Esthétiques et Littéraires - Université de Reims-Champagne Ardennes, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, 3-4 December 2010.
“Engineering Organisms into Art: the Aesthetic Élan of the Biosciences”, keynote speech, The Human and its Limits, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, 9-10 December 2010.
2011
“‘Some strange second flowering after date’: la poesia estetica di Dante Gabriel Rossetti e William Morris in Appreciations (1889) di W. Pater”, Walter Pater. Poetiche interartistiche e interculturali nell’Estetismo, Università Ca’ Foscari e Università IUAV, Venezia, 1-2 March 2011.
“Scientists as Narrators. Epistemology and Aesthetics in Contemporary British Science Writing”, British Society for Literature and Science Annual Conference 2011, Pitt Building, Cambridge, 9 April 2011.
“Representing and Narrativizing Science”, keynote speech, Literature and Chemistry. Elective Affinities, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, 29-30 October 2011.
2012
“Con stupore forestiero. Il Tempio Malatestiano e i viaggiatori europei fra Ottocento e Novecento”, keynote speech, Festival del Mondo Antico, Museo della Città, Rimini, 22 June 2012.
“Narrativization and Public Understanding of Science: A Mutually Beneficial Liaison?”, International Workshop SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science funded by the Research Council of Norway, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 21-22 September 2012.
“Il dialogo platonico nell’Inghilterra dell’Ottocento”, Generi letterari e performance. La tradizione dell’oralità, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 8 October 2012.
“Sustainability and the Humanities”, research project presented at the conference on Sustainability, Research and Teaching after Rio. Challenges for the Future promoted by the International Network Routes towards Sustainability, Università di Ferrara, 30 October 2012.
“Myths in Science”, II International Workshop SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science funded by the Research Council of Norway, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, 6-7 December 2012.
“Juvenile, Lasting Thoughts towards Poetry, Literature, and Art”, presentation of The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012) by Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 12 December 2012. With John Robert Holmes (University of Reading).
2013
“Prefigurare, avverare, trasformare: la città utopica come luogo progettuale e reale”, seminar, I part “La città ideale nel Rinascimento e in epoca vittoriana (1837-1901)”; II part “La città ideale nelle avanguardie e nella narrativa contemporanea”, Master in Eco-Polis. Smart City, Urban Creativity and Collaborative Local Development, Università di Ferrara, 9-10 April 2013.
“Topoi mitici nella narrazione della scienza”, Department Lecture IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 8 May 2013.
“Critical Aesthetic Prose in The Germ as the Foundation of William Michael Rossetti’s and Frederic George Stephens’s Art Criticism”, Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future, Brookes University, Ashmolean Museum and St John’s College, Oxford, 13-14 September 2013.
“Racconti di viaggio britannici e angloamericani”, Il Tempio Malatestiano oltre l’Italia. Scritti forestieri fra Ottocento e Novecento, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, 18 October 2013.
“Rappresentare e narrare le scienze”, Interculturalità nelle discipline scientifiche e umanistiche, IUSS Colloquia, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 24 October 2013.
2014
“Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body”, Seminar for the MSc in Medical Humanities coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, King’s College, London, 23 and 30 January 2014.
“Towards a Redefinition of Literary and Scientific Writing”, Lecture for the Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Linguistiche e Letterarie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Milan, 18 March 2014.
“Museums as Sites of Cultural Memory”, International Symposium Cultures of Sustainability in the Age of Climate Crisis promoted by COST Action IS1007: Investigating Cultural Sustainability, University of Telemark, Bø, Norway, 13-15 May 2014.
“Narratives and Portraits of Sustainable Ageing”, International Workshop Histories, Mythologies and Taboos of Ageing, Universitetet i Bergen, Bergen, 4-5 June 2014.
“(Un)Sustainable Societies in Utopia, Dystopia and Steampunk Fiction”, International Symposium Routing Sustainable Development towards a Culture of Wellbeing promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, University of Ferrara, 1-2 October 2014.
2015
“Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body”, Seminar for the MSc in Medical Humanities coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, King’s College, London, 5 and 12 February 2015.
“Apocalypse and Palingenesis in British Literature from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the Contemporary Age”, Lecture for the Scuola di Dottorato in Scienze Linguistiche e Letterarie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano, Milan, 19 March 2015.
“Società (in)sostenibili in utopia, distopia e nella narrativa steampunk”, Lecture for U-TOPOS – Centro de Estudos sobre Utopias da Unicamp, Departamento de Teoria Literária, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem, UNICAMP - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 18 September 2015.
“(Un)sustainable Societies in Utopia, Dystopia and Steampunk Fiction”, International Symposium Routes towards Sustainability Cidades, Saude e Bem-estar Cities, Health and Wellness promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Monday 28 September - Friday 2 October 2015.
“In a Prescient Mode. Apocalypse and Palingenesis in Contemporary British Novels”, TransLiterations. Contemporary Writing from Other Literatures, Languages and Media, International Conference, University of Ferrara, Department of Humanistic Studies, Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 November 2015.
“Hungry and Angry: Narrating Cities of Prey”, The City that Adapts. Interviewing Societies, Cultures and the Built Environment, International Seminar promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, IUSS - Ferrara 1391, 4 December 2015.
2016
“Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body”, Seminar for the MSc in Medical Humanities coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, King’s College, London, 4 and 11 February 2016.
V. PUBLICATIONS
V.1. BOOKS
1. Sopra il reale. Osmosi interartistiche nel Preraffaellitismo e nel Simbolismo inglese (Firenze: Alinea, 2005), 403 p.
2. The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), 284 p. With E. Bizzotto.
V.2. EDITED BOOKS AND JOURNALS
1. Dictionary of Literary Utopias, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (Paris: Champion, 2000), 732 p. Assistant Editor and member of the Scientific Committee.
2. Vite di Utopia, volume IX of Forme dell’Utopia, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Paola Spinozzi (Ravenna: Longo, 2000), 335 p.
3. Utopianism / Literary Utopias and National Cultural Identities: a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Paola Spinozzi (Bologna: Compositori, 2001), 393 p.
4. Perfezione e finitudine. La concezione della morte nell’utopia in età moderna e contemporanea, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Marina Sozzi, Paola Spinozzi (Torino: Lindau, 2004), 282 p.
5. The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art, ed., with an Introduction, by Elisa Bizzotto and Paola Spinozzi (Trento: Editrice Università di Trento, Collana Reperti, 2008), 192 p.
6. Histoire Transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), 1359 p.
7. Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Alessandro Zironi (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010), 290 p.
8. Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Brian Hurwitz (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011), 299 p.
9. Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture, vol. 23, no. 45 (September 2013), Memory, Conflict & Commerce in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Martin Procházka, Paola Spinozzi and Rui Carvalho Homem, 130 pp.
V.3. INTRODUCTIONS
1. “Introduzione” to Perfezione e finitudine. La concezione della morte nell’utopia in età moderna e contemporanea, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Marina Sozzi, Paola Spinozzi (Torino: Lindau, 2004), pp. 5-28. With V. Fortunati and M. Sozzi.
2. “Introduzione” to The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art, ed., with an Introduction, by Elisa Bizzotto and Paola Spinozzi (Trento: Editrice Università di Trento, Collana Reperti, 2008), pp. XI-XLI. With E. Bizzotto.
3. “Introduction” to Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), pp. 19-30. With V. Fortunati and R. Trousson.
4. “Introduction” to Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Alessandro Zironi (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010), pp. 11-21. With A. Zironi.
5. “Science, Discoursivity, and Narrativity”, in Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Brian Hurwitz (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011), pp. 13-30. With B. Hurwitz.
6. “Memory, Conflict & Commerce in Early Modern Europe: An Introduction”, Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture, vol. 23, no. 45 (September 2013), Memory, Conflict & Commerce in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Martin Procházka, Paola Spinozzi and Rui Carvalho Homem, pp. 1-5. With Martin Procházka and Rui Carvalho Homem.
V.4. ESSAYS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
1997
1. “Metamorfosi interartistiche nei poemi iconici di William Morris”, Il Lettore di provincia. Testi ricerche critica, anno XXVIII, n. 98 (Ravenna: Longo, 1997), pp. 55-80.
1998
2. “Figurazioni del passato nella saggistica di William Morris: la storia dell’Inghilterra pre-industriale, un ‘discorso’ sul socialismo”, in Pellegrini della Speranza. William Morris cent’anni dopo. Edvige Schulte un anno dopo, ed. by Adriana Corrado (Napoli: Cuen, 1998), pp. 231-253.
1999
3. “As Yet Untitled. by A Sonnet by Walter Crane for a Painting by G. F. Watts: Ekphrasis as Nomination”, Textus, XII, 1 (1999), Literature and the Arts, ed. by Stephen Bann and Vita Fortunati, pp. 113-134.
2000
4. Entries for the Dictionary of Literary Utopias, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (Paris: Champion, 2000):
Across the Zodiac (1880) by Percy Greg, pp. 24-26;
Etymonia (1875), anonymous, p. 211;
James Ingleton: The History of a Social State. A.D. 2000. “By Mr. Dick” (1893), p. 324;
Lord of the World (1907) by Robert Hugh Benson, p. 365;
The Lost Children (1931) by Herman H. Chilton, pp. 365-366;
Meda. A Tale of the Future. As Related by Kenneth Folingsby (1891), anonymous, pp. 386-387;
Three Hundred Years Hence (1881) di William Delisle Hay, p. 602.
5. “‘And in the Dark House Was I Loved’: William Morris and Kelmscott Manor”, in Vite d’Utopia, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Paola Spinozzi (Ravenna: Longo, 2000), pp. 167-177.
2001
6. “Dis/Locating the British Empire in Samuel Butler’s Erewhon”, in Utopianism / Literary Utopias and National Cultural Identities: a Comparative Perspective, ed. by Paola Spinozzi (Bologna: Compositori, 2001), pp. 149-162.
2002
7. “Sapere (è) rappresentare. Evoluzioni della conoscenza in Morpho Eugenia di A. S. Byatt”, in Le riscritture del postmoderno. Percorsi angloamericani, ed. by Ornella De Zordo and Fiorenzo Fantaccini (Bari: Palomar athenaeum, 2002), pp. 355-388.
8. “A Proto-Modernist Artist-Critic Encounters a Victorian Painter-Poet: Ford Madox Ford on Dante Gabriel Rossetti”, in Ford Madox Ford and the Republic of Letters, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Elena Lamberti (Bologna: Clueb, 2002), pp. 80-95.
2003
9. “Dialectics between Labour and Rest in Morris’s Utopia: News from Nowhere (1890)”, with Vita Fortunati, Utopias. Cadernos de Literatura Comparada, 6/7 Dezembro 2003), Org. Fátima Vieira e Jorge Miguel Bastos da Silva (Porto: Granito Editores e Livreiros, 2003), pp. 119-137.
10. “Made of Metonymy. Beguiling of the Female Body in Pre-Raphaelitism”, in The Controversial Women’s Body: Images and Representations in Literature and Art, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Anna Maria Lamarra, Eleonora Federici (Bologna: Bononia University Press, 2003), pp. 45-69.
11. “Arte ed estetica in utopia”, in Dall’utopia all’utopismo. Percorsi tematici, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Raymond Trousson, Adriana Corrado, Introduction by Francesco De Sanctis (Napoli: CUEN, 2003), pp. 385-404.
2004
12. “The Fixed Period di Anthony Trollope e la pedagogia del ‘giusto’ morire nelle utopie della seconda metà dell’Ottocento inglese”, in Perfezione e finitudine. La concezione della morte nell’utopia in età moderna e contemporanea, ed. by Vita Fortunati, Marina Sozzi, Paola Spinozzi (Torino: Lindau, 2004), pp. 227-254.
13. “The Revival of the Past and the Tension towards the Future in the Urban Imagery of Victorian Utopias”, in Le Corti e la Città Ideale / Courts and the Ideal City, ed. by Gabriella Morisco and Alessandra Calanchi (Bari: Schena, 2004), pp. 119-145.
14. “Figuring the Otherworldly. Late Victorian Visions of Shakespeare’s Fairy Lore”, in Metamorphosing Shakespeare. Mutual Illuminations of the Arts, ed. by Mariangela Tempera and Patricia Kennan (Bologna: Clueb, 2004), pp. 93-108.
2005
15. “Art and Aesthetics in Utopia: William Morris’s Response to the Challenge of the ‘Art of the People’”, in Utopia Matters. Theory, Politics, Literature and the Arts, ed. by Fátima Vieira and Marinela Freitas (Porto: Universidade do Porto, 2005), vol. 1, pp. 229-235.
16. “Gulfs of Time, Ties with the Past: Uchronia Re-Conceptualised”, Dedalus. Revista Portuguesa de Literatura Comparada, issue devoted to Memory and Forgetfulness. Conception, Reception, Interception, n. 10 (Chamusca: Edições Cosmos, 2005), pp. 111-121.
2006
17. “Ekphrasis as Portrait: A. S. Byatt’s Fictional and Visual Doppelgänger”, in Writing and Seeing. Essays on Word and Image, ed. by Rui Carvalho Homem and Maria de Fátima Lambert (Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, IFAVL - Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 2006), pp. 223-231.
18. “Stoicism among the Victorians? The Legacy of Old Norse Sagas in William Morris’s Utopian Views of Humanity”, in The Cultural Reconstruction of Places, ed. by Ástráður Eysteinsson (Reykjavik: University of Iceland Press, 2006), pp. 186-199.
2007
19. “Primitivo, primigenio. La ricerca dell’‘autenticità’ nell’estetica preraffaellita”, in Il primitivismo e le sue metamorfosi. Archeologia di un discorso culturale, a cura di Gilberta Golinelli (Bologna: Clueb, 2007), pp. 289-305.
20. “Interarts and Illustration: Some Historical Antecedents, Theoretical Issues, and Methodological Orientations”, JOIS. Journal of Illustration Studies (December 2007), http://www.jois.cf.ac.uk/articles.php?article=43.
21. “In Vasto and in London: the Rossettis’ Houses as Mirrors of Dislocated National Identities”, in Writers’ Houses and the Making of Memory, ed. by Harald Hendrix (New York and London: Routledge, 2007), pp. 149-162.
2008
22. “Looking Backward”, in Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), pp. 661-675.
23. “Impérialisme, racisme, evolutionnisme: la dérive de l’utopisme dans la littérature victorienne”, in Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), pp. 785-807.
24. “Art et utopie au 19ème siècle”, in Histoire transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), pp. 809-818.
25. “Arts of Representation: Interart Dynamics in Victorian Photography, Painting, and Literature”, in Pictures of Modernity. The Visual and the Literary in England, 1850-1930, ed. by Loretta Innocenti, Franco Marucci, Enrica Villari (Venezia: Cafoscarina, collana Le Bricole, 2008), pp. 59-71.
2009
26. “Journeying through Translation: Dante among the Victorians, Dante Gabriel Rossetti in Medieval Italy”, in Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by Francesca Orestano and Francesca Frigerio (Bern - Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 77-96.
27. “The Quest for Verbal/Visual Cosmos in William Morris’s Calligraphy and Typography”, in Symbolist Objects: Materiality and Subjectivity at the Fin de Siècle, ed. by Claire I. R. O’Mahony (High Wycombe: Rivendale Press, 2009), pp. 109-142.
28. “More [than] Human. The Debate on Post-Humanity at the Intersection of Scientific Thought, Technological Experimentation and Literary Vision”, Act. 18, Alteridades, Cruzamentos, Transferências, volume dedicated to Utopia e Ciência, ed. by Lourdes Câncio Martins (Ribeirão: Edições Húmus, 2009), pp. 155-166.
29. “Anti-pittorialismo sublime e ragione etica: la dialettica del gusto nella Inquiry di Edmund Burke”, I Castelli di Yale. Quaderni di Filosofia, vol. X, no. 10 (2009), pp. 91-101.
2010
30. “The Origin of Art: Towards Humanistic-Scientific Theories and Methodologies”, in Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Alessandro Zironi (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2010), pp. 59-80.
31. “Critica d’arte e memoria culturale nell’Italia di William Michael Rossetti”, in I Rossetti e l’Italia, a cura di Gianni Oliva e Mirko Menna (Lanciano: Carabba, 2010), pp. 381-405.
2011
32. “Representing and Narrativizing Science”, in Discourses and Narrations in the Biosciences, ed. by Paola Spinozzi and Brian Hurwitz (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2011), pp. 31-60.
33. “Contro Bodoni, prima delle avanguardie: l’arte tipografica di William Morris fra intermedialità e teoria sociale”, Crisopoli. Bollettino del Museo Bodoniano di Parma, no. 13, 2007/2010 [Nuova Serie I], pp. 53-63.
34. “The Topos of Ragnarök in the Utopian Thought of William Morris”, in Eddische Götter und Helden. Milieus und Medien ihrer Rezeption / Eddic Gods and Heroes. The Milieux and Media of Their Reception, ed. by Katja Schulz (Heidelberg: Winter, 2011), pp. 187-198.
35. “Engineering Organisms into Art: the Aesthetic Élan of the Biosciences”, in The Human and its Limits, ed. by Margareth Hagen, Randi Koppen, and Margery Vibe Skagen (Olso: Scandinavian Academic Press - Spartacus Forlag: 2011), pp. 77-93.
2013
36. “Utopia, The City of the Sun and New Atlantis as Manifestos of Utopian Ideals in the European Renaissance”, Litteraria Pragensia. Studies in Literature and Culture, vol. 23, no. 45 (September 2013) Memory, Conflict & Commerce in Early Modern Europe, ed. by Martin Procházka, Paola Spinozzi and Rui Carvalho Homem, pp. 6-25.
2014
37. “Accurate Reproduction, Ingenious Representation: Lucy and Walter Crane’s Household Stories, from the Collection of the Bros. Grimm (1882)”, WORD & IMAGE. A Journal of Verbal/Visual Enquiry, vol. 30, no. 4 (2014), pp. 261-272.
2015
38. “‘Preposterous thicks and thins’: i libri ideali di William Morris fra intermedialità e teoria sociale”, L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, vol. XXIII, no. 2 (2015), pp. 285-296.
V.5. REVIEWS
“Storia della letteratura inglese di Franco Marucci, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2006. Volume IV: dal 1870 al 1920”, Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate, vol. 60, no. 4 (2008), pp. 527-530.
“Victorian Disharmonies. A Reconsideration of Nineteenth-Century English Fiction di Francesco Marroni, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2010, Il confronto letterario. Quaderni di letterature straniere moderne e comparate dell’Università di Pavia, vol. 54 (2011), pp. 402-406.
V.6. EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
2000
Assistant Editor and member of the scientific committee of Dictionary of Literary Utopias, ed. by Vita Fortunati and Raymond Trousson (Paris: Champion, 2000), 732 p.
2008
Editor and member of the scientific committee of Histoire Transnationale de l’utopie littéraire et de l’utopisme, coordonnée par Vita Fortunati et Raymond Trousson, avec la collaboration de Paola Spinozzi (Paris: Champion, Bibliothèque de Littérature générale et comparée, 2008), 1359 p.
2010-
Member of the scientific committee of the book series Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht), http://www.v-r.de/en/seriesdetail-0-0/interfacing_science_literature_and_the_humanities-3069/.
VI. COORDINATOR OF SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS
VI.1. CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
2000
Utopianism / Literary Utopias and National Cultural Identities: a Comparative Perspective, conference, European Thematic Nework Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA), Rimini, 5-9 July 2000. Scientific coordinator with Vita Fortunati.
2003
Metamorphosing Shakespeare. Mutual Illuminations of the Arts, conference, Università di Ferrara, 14-16 March 2003. Scientific coordinator with Mariangela Tempera.
2007
Human and Post-Human: Cultural Origins and Futures, conference, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and King’s College, London, 29-30 September 2007. Scientific coordinator with Max Saunders and Brian Hurwitz.
Narrativity, Temporality and Discourse at the Interface, workshop, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris, 29 June 2007. Scientific coordinator with Irène Bessière.
Decoding the Origins, workshop, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and University of Warwick, Coventry, 10-11 December 2007. Scientific coordinator with Alessandro Zironi and Susan Bassnett.
2008
Origins as a Paradigm in the Sciences and in the Humanities, conference, European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and Humanities and Università di Ferrara, Biblioteca Comunale Ariostea, Ferrara, 12-13 May 2008. Scientific coordinator with Alessandro Zironi.
L’origine, il fine. Le arti e la cultura vittoriana attraverso lo sguardo dei Preraffaelliti, presentation of The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art, a cura, e con introduzione, di Elisa Bizzotto e Paola Spinozzi (Trento: Editrice Università di Trento, Collana Reperti, 2008), Biblioteca Ariostea, Ferrara, 2 December 2008. Scientific coordinator.
2012
International Workshop SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science funded by the Research Council of Norway, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 21-22 September 2012. Scientific coordinator.
“Juvenile, Lasting Thoughts towards Poetry, Literature, and Art”, presentation of The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012) by Paola Spinozzi and Elisa Bizzotto, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 12 December 2012. With John Robert Holmes (University of Reading). Scientific coordinator.
2013
Il Tempio Malatestiano oltre l’Italia. Racconti forestieri fra Ottocento e Novecento, series of 4 conferences with 16 scholars, promoted by the Assessorato alla Cultura di Rimini and Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Rimini, Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, 18 October - 29 November 2013. Scientific coordinator.
Interculturalità nelle discipline scientifiche e umanistiche, 8 Interdepartmental Colloquia aimed for PhD students and involving 24 scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, October 2013 - March 2014. Scientific coordinator.
2014
General Meeting of the International University Network Routes towards Sustainability, University of Ferrara, Department of Economics and Management, 30 September 2014. Scientific coordinator with Gianfranco Franz.
Routing Sustainable Development towards a Culture of Wellbeing, International Symposium promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, University of Ferrara, Department of Architecture, 1-2 October 2014. Scientific coordinator.
INTRA/INTER: The Cores of Scientific and Humanistic Disciplines, 7 Interdepartmental Colloquia aimed for PhD students and involving 24 scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, December 2014 - March 2015. Scientific coordinator.
2015
Cidades, Saude e Bem-estar Cities, Health and Wellness, International Symposium promoted by the University Network Routes towards Sustainability, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, 28 September - 2 October 2015. Scientific coordinator with Gianfranco Franz.
TransLiterations. Contemporary Writing from Other Literatures, Languages and Media, International Conference, University of Ferrara, Department of Humanistic Studies, 26-28 November 2015. Scientific coordinator.
The City that Adapts. Interviewing Societies, Cultures and the Built Environment, International Seminar of Routes towards Sustainability, IUSS - Ferrara 1391, 4 December 2015. Scientific Coordinator with Gianfranco Franz.
VI.2. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
1997 - 1999
CNR (National Council for Research) funded research programme Il corpo e la mente nella letteratura utopica europea e nordamericana [Body and Mind in European and North-American Utopian Literature].
1999
CNR (National Council for Research) funded research programme Storia e biografia nel paradigma utopico [History and Biography in the Utopian Paradigm].
2000 - 2001
CNR (National Council for Research) funded research programme Utopia e identità nazionale: una prospettiva comparata [Utopia and National Identity: a Comparative Perspective].
1998 - 2002
European Thematic Network Project Comparative Studies. Theory and Practice (COTEPRA), 55845-CP-2-99-1-ET-ERASMUS-ETN.
Participation in subproject 1, Comparative Literature: Theory, Praxis, Methodology.
Participation in subproject 6, A Comparison between National Cultural Identities and Literary Utopias: a Challenging Perspective.
2003 - 2006
European Thematic Network Project ACUME. Cultural Memory in European Countries. An Interdisciplinary Approach, 104329-CP-1-2002-1-IT-ERASMUS-TN.
Participation in subproject 3, Landscape and Places.
Participation in sub-project 4, Oral and Written History.
2005
Universutopia, Programme Cadre Culture 2000.
European research programme on real and virtual utopian places, http://www.universutopia.net/. Partner institutions: CYPRES - Centre Interculturel de Pratiques et Echanges Transdisciplinaires (Marseille, France), La Saline Royale (Arc-et-Senans, France), Familistère Godin (Guise, France), Mundaneum (Mons, Belgium), CIANT - International Centre for Art and New Technologies (Prague, Czech Republic), Architect Alok Nandi, CIRU - Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca dell’Utopia dell’Università di Bologna.
8 October - 3 November 2006
Visiting Fellowship. Research project: Interarts and Illustration: Theoretical and Methodological Issues. Fellowship funded by the School of English, Communication and Philosophy (ENCAP), University of Cardiff.
1 November 2006 - 31 September 2009
European Thematic Network Project Interfacing Sciences, Literature and the Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Approach, http://acume2.web.cs.unibo.it/
Scientific co-coordinator of sub-project 2, Cultural Representations of Science and Technology.
Participation in sub-projects 1, Theoretical Approaches.
Participation in sub-project 3, Scientific Myth-making: Life-Writing, Travel-Writing, Memoirs.
January - December 2012
SAMKUL project SciLiterature, 218420, http://www.forskningsradet.no/prognett-samkul/Home_page/1253964329585, 2012.
Scientific coordinator of SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science, International workshop, Ferrara, 21-22 September 2012 and presentation of the paper “Narrativization and Public Understanding of Science: A Mutually Beneficial Liaison?”. Participation in SciLiterature: Narrativizing Science, International seminar, Universitetet i Bergen, 6-7 December 2012 and presentation of the paper “Myths in Science Narrativization”.
2014-
International University Network Routes towards Sustainability. Partner Universities: An-Najah National University (PNA), Humboldt Universität, Berlin (D), Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago (RCH), Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba (BR), South China University of Technology, Guangzhou (PRC), Universidad Católica de Cordoba (AR), Université Gaston Berger de Saint-Louis du Sénégal (SN), Università di Ferrara (IT), Uniwersytet Warszawski (PL), Waseda University, Tokyo (J). Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara with Gianfranco Franz.
May 2014-May 2015
COST Action IS1007: Investigating Cultural Sustainability, http://www.culturalsustainability.eu/, coordinated by Prof. Katriina Soini, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and comprising 88 members of 27 European countries. Member of the Action.
Since October 2014
Communication Strategies, Policies and Models of Behaviour as Agents/Vehicles of Sustainability, a research project selected and funded by the Committee for Internationalization, University of Ferrara. Research team: Massimiliano Mazzanti and Gianfranco Franz, Department of Economics and Management; Stefano Manfredini, Department of Life Sciences and Biotechnologies; Vincenzo Guidi, Department of Physics and Earth Sciences. Partner universities: Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil; An-Najah National University, Nablus, West Bank, Palestine; University of Hanoi, Vietnam. Scientific coordinator.
2015
La scrittura come lettura di altre scritture, a departmental research project selected and funded by the University of Ferrara. Research team: Matteo Galli and Monica Longobardi. Scientific co-coordinator with Isabella Mattazzi.
VI.3. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL TEACHING PROGRAMMES
22 March - 2 April 2004
Socrates Intensive Programme European Shakespeares: Towards an Integrated European Curriculum.
Host Institution: Università di Ferrara. Partner institutions: Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands). Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; plenary lectures on Shakespeare and the Arts and Victorian Shakespeare.
4 - 16 April 2005
Socrates Intensive Programme European Shakespeares: Towards an Integrated European Curriculum.
Host Institution: Università di Ferrara. Partner institutions: Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands). Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; plenary lectures on Illustrated Shakespeare and Painterly Representations of Shakespeare’s Fairy Lore.
27 March - 8 April 2006
Socrates Intensive Programme European Shakespeares: Towards an Integrated European Curriculum.
Host Institution: Università di Ferrara. Partner institutions: Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands). Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; plenary lecture on Re-Viewing Caliban’s Otherness.
7-19 April 2008
Socrates Intensive Programme Shakespeare and European Culture: Texts and Images Across Borders
Host Institution: Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic) and Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; seminars on Encountering the Victorians Encountering Shakespeare Encountering the Fantastic and the Supernatural; lecture on Victorian Visual Transpositions of Shakespeare’s Fairy Lore.
23 March - 4 April 2009
Erasmus Intensive Programme Shakespeare and European Culture: Texts and Images Across Borders.
Host institution: Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic) and Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; seminars on Mythical Encounters. Shakespeare’s Appreciation of Ovid’s and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses; lecture on Encountering the Victorians Encountering Shakespeare Encountering the Fantastic and the Supernatural.
15-26 March 2010
Erasmus Intensive Programme Shakespeare and European Culture: Texts and Images Across Borders.
Host institution: Universidade do Porto (Portugal). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic) and Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; seminars on Mythical Encounters. Shakespeare’s Appreciation of Ovid’s and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses; lecture on Situating Mrs Shakespeare: Evidence, Stereotypes and New Hypotheses.
4-5 February 2011
Preparatory Meeting for the Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme Staging European Identities: Memory, Conflict and Commerce in Early Modern European Culture, Universiteit Utrecht.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara.
14-26 May 2013
Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme Staging European Identities: Memory, Conflict and Commerce in Early Modern European Culture. Host institution: Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III (France), Universytet Jagiellonski (Poland), Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; four-day seminar on “Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as the Prototype of a Transnational Literary Genre”; plenary lecture on “Ideal Conceptions of Society and Culture in Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Tommaso Campanella’s La Città del Sole (1602), and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627)”.
23 January - 30 February 2014
Erasmus Staff Mobility – Teaching Assignment.
Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body: seminar for the MSc course in Medical Humanities at King’s College, London, coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health.
Session 1 - The Early Modern Body: Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), William Hogarth’s The Reward of Cruelty, in The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751).
Session 2 - The Modern and Contemporary Body: William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1890), Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928), and contemporary bioart.
19-31 May 2014
Erasmus Lifelong Learning Programme Staging European Identities: Memory, Conflict and Commerce in Early Modern European Culture. Host institution: Univerzita Karlova v Praze (Czech Republic). Partner institutions: Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), Universiteit Utrecht (The Netherlands), Universidad de Murcia (Spain), Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Université Paul Valéry - Montpellier III (France), Universytet Jagiellonski (Poland), Università di Ferrara.
Scientific coordinator for the University of Ferrara; four-day seminar on “Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) as the Prototype of a Transnational Literary Genre”; plenary lecture on “Ideal Conceptions of Society and Culture in Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Tommaso Campanella’s La Città del Sole (1602), and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis (1627)”.
5 - 12 February 2015
Erasmus Staff Mobility – Teaching Assignment.
Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body: seminar for the MSc course in Medical Humanities at King’s College, London, coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health.
Session 1 - The Early Modern Body: Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), William Hogarth’s The Reward of Cruelty, in The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751).
Session 2 - The Modern and Contemporary Body: William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1890), Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928), and contemporary bioart.
10-18 April 2015
Visiting Professorship. MA course on Culture and Ideology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Escola de Educação e Humanidades.
4 - 11 February 2016
Erasmus Staff Mobility – Teaching Assignment.
Corporeal: Literary and Visual (De)formations of the Body: seminar for the MSc course in Medical Humanities at King’s College, London, coordinated by Prof. Brian Hurwitz, Director of the Centre for Humanities and Health.
Session 1 - The Early Modern Body: Thomas More’s Utopia (1516), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), William Hogarth’s The Reward of Cruelty, in The Four Stages of Cruelty (1751).
Session 2 - The Modern and Contemporary Body: William Morris’s News from Nowhere (1890), Virginia Woolf’s Orlando. A Biography (1928), and contemporary bioart.
VII. INTERNATIONALISATION
VII.1. INTERNATIONALISATION: RESEARCH
2014
Since January 2014 co-cordinator of the International University Network Routes towards Sustainability, http://www.unife.it/international/networks/routes-1/network, founded by the University of Ferrara and comprising universities from Europe: Germany Poland, France, Portugal, Serbia, United Kingdom; Africa: Senegal; Latin America: Chile, Brazil and Argentina; Asia: China, Japan and Vietnam. The aim of the Network is to enhance internationalisation in relation to paradigms and practices of sustainability in economic, environmental, political and cultural terms.
Scientific coordinator of Routing Sustainable Development towards a Culture of Wellbeing, International Symposium of Routes towards Sustainability, University of Ferrara, 1-2 October 2014. Sessions on: Human Development vis-à-vis Economic Dynamics; Habitat and Citizenship; Engineered Environment; Politics and Policies of Sustainability; Sustaining Cultures.
2015
Scientific co-coordinator of the International Symposium Cidades, Saude e Bem-estar Cities, Health and Wellness, International Symposium of Routes towards Sustainability, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Monday 28 September - Friday 2 October 2015. Sessions on: Theories and Practices of Sustainability; New Models of Spatial Planning; Session III – Mobility and Wellbeing; Eco-Efficiency and Alternative Energies; Climate Change, Resilience and Adaptability
Scientific co-coordinator of The City that Adapts. Interviewing Societies, Cultures and the Built Environment, International Seminar of Routes towards Sustainability, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 4 December 2015.
VII.2. INTERNATIONALISATION: TEACHING
2013-2014
Creation and coordination of a double degree diploma including the Laurea Magistrale in Lingue e Letterature straniere – classe LM37, University of Ferrara, and the Curso de Pós-Graduação / Especialização – Língua Inglesa: Metodologia do Ensino e Tradução, Escola de Educação e Humanidades, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR.
2014
Creation and coordination of an agreement between the University of Ferrara and the University of Hanoi, Vietnam. Students from the University of Hanoi can enrol at the University of Ferrara and attend BA and MA courses at the Department of Humanistic Studies and at the Department of Economics and Management. Students from the University of Ferrara can enrol at the University of Hanoi and attend BA and MA courses at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and at the Faculty of International Studies.
2015
Visiting Professorship. MA course on Culture and Ideology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - PUCPR, Escola de Educação e Humanidades.
VIII. RESEARCH CENTRES AND ASSOCIATIONS
Member of the Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull’Utopia, Università di Bologna.
Member of A.I.A. Associazione Italiana di Anglistica, http://www.anglisti.it/.
Member of BSLS. The British Society for Literature and Science, http://www.bsls.ac.uk/.
IX. TEACHING ACTIVITIES AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA
IX.1. BA AND MA COURSES
2000-2001
COMPARATIVE ARTS, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Interart Studies: On Theory and Methodology.
2001-2002
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Artists on Art. Meta-literary Discourses from the Renaissance to Modernism.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Writing of History. Historical Romance and Historical Novel in the Victorian Age.
2002-2003
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Romance: Genealogy and Mutations of a Literary Genre.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Impact of Scientific Discoveries on the Literary Imagery from 1600 to our Age.
2003-2004
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Ekphrasis and Iconic Poems in 19th- and 20th-century English Literature.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Utopia as a Literary Genre: Genealogy and Hybridisations.
2004-2005
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Past and Future in the Urban Imagery of Victorian Utopias.
2005-2006
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Pre-Raphaelitism and English Symbolism: Modes of Figuration between Literature and the Visual Arts.
2006-2007
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Enchantment of Imagination in Fantasy.
2007-2008
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
The Concept of Human. Representations of Humanity in Relation to Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Science, Technology and Literary Imagination.
2008-2009
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Mythical Encounters. Classical and Old Norse Mythology in British Culture between the Nineteenth and the Twentieth Century.
2009-2010
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Narrators and Scientists. Creative and Scientific Writing in British Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.
2010-2011
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Raccontare la scienza. La scrittura creativa e scientifica nella cultura britannica fra Ottocento e Novecento.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Riviste letterarie e manifesti estetici in Gran Bretagna fra il 1850 e il 1945.
2011-2012
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
What Genre? A Map of English Literature through Literary Genre.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Towards a Definition of the Epistemic Genre. Science in Literature.
2012-2013
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Why (English) Literature?.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
English Literature and the Canon.
2013-2014
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Critical and Creative Writing in English Literature.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Mythical and Biblical Topoi in British Scientific Fiction.
2014-2015
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
(Un)Sustainable Societies in Utopian, Scifi, Catastrophe and Steampunk Novels.
2015-2016
ENGLISH LITERATURE, BA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Apocalypse and Palingenesis in British Literature from the Early Modern to the Contemporary Age.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, MA Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures
British Literature, Comparative Literature, World Literature.
IX.2. PHD PROGRAMMES
2013-
Member of the PhD programme in the Humanities, DOT1309877. Scientific Coordinator: Carlo Peretto. Curricula: 1. Quaternary and Prehistory 2. Studies in Archaeology, Arts, Cinema, Heritage, History (Ancient to Contemporary) and Music 3. Studies in Philology, Linguistics, and Literatures 4. Studies in Philosophy, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology.
Interculturalità nelle discipline scientifiche e umanistiche, 8 Interdepartmental Colloquia aimed for PhD students and involving 24 scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, October 2013 - March 2014. Scientific coordinator.
INTRA/INTER: The Cores of Scientific and Humanistic Disciplines, 7 Interdepartmental Colloquia aimed for PhD students and involving 24 scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, December 2014 - March 2015. Scientific Coordinator.
COMMUNICATING SUSTAINABILITY. Strategies, Policies and Models of Behaviour, Intensive Programme for PhD students at the University of Ferrara and involving national and international scholars, IUSS Ferrara 1391 - University Institute for Higher Studies, Ferrara, 22-26 May 2016.
