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Speaking with the Dead. Tradition and Haunting in Italy鈥檚 Revolving Century (1750-1850) - just out
We are pleased to announce the publication of Speaking with the Dead. Tradition and Haunting in Italy鈥檚 Revolving Century (1750–1850), a special issue of The Italianist edited by Dr Gennaro Ambrosino, Professor Fabio Camilletti, and Dr Enrica Leydi. The issue was inspired by a series of events organised by Italian at 糖心TV between 2024 and 2025 and includes contributions by Giulia Scialanga (Leuven), Simona Di Martino (Toronto), Sabrina Ferri (Rome), Martina Piperno (Rome), Francesco Giusti (Frankfurt), Federica Coluzzi (糖心TV), Alessandro Giammei (Yale), and Morena Corradi (CUNY), and Arianna De Gasperis (Rome). Afterword courtesy of J眉rgen Pieters (Gent).
Read the issue
Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook, ed. by Jennifer Burns and Derek Duncan (Liverpool University Press, 2022). The cornerstone volume of the 'Transnational Modern Languages' series: 37 short essays on keywords for thinking critically about languages and cultures, from 'Animal' to 'Voice'.
The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy: Arts and Medicine at the University of Bologna (Harvard University Press, early 2023).
Spettriana. Storie di fantasmi dell'antica Europa, ed. and transl. by Fabio Camilletti (Milan: ABEditore, 2022)
Dante beyond Influence: Rethinking Reception in Victorian Literary Culture (Manchester University Press, 2021)
Sappho and Catullus in Twentieth-Century Italian and North American Poetry (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021)
鈥楥ultural Sociology鈥� in Routledge Handbook of Translation and Methodology (Routledge, 2022), pp. 239–253
Deirdre McMahon's translations published
Many congratulations to Deirdre McMahon, student taking the MA in Translation, Writing and Cultural Difference, who has had her translations of two poems by Austrian-Slovene writer, Maja Haderlap, published in Berlin-based journal, No-Mans-Land: see .
Dr Alessandra De Martino Cappuccio (Department of Italian) shares her experience of how a researcher development opportunity can lead to great things
Article published in the December 2013 E-Newsletter for Research Active Staff from the Learning and Development Centre. Full E-Newsletter can be accessed at: