Faculty Biographies
Federico Albano
Leoni
Professor
of Historical Linguistics. His major research interests are in the fields of
Germanic linguistics, the history of linguistics, and phonetics.
Member of the Società di Linguistica Italiana, the Associazione Italiana
di Acustica and the Acoustical Society of America. His main publications include
Concordanze belliane, 3 vols.,
Göteborg 1970-72 ("Romania Gothoburgensia" X:1-3); Il primo trattato
grammaticale islandese (Bologna, il Mulino 1975); Beiträge zur Deutung
der isländischen Esten grammatischen Abhandlung, "ANF" 92
(1977):70-91; Tre glossari longobardo-latini (Napoli, Giannini 1981);
Introduzione allo studio della
lingua tedesca (with E. Morlicchio - Bologna, il Mulino 1988);
Langobardisch, in Lexikon des
Mittelalters, V/8 (München u. Zürich, Artemis & Winkler 1991):1698-99;
The Beginnings of Phonology in Italy,
"HL2 XIX:2/3 (1992):301-316; Representation
of frequency variations in time in speech signals, (with F. Cotugno and P.
Maturi) in M. Cooke et al. (eds.), Visual
Representation of Speech Sounds (J. Wiley & Sons, Chicester - New York -
Brisbane - Toronto - Singapore 1993):125-130;
Manuale di fonetica (with P.
Maturi - Roma, NIS 1995); The Vowel System of Italian Connected Speech (with F. Cutugno and R.
Savy), in Proceedings of the XIII
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (Stockholm, KTH & Stockholm
University 1995), 4:396-99; Icelandic
Grammars, in H. Stammerjohann (ed.), Lexicon
Grammaticorum. Who's Who in the
History of World Linguistics (Tübingen, Niemeyer 1996:456-457); From Maine de Biran to the 'Motor Theory.' A Note in the History of Phonetics (with F.M. Dovetto),
"HL" XXIII: 3 (1996):347-364. Member of the Thematic Network on
"Speech Communication Sciences" funded by the EU SOCRATES/ERASMUS
programme.
Maria Rosaria
Alfani
Researcher
in Spanish. Her
main interest is Latin American literature prior to the nueva
novela, with particular reference to the writer Julio Ramón Ribeyro.
She has also studied modernist and avant-garde poetry (with particular
emphasis on Huidobro, Neruda, and Darío). Currently working on self-portraits
in Romantic poetry (Espronceda and Carolina Coronado), in contemporary narrative
(Millás) and in nineteenth century realism (Clarín and Galdós). Founder of
and the driving force behind the Cronopio publishing house. Member of the
academic board for the Master’s Degree course in Women’s Studies and of the
Sigismondo Malatesta Association of Comparative Literature.
Ulrike Bohmel Fichera
Researcher
at the University of Salerno from 1982 to 1984, she has been at the Federico II
University of Naples since 1984. Temporary Professor of German at the University
of Salerno from 1991 to 1998 and now Temporary Professor of German for students
of philosophy in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the Federico II
University of Naples.
She
has published numerous essays on the German literature of the exile (1933-45),
on the literature of the GDR, and on contemporary authors such as Anna Seghers,
Christoph Hein and Hilde Domin. Has also written essays on the culture and the
literature of eighteenth-century Germany, a volume on late eighteenth-century
literary reviews for women, and an essay on one of Chr. M. Wieland’s novels.
Francesco Paolo
Botti
Researcher
in Italian Studies. His
main areas of research are early nineteenth-century and twentieth-century
literary culture. Has published a
book on Leopardi (La nobiltà del poeta,
Napoli, Liguori 1979) as well as an essay
for the catalogue of the Leopardi exhibition organised by the Biblioteca
Nazionale of Naples (Giacomo Leopardi,
Napoli, Macchiaroli 1987). His
research on twentieth-century writers led to the publication of an essay on
Svevo’s later works (published in the collection Il
secondo Svevo, Napoli, Liguori 1982) and a book on C. E. Gadda entitled Gadda
o la filologia dell’apocalisse (Napoli, Liguori 1996).
Corrado Calenda
Researcher
and Temporary Professor of Dantean Philology.
Studied in Naples and wrote his graduation thesis under the supervision
of Professor Vittorio Russo. Has
taught and carried out research at the University of Reading (England) and at
Boston College (USA). Has
written essays for "Studi danteschi", "Strumenti critici",
"Filologia e critica", "Medioevo romanzo" and
"MLN". Publications
include Per altezza d’ingegno. Saggio
su Guido Cavalcanti (Napoli, Liguori 1976); Appartenenze metriche
ed esegesi (Dante, Cavalcanti, Guittone) (Napoli, Bibliopolis 1995);
La poesia italiana delle origini, in
Manuale di Letteratura Italiana,
edited by F. Brioschi and C. Di Girolamo (Torino, Bollati Boringhieri 1993).
Editor of the critical
edition of T. Costo, Il Fuggilozio
(Roma, Salerno editore 1989), and the Italian edition of important critical
studies on Dante critics (Boyde, Baranski, Freccero).
Anna Maria
Compagna
Associate
Professor of Catalan. Her field of research is the literary influences
between Italy and Catalonia. Publications
include Fonti Aragonesi, vol X
(Napoli, Accademia Pontaniana 1979) and Testi
lucani del Quattro e Cinquecento (Napoli, Liguori 1983). Editor of Lupo de
Spechio, Summa dei re di Napoli e Sicilia
e dei re d’Aragona (Napoli, Liguori 1990) and various other texts. Member
of the Academy of Bonas Lletras in
Barcelona. Member of the academic board for the doctoral course in Romance
Philology and Linguistics. Teaches Catalan Linguistics in the post-graduate course
on Linguistics and Sociolinguistics of the European Languages. Scientific
coordinator of a research project financed by the Italian National Research
Council (CNR) entitled "Lirica e narrazioni in versi dei secoli XIV e
XV".
Matteo D’Ambrosio
Researcher
in Italian Studies. A specialist in semiotics, modern literature and avant-garde
movements, Matteo D’Ambrosio is also an art critic. Former graduate student at the Istituto B. Croce (Naples) and
the International Center for Semiotic Studies (Urbino), he was a Fulbright
Fellow at Harvard University, a Visiting Professor in Semiotics of Literature at
the P.U.C. in São Paulo, and has carried out research at Yale University. Has
published 14 books (essays, anthologies of poetry and reviews, monographs,
conference papers, and catalogues). The
titles of his most recent publications are Marinetti
e il Futurismo a Napoli (De Luca 1996) and I Circumvisionisiti (CUEN 1996). Has published essays and articles
in reviews and collections in Italy and abroad. Has participated in conferences in Europe, the United States,
and Brazil, and organised exhibitions, conferences, and poetry recitals.
Nicola De Blasi
Associate
Professor of the History of the Italian Language. Is a
contributor to Letteratura italiana
Storia e geografia (Einaudi 1986-87), Storia della lingua italiana (Einaudi 1993), Manuale di Letteratura italiana (Boringhieri 1993-96), L’Italiano
nelle regioni (UTET 1992 and 1994), Lexicon
der Romanistischen Linguistik (Niemeyer 1995) and Lexicon
Grammaticorum (Narr 1996). Has
published studies and reviews in "Medioevo romanzo", "Studi di
lessicografia italiana", "Studi e problemi di critica testuale",
"Lingua nostra", "Italica", "Romanische
Forschungen", "Archivio storico per le province napoletane",
"Romance Philology", "Quaderni di italianistica",
"Quaderni di retorica", "Filologia e critica" and the
proceedings of national and international conferences.
He
was Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto. His
principal publications include 1) F. Albano Leoni and N. De Blasi (eds.), Lessico
e Semantica, Atti del XII Congresso Internazionale di studi della Società
di Linguistica Italiana (Sorrento 19 -21 May 1978) (Roma, Bulzoni 1981) (two
volumes, 539 pages); 2) N. De
Blasi, Tra scritto e parlato. Venti
lettere mercantili meridionali e toscane del primo Quattrocento (Napoli,
Liguori 1982) (120 pages); 3) N. De
Blasi, Libro de la destructione de Troya.
Volgarizzamento napoletano trecentesco da Guido delle Colonne.
Edizione critica, commento, descrizione linguistica e glossario (Roma,
Bonacci editore 1986) (456 pages); 4)
N. De Blasi, Carta, calamaio e
penna". Lingua e cultura nella
Vita del brigante Di Gè (Potenza, Il salice 1991);
5) N. De Blasi, P. Di Giovine, F. Fanciullo (eds.), Le parlate lucane e la dialettologia italiana, Atti di Convegno di
Potenza e Picerno (2-3 dicembre 1988) (Galantina, Congedo 1991);
6) P. Bianchi, N. De Blasi, R. Librandi, Storia
della lingua a Napoli e in Campania. I’ te vurria parlà (Napoli, Tullio
Pironti editore 1993); 7) N. De
Blasi, L’Italiano in Basilicata. Una
storia della lingua dal Medioevo a oggi (Potenza, Il salice 1994);
8) Iacopo Sannazaro, Lo gliommero napoletano
"Licinio se ’l mio inzegno", edited by Nicola De Blasi (Napoli,
Edizioni Libreria Dante & Descartes 1998).
Assunta De
Crescenzo
Researcher
in Italian Studies. Has published
two monographs on Emilio Cecchi (Gli
svaghi di Ortensio. Byron,
Shelley, Keats e la critica italiana , Napoli, De Simone 1988; and La forma gordiana. Classicismo
e romanticismo in E. Cecchi, Napoli, Giannini 1988), as
well as various articles for Italian and American journals on William Hazlitt
and Foscolo as a critic (with particular emphasis on his Essays on Petrarch). In
addition to the literary production of Italian exiles in England in the
eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries, her most recent interests include
poetics and the theory of art in twentieth-century Italian literature
(Pirandello, Bontempelli, Rocco Scotellaro and Neo-realism).
Francesco
D’Episcopo
Researcher
in Italian Literature. Author of numerous volumes and essays on novelists and
poets, mostly southern, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, including
Masuccio Salernitano, Sant’Alfonso Maria de’ Liguori, Francesco Jovine,
Alfonso Gatto, and Enzo Striano. Wrote the entries on Parrasio
and Salutati for the Enciclopedia
Virgiliana. Writes for national and
international journals. Has edited the proceedings of major conferences as well
as many works by the above-mentioned authors.
Costanzo Di
Girolamo
Professor of Romance Philology. At the University of Naples since 1989,
taught previously at McGill University (Montreal), Johns Hopkins
University (Baltimore) and the University of Calabria (Cosenza).
Specialist in romance philology, literary theory, comparative literature
and Italian studies.
Major
publications include Teoria e prassi della
versificazione (Bologna, Il Mulino 1976, 19832, 19863);
Critica della letterarietà
(Milano, Il Saggiatore 1978; English translation, 1981; Spanish translation,
1982; Portuguese translation, 1985); Elementi
di versificazione provenzale (Napoli, Liguori 1979); Elementi di teoria letteraria (with Franco Brioschi; Milano,
Principato 1984; Spanish
translation 1988); La ragione critica.
Prospettive nello studio della letteratua (with Alfonso Berardinelli
and Franco Brioschi; Torino, Einaudi 1986); I
trovatori (Torino, Bollati Boringhieri 1989; Catalan translation 1994); Avviamento
alla filologia provenzale (with Charmaine Lee; Roma, La Nuova Italia
Scientifica 1996). Edited
the Libro di lu transitu et vita di
misser sanctu Iheronimu (Palermo, Centro di studi filologici e linguistici
siciliani 1982); and Ausiàs March,
Pagine del Canzoniere (Milano, Luni
1998). Also edited La
letteratura romanza. Una storia per
generi (Bologna, Il Mulino 1994, 19962);
and Manuale di letteratura
italiana. Storia per generi e
problemi, 4 vols. (with Franco Brioschi - Torino, Bollati Boringhieri
1993-96). General editor of the
series "Strumenti di filologia romanza" (Il Mulino) and of the
"Collezione di testi siciliani dei secoli XIV e XV". Currently
involved with Rosario Coluccia in coediting a new critical edition of the poets
of the Sicilian school for the Centro di studi filologici e linguistici
siciliani. Participant
in the joint university research project "La poesia dei trovatori e le sue
irradiazioni europee." Member of the academic board of post-graduate studies
in "Filologia romanza e linguistica"
Vincenzo Dolla
Born
in Naples and graduated at the Federico II University of Naples with a thesis
entitled Il Madrigale nella poesia del
Trecento. Studied with Salvatore Battaglia and Mario Santoro, with whom he
worked until 1982. Subsequently worked with Giorgio Fulco on Italian philology,
a field in which he still teaches and carries out research.
After
work on fourteenth-century poetry (Alessio di Guido Donati and Petrarch) and
some forays into the nineteenth century, his interest shifted to southern
Italian literature of the late sixteenth century (Scipione Monti) and the second
half of the seventeenth century (Carlo Pecchia).
Studies
in metrics led to contributions on the Martellian line (P.J. Martello, C.
Goldoni, P. Napoli-Signorelli) and the poetry of Eduardo de Filippo as well as
two essays on Giordano Bruno’s metre in the Candelaio
and the Eroici Furori.
Recent
publications include the following:
Giorgio Fulco
Professor
of Italian Literature. Born in Salò on 27 Sept. 1940, Prof. Fulco studied at
the Federico II University of Naples. In 1968 he became teaching assistant of
Italian literature with his mentor, Salvatore Battaglia, then with Aldo Vallone.
As Associate Professor, he taught Italian philology from 1983 to 1990, and has
taught Italian literature since 1990. Current chairman of the Department and
coordinator of the University Library Commission, appointed by the University
Chancellor.
Prof.
Fulco’s fields of interest are Italian baroque literature, Giovan Battista
Marino and the Neapolitan and southern cultures between the sixteenth and the
seventeenth centuries, erudite collecting and dialect literature. Currently
working on a new edition of Marino’s Lettere
and a critical edition of Vico’s Poesie
for the CNR Centro di Studi Vichiani. His approach is philological and
interdisciplinary (history of ideas and figurative art). Published the annotated
edition of Francesco Pona’s La Lucerna
and Baldassarre Bonifacio’s Il
Paltoniere as well as numerous articles on Marino, on the unpublished poetry
of Marzio Milesi, friend and bard of Caravaggio, on the Museum of the Della
Porta brothers, on Giambattista Basile, on Campanella, and on Neapolitan books
and readers in the modern age. Has also written two long studies on Giambattista
Marino and on the Letteratura dialettale
napoletana. G.C.
Cortese, B.B. Basile e P. Sarnelli
in the Storia della letteratura italiana
(general editor E. Malato), IV, Salerno editrice, Roma 1997. Member of the
editorial board of the journal Filologia e
critica and of the BIGLI (Bibliografia generale della lingua e della
letteratura italiana).
Raffaele Giglio
Professor
of Italian, and coordinator of the academic board for post-graduate studies in
Italian. Co-editor of the quarterly journal "Critica letteraria" and
general editor of series of critical editions of texts and of volumes of
literary criticism. Currently working on a joint university research project
with the universities of Chieti and Salerno aimed at publishing
editions of Texts of authors from southern Italy between the fifteenth and twentieth
century centuries. Has written
on Dante’s Divine Comedy, on southern
Italian literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and on the
relationship between literature and journalism. Has published the following
books: L’invincibile penna. Edoardo
Scarfoglio tra letteratura e giornalismo (Napoli, Loffredo 1994, II ed.); Autore e lettori.
Letture della "Commedia" e saggi sugli interpreti di Dante (Massa
Lubrense, Il Sorriso di Erasmo 1990); Frammenti
di inediti. Studi di letteratura
meridionale (Napoli, Loffredo 1984); Letteratura
in colonna. Letteratura e
giornalismo a Napoli nel secondo Ottocento (Roma Bulzoni 1993);
La letteratura del sole.
Nuovi studi di letteratura meridionale (Napoli, ESI 1995);
Campania. Storia e
testi (Letteratura delle regioni d’Italia, Brescia, La Scuola 1988);
Il volo di Ulisse e di Dante.
Altri studi sulla "Commedia" (Napoli, Loffredo 1997).
Has also edited critical
editions of Imbriani, Scarfoglio, and Serao.
Silvana La Rana
Researcher
in English, and Temporary Professor of Applied Linguistics/TEFL. A graduate in
Applied Linguistics (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples), Silvana La Rana
has taught innovative teaching methods with the aim of improving and updating
the methodology of teaching English as a foreign language, and has also carried
out research regarding self-access learning and the use of media in teaching.
Between
1994 and 1990 her interests broadened to include a historical approach.
This came about largely thanks to her close co-operation with Prof.
Thomas Frank, then Professor of the History of English.
Her research into English Linguistics thus has a dual approach.
She has
investigated Linguistics and Methodology, and her publications in this field
include Note sulla semplificazione del materiale scritto (1977), La
lingua inglese in Italia, chapter VI of T. Frank, Introduzione
allo studio della lingua inglese (Bologna, il Mulino 1989). Her publications in historical linguistics include Aspects
of lexical innovation in Early Modern English (1992), The
case of the in EModE Syntax
(1993), and Nonce v/s Nonce: EModE word-formation revisited (1994).
Since
1993 she has been teaching the methodology of teaching English as a foreign
language at the Federico II University of Naples.
Her most recent publication arising from this experience is a manual
entitled La didattica dell’inglese. Origine
e sviluppo
(Napoli, Liguori 1997).
Member
of university boards for improving teaching methodology and organizer of teacher
training courses for schoolteachers. Students
choosing to write their theses under her supervision are encouraged to study the
methodologies currently in use and compare them with the real needs of language
learners.
Rosamaria
Loretelli
Associate
Professor of English. Author of Da picaro
a picaro. Le trasformazioni di un genere letterario dalla Spagna all’Inghilterra
(Roma, Bulzoni 1984), Storie di
Vagabondi (Torino, Eurelle 1993), Dal
patibolo. Crimini e pene nella
letteratura popolare inglese (secolo XVII - XVIII) (with
E. Cerone - Napoli, ESI 1995). Translator
of Mary Astell’s A Serious Proposal to
the Ladies and Daniel Defoe’s An
Academy for Women (M. A. Una
seria proposta alle signore - D.D. Un’accademia
per donne, Roma, Lestoille 1982). Editor of a monographic issue of the
journal "L’asino d’oro" (6,
nov. 1993) on the subject of eighteenth-century popular literature of crime and
co-editor of two collections of essays on the same sybject Narrating Transgression (Peter Lang, 1999) and Il delitto narrato al popolo
(Palermo, Sellerio 1999). Rosamaria Loretelli has also published articles in
"Il Confronto Letterario", "Studies on Voltaire and the
Eighteenth Century", "Studi Settecenteschi", "Strumenti
Critici" and other journals. She
is a member of the academic board for the Master’s Degree course in Women’s
Studies.
Giovanni Maffei
Born
in Naples in 1956. Researcher in Modern and Contemporary Italian
Literature with particular emphasis on nineteenth-century literature. Principal
publications:
I.
Ippolito Nievo e il romanzo di transizione,
Napoli, Liguori 1990
2.
Nievo umorista, in Effetto
Sterne. La narrazione umoristica in
Italia da Foscolo a Pirandello, Pisa, Nistri-Lischi 1990, pp. 170-230
3.
L’appendice Carlo Bini traduttore di
Sterne in Effetto Sterne, pp.
341-389
4.
V. Pica, Lettere a Federico De Roberto
(edited by Giovanni Maffei, who also wrote the introduction and notes), Catania,
Fondazione Verga 1996
5.
Il romanzo antropologico, in Gli
inganni del romanzo. “I Viceré” tra storia e finzione letteraria (Atti
del Congresso celebrativo del centenario dei Viceré, Catania, 23-26 novembre
1994), Catania, Fondazione Verga 1998, pp. 15-69.
Enrico Malato
Professor
of Italian literature. President of the Scientific Commission for the National
Edition of the Works of Niccolò Machiavelli and for the National Edition of the
Works of Pietro Aretino, and President of the Centro Pio Rajna di studi per la
ricerca letteraria, linguistica e filologica. National coordinator of a vast inter-university research
project sponsored by the Centro Pio Rajna and financed by the Ministero
dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, entitled
"Censimento e edizione dei commenti danteschi," with the purpose of
identifying and producing modern editions of commentaries on the Divina
Commedia.
His
fields of research include the Neapolitan literary and linguistic tradition from
the fourteenth to the eighteenth centuries, early Italian literature, the Dolce
stil nuovo, Dante, Boccaccio and the Italian novella, Machiavelli, Aretino,
Tasso, Giulio Cesare Cortese and Giovan Battista Basile together with his
follower Pompeo Sarnelli, Giannone, Genovesi, Filangieri, Galiani, Capuana and
the popular narrative tradition of the nineteenth century, and the general
problems of theory and method in literary research.
His
publications include critical editions of various texts (Opere
poetiche by Giulio Cesare Cortese and Filippo Sgruttendio [Roma, Edizioni
dell’Ateneo, 1967, 2 vols.], Poesie in
lingua, also by Cortese [in "Filologia e Critica", 1991], Posilcheata
by Pompeo Sarnelli [Firenze, Sansoni, 1962;
Roma, Benincasa, 1986], Del
dialetto napoletano by Ferdinando Galiani, and Grammatica
della lingua napolitana by Francesco Oliva [Roma, Bulzoni, 1970], Intrichi d’Amore. Comedia by Torquato Tasso [Roma, Salerno Editrice,
1976], etc.); investigations in attributive philology, often supported by
linguistic and stylistic analysis of the text (La
scoperta di un poeta: Giulio Cesare
and Nuovi documenti cortese-sgruttendiani [in "Filologia e
Critica", 1977], a series of articles concerning Intrichi d’Amore [1976-84], etc.); critical reconstructions of
complex historical and textual situations (in many of his studies on Dante, on
the tradition of the novella, etc. partly collected in the volumes Lo
fedele consiglio de la ragione. Studi
e ricerche di letteratura italiana, Roma, Salerno Editrice, 1989;
Dante e Guido Cavalcanti.
Il dissidio per la "Vita
nuova" e il "disdegno" di Guido,
id., 1997; Dante,
id., 1999, etc.); investigations on particular questions and profiles of
leading figures, etc.
Founder
of a general bibliography of Italian language and literature, Bibliografia
Generale della Lingua e della Letteratura Italiana (BiGLI), of which volumes
I-V (1991-1995) have already been published, and volume VI (1996) is imminent. In 1995 he began the publication of a vast Storia
della Letteratura Italiana in
14 volumes, with the collaboration of approximately 120 authors, both Italian
and foreign, conceived in such a way as to offer a wide panorama of Italian
literary civilisation from the origins to the end of the twentieth century, with
various areas of special interest (La
tradizione dei testi, La critica letteraria in Italia dal Due al Novecento, La
letteratura italiana fuori d’Italia, etc.). So far volumes I to VII (from
the origins to the nineteenth century) have already been published, and volume
VIII (the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries) will be appearing shortly.
He founded an extensive historical dictionary of the Neapolitan dialect, Vocabolario
storico del dialetto napoletano, now in the final stages of preparation at
the University of Lecce. Editor of
the review "Filologia e Critica” (first year of publication, 1976) and of
the series "I novellieri italiani" (Salerno Editrice: 19 volumes
published in 29 tomes), "Texts and documents of literature and
language" (Salerno Editrice: 15 volumes published in 20 tomes).
Often involved in giving seminars and lectures, and in conferences at
various Italian and foreign universities (has given lectures at universities in
London, Lille, Copenhagen, Odense, Århus, Geneva, Lausanne, Basel, Zurich,
Prague, Warsaw, New York, Boston (Harvard), Los Angeles (UCLA), San Francisco,
Toronto, Montreal, etc.). Has
organised numerous national and international conferences, including La
critica del testo (Lecce, October 1984), La
novella italiana (Caprarola,
September 19887, Il testo e la ricerca di
équipe (Viterbo, September 1990), Pietro
Aretino nel 500enario della nascita (Roma-Viterbo-Arezzo, Toronto-Los
Angeles, September-October 1992).
Giovanna Malquori Fondi
Associate
Professor of French, she teaches History of the French language.
Her major areas of research are epistolary forms (letters, epistolary
novels) and the theory and practice of translation.
Editor of a critical edition of the Abbé d’Aubignac’s Roman
des Lettres (Tübingen 1989)
and Guilleragues’ Lettres portugaises
(Napoli 1990). Has also written about translation theory within the linguistics
of Port-Royal (Pisa-Geneva 1985).
Member of the Centre
International de Rencontres sur le XVIIIe
siècle; of the Association Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur l’Epistolaire,
the Seminario di Filologia Francese and the CNRS Groupe d’étude en histoire de
la langue française. Responsible for reporting on and reviewing Italian
publications on seventeenth-century French literature for Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature.
Stefano Manferlotti
Professor
of English, and author of essays and books mainly devoted to modern and
contemporary British literature. His
publications include George
Orwell (Firenze, La Nuova Italia 1979), Antiutopia.
Huxley, Orwell, Burgess (Milano, Mursia 1987), Dopo
l’Impero. Romanzo ed etnia in Gran
Bretagna (Napoli, Liguori 1995), James
Joyce (Catanzaro, Rubbettino 1997). Has
also translated Dickens, Chesterton, Huxley, Orwell and Melville.
General editor of the series The
Lion and the Unicorn, (Napoli, Liguori). Director of the Linguistic Centre
of the Federico II University of Naples and an Honorary Member of the British
Council.
Ettore Massarese
Teaches
History of the Theatre and writes and directs for experimental theatre. His
major fields of research include nineteenth-century Neapolitan theatre (editor
of the complete works of Antonio Petito - Torre di Napoli, Napoli 1078-84, 7
vols., as well as the critical edition of the plays of Salvatore Di Giacomo -
Napoli 1990), theory of drama verified through intersection with literary genres
(essays on Gerusalemme liberata and
Pirandello’s Si gira..., as well as
the book Il teatro assente. Corpi
e fantasmi teatrali nella letteratura da Boccaccio a
Pirandello, to be published by
Nistri-Lischi, Pisa).
Laura Minervini
Researcher
in Romance Philology. Her fields of interest include romance linguistics,
historiography and travel literature, linguistic and cultural contacts between
Western Europe and the Near East in the Middle Ages. Has studied and carried out
research at various European and American universities and is a member of the
editorial board of the journal Medioevo
romanzo.
Her
publications include LM (ed.) Libro
di viaggi di Beniamino da
Tudela, Palermo, Sellerio; LM (ed.), Testi
giudeospagnoli medievali (Castiglia e Aragona), 2 vols., Napoli, Liguori,
1992; LM (ed.), L’art de la chasse des
oisiaux, Old French translation of De
arte venandi cum avibus by
Frederick II, Napoli, Electa Napoli, 1995; LM (ed.), Cronaca
del Templare di Tiro 1243-1314, Napoli, Liguori, 1999.
Elda Morlicchio
Associate
Professor of Germanic Philology since 1992, Professor Morlicchio’s research
ranges from German onomastics (Antroponomia
longobarda a Salerno nel IX secolo - I
nomi del Codex Diplomaticus Cavensis, Napoli, 1985; Articoli 161 e 190 in Namenforschung.
Ein Internationales Handbuch zur Onomastik, Berlin 1996) to historical
linguistics of the German language (Introduzione
allo studio della lingua tedesca, Bologna 1988 - with F. Albano Leoni; Der Satzrahmen: Die Länge des Satzes und die Mitteilungsperspektive. Eine Analyse anhand deutscher Urkunden des 13 Jh.s,
"Zetschrift für deutsche Philologie" 1991). She
is currently working on the Germanic element in the Italian lexicon. Since 1993
she has been editor of the sections on the German element for the Lessico Etimologico Italiano
(general editor, Prof. Pfister - Universitat des Saarlandes). Socrates delegate
for the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the Federico II University of
Naples.
Maria Muscariello
Researcher
in Italian Studies. Student of the
seventeenth-century novel and author of La
società del romanzo. Il
romanzo sprirituale barocco (Palermo,
Sellerio 1979). Her
interest in late nineteenth-century narrative led to the publication of Le
passioni della scrittura. Studio sul primo
Verga (Napoli,
Liguori 1989). Has
also written essays on Verga, Tarchetti and De Roberto.
Her research on women writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
resulted in the publication of essays on Neera and Maria Messina. Edited C.
Ricci’s unpublished letters for the book Napoli
habillé. Scenari
della Napoli aristocratica nelle lettere di Carolina Ricci (1882 -1883)
(Venosa, Osanna 1997).
Ugo M. Olivieri
Researcher
in Italian Studies. His interests
lie in three main areas: 1) recent
critical theories with particular emphasis on semiotics and hermeneutics; 2) the
form of the novel between the second half of the nineteenth century and the
beginning of the twentieth century; 3) twentieth-century avant-garde literature.
Has published an anthology on the French avant-garde literary movements
of the Seventies ("Change" un laboratorio del ’900, Napoli, Liguori 1986); a
monograph Narrare avanti il reale.
Le
"Confessioni d’un Italiano" e la forma romanzo nell’Ottocento (Milano,
Angeli 1990). Has published various
essays in books and journals. Has
also edited the following critical editions:
L. Pirandello, Uno, nessuno e
centomila (Milano, Feltrinelli 1993), E. De La Boetie, Discorso
sulla servitù volontaria (Torino, La Rosa 1995) and
I Nievo, Scritti giornalistici (Sellerio,
Palermo 1996).
Antonio Palermo
Professor
of Italian. Born and educated in Naples, studied with Salvatore
Battaglia and specializes in nineteenth and early twentieth-century literature. Publications
include Carlo Tenca (Napoli, Liguori,
1967), Corrado Alvaro (Napoli, Liguori
1967), Letteratura e Contemporaneità
(Napoli, Liguori 1985), Da Mastriani a
Viviani (Napoli, Liguori 1987), Il
vero, il reale e l’ideale (Napoli, Liguori 1995).
Author
of chapters VIII and IX, vol. V,
of the Storia della civiltà letteraria
italiana (Torino, UTET).
Member of the academic
board for post-graduate studies in Italian and of the editorial board of
"Filologia e Critica."
Anna Maria Palombi
Cataldi
Associate
Professor of English Literature. Teaches modern and contemporary English
literature.
Prof.
Palombi’s main interests are in Romantic Poetry (S.T.
Coleridge: fede e ragione, 1978),
detective fiction (Stories of Mystery and
Detection, 1981; English Detective Stories, 1982), Court masques (La
festa dei sensi nel teatro inglese del
‘600, 1990; The Union of England and
Scotland Represented at Court in Ben Jonson’s “Hymenaei”, 1998), war
literature (I poeti della guerra,
1985; Mai più tanta innocenza: poesie
di guerra fra ‘800 e ‘900, 1995),
travel literature (editor of Capri by
Norman Douglas, 1985; Il mito di Capri:
Norman Douglas, 1996; editor of La
lucertola azzurra e altri racconti by Norman Douglas, 1998), and American
literature (Herman Melville, poeta della
guerra, 1983; Bernard Malamud
e l’identità americana, 1989; L’isola
come microcosmo in Lord of the Flies
di W. Golding e in God’s Grace di B.
Malamud, 1998). Currently involved in publishing an essay on Lord
Hay’s Masque by Thomas Champion and two essays on D.H. Lawrence and Norman
Douglas, and preparing a monograph on Court masques.
Matteo Palumbo
Associate
Professor of Italian. His research
interests lie in two main areas: the Renaissance and the novel in the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. His
primary interests are Svevo, Foscolo, and Guicciardini.
His major works are La coscienza di
Svevo (Napoli, Liguori 1976); Il secondo Svevo (with F.P. Botti and G. Mazzacurati (Napoli,
Liguori 1981); Gli orizzonti della verità. Saggio
su Guicciardini (Napoli, Liguori 1984);
Francesco Guicciardini (Napoli,
Liguori 1988); Saggi
sulla prosa di U. Foscolo (Napoli, Liguori 1994).
Has
published articles on F. Tozzi, G. Leopardi, Renaissance literature, Savonarola
and the sixteenth-century Florentine historians. Writes for Italian and international literary journals.
Has taught courses and seminars at the University of Marseille -
Aix-en-Provence, Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) and the University of
Liege.
Pasquale Sabbatino
Having
graduated in Modern Letters with a thesis on the literature of the 1950s and
60s, he has been Researcher in Italian literature since 1980. Has taught
Renaissance literature since 1992. Student of the literature of World War II and
the 1950s, especially the work of the southern writer, Nino Palumbo, and the
poetry and essays of Franco Fortini.
Antonio Saccone
Associate
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature. His principal
publications are the following: Books:
Massimo Bontempelli. Il
mito del ’900
(Napoli,
Liguori 1979); Marinetti e il futurismo (Napoli, Liguori 1984, new edition in
1998); L’occhio narrante. Tre
studi sul primo Palazzeschi (Napoli, Liguori 1987); Carlo Dossi.
La scrittura del margine (Napoli, Liguori 1995);
Essays: Nome
e lagrime: ultimo pretesto per
Vittorini, in "Nord e Sud", aprile 1973;
L’ideologia letteraria
dell’ultimo
Vittorini, in "Trimestre" nn. 1-4, 1973;
Le Prose polemiche di
Luigi Russo dal primo al secondo dopoguerra, in "Belfagor" n. 5,
1980; Il
simulacro della scena e l’"industria dello spettcolo".
Il modello di Nostra Dea di
Bontempelli, in "Studi novecenteschi" n. 24, 1982;
Primordi dell’"Italia
futurista". Corra, Settimelli
e la "misurazione" dell’opera
d’arte, in "L’Italia futurista" 1916-1918 (Firenze, S.P.E.S., 1992);
Bontempelli e l’avanguardia: la
"trincea avanzata" e la "città dei conquistatori", in Massimo
Bontempelli scrittore ed intellettuale, Atti
del Convegno di Studi, Trento 18-20 aprile 1991 (Roma, Editori Riuniti 1992);
Figurazioni del personaggio
incendario: Marinetti e Palazzeschi,
in "Filologia antica e moderna", nn. 5-6, 1994;
Il mito della rigenerazione nel
primo manifesto futurista, in Visioni
e Archetipi. Il mito nell’arte
sperimentale e di avanguardia nel primo Novecento, Università degli studi di Trento 1996; Le riviste del Novecento, in F. Brisoschi, C. Di Girolamo (eds.) Manuale di letteratura Italiana, vol. IV (Torino, Bollati
Boringhieri 1996); Le avanguardie, in F. Brisoschi, C. Di Girolamo (eds.) Manuale
di letteratura Italiana, vol. IV (Torino, Bollati Boringhieri 1996).
Rosanna Sornicola
Professor
of General Linguistics. Her fields of research include the investigation of
spoken language, functional syntax, typology, sociolinguistics and dialectology,
history of linguistics and the diachronic and synchronic analysis of the Romance
languages. Member of the European Science Foundation research group on the
typology of the languages of Europe and currently involved in many other
international research projects. Director of the European Master’s Degree course
in Linguistics at the Federico II University of Naples.
Her
works include the following: La competenza
multipla. Un’indagine
micro-socio-linguistica (Napoli,
Liguori 1977); Sul parlato (Bologna, Il Mulino 1981); Il campo di tensioni. La sintassi della Scuola di Praga (co-editor
A. Svoboda - Napoli, Linguori 1991); The
Virtues of Language (co-editor D. Stein
- Amsterdam, John Benjamins 1998).