Project Leaders

Clodagh Brook

(BA and MA University College Dublin, DPhil Oxon) – Professor in Italian and Head of Italian at Trinity College Dublin. She was Interdisciplinary Italy’s deviser and its Principal Investigator and continues to provide its intellectual leadership (as International Co-investigator since her transfer to Ireland in 2017)…

Florian Mussgnug

(BA Oxon, MSt Oxon, PhD Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa) is Professor in Italian and Comparative Literature at UCL and Academic Director of the UCL Comparative Literature Programme. He has published widely on 20th and 21st Century literature, with a particular focus on literary theory, experimental literature, and narrative prose fiction…

Giuliana Pieri

(Dott. Lett. Pavia; MA Kent, DPhil Oxon) is Professor in Italian and the Visual Arts at Royal Holloway University of London and Head of the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has published widely on 19th and 20th century visual culture, cultural history and popular literature…

Emanuela Patti

(Dott. Lett. Urbino, MA UCL, PhD University of Birmingham) was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham for the project Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: interart/intermedia, and is now Lecturer in Italian at the University of Edinburgh. Before joining this project, she was Senior Lecturer of Media Theory at the Media School…