How do creative practitioners use transmedial praxis to illuminate Italian colonial amnesia and the persistence of colonial subjectivities today? During my doctoral research into how intermediality studies enrich our analysis of postcolonial...
The 3rd Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School took place at Trinity College Dublin on 7-8 July 2022, was organised by Clodagh Brook and Cecilia Brioni with the support of the Irish Research Council...
In Carlo Emilio Gadda’s modernist works, dress never constitutes a merely instrumental element of narrative. Rather, it serves to reflect the social habitus of a character, or its very habits of being....
In 1972, the Dutch visual poet Herman Damen published an outstanding critical text illustrating the daring and multifaceted expressions of neo-avant-garde experimental poetry as follows: ‘a living poesia visiva uses all available...
How can we identify meaningful transmedial points of contact between cultural practices in a way that doesn’t overlook the specific modes of expression inherent to different medial forms? My doctoral research has...
Cultural history is full of examples of the fascinating interactions between art and literature. The verbal representation of an image known as ‘ekphrasis’, famously seen in Homer’s description of the shield of...
Every time that someone asks me to explain what my research is about, I mumble and mumble without knowing where to start from. Are Wu Ming simply a ‘writing collective’? Wondering ‘what...
If in 1603 the popular question was ‘to be or not to be?’, nowadays it is ‘to be specialised or to be interdisciplinary?’. Never was there a question of more woe than...
[This post gathers some preliminary ideas developed during the RHUL Research Training Programme in Interart/Intermedia methodologies] When the Italians remember the Second World War the main events that come to their minds...
[This post gathers some preliminary ideas developed during the RHUL Research Training Programme in Interart/Intermedia methodologies] The interplay between criminology and literature was one of the defining features of late nineteenth-century Italian...