Brief Curriculum Vitae:
(a more exhaustive version in the attachment)
Academic background:
October 2016 – March 2020
PhD DESE – Doctorat d’Études Supérieures Européennes in European Literatures, European doctoral curriculum EDGES in Women’s and Gender Studies
University of Bologna, with a cotutelle agreement with Universidad de Granada, Spagna.
Supervisor: Lilla Maria Crisafulli (Unibo), co-supervisor: María José de la Torre Moreno (UGR).
Thesis title: Women’s Tragedy in the Romantic Age: questioning English, Italian and Spanish theatre and drama from a feminist perspective. Thesis field of investigation: English Literature (SSD: L-LIN/10)
Final grade: Eccellente cum laude
February 2018 – March 2020
Doctorado en Estudios de las Mujeres, Discursos y Prácticas de Genero
Universidad de Granada, Spain (cotutelle agreement).
Final grade: Sobresaliente cum laude
February 2018 – July 2018
Mobility for research purposes at Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de las Mujeres y de Género, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
October 2014 – July 2016
Laurea Magistrale (MA) in Modern, Comparative and Postcolonial Literatures, European curriculum GEMMA in Women’s and Gender Studies
University of Bologna, Double Degree program with University of Hull, UK.
Supervisor: Lilla Maria Crisafulli (Unibo), co-supervisor: Laura Rorato (University of Hull).
Thesis title: Le Poetesse Inglesi dell’Età Romantica: una prospettiva critica femminista
Thesis field of investigation: English Literature (SSD: L-LIN/10).
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
October 2015 – November 2016
Master of Arts Degree in Women’s and Gender Studies
University of Hull, UK (GEMMA Double Degree program).
Final grade: First Class with Distinction
Ottobre 2010 – Novembre 2013
Laurea Triennale (BA) in Foreign Language and Literatures
University of Bologna. Supervisor: Maurizio Ascari (Unibo), co-supervisor: Gino Scatasta (Unibo).
Thesis title: “An Unsuitable Job for a Woman”? Cordelia Gray e l’evoluzione della donna detective. Thesis field of investigation: English Literature (SSD: L-LIN/10)
Conferences:
2022 Doomed from the start: the heroine’s descent into madness in Romantic and Modernist Literature, XXX AIA Conference: Experiment and innovation: branching forwards and backwards. Panel S27: “Engrafted anew”: the survival of Romanticism in English Modernist literature (convenors: Serena Baiesi e Paolo Bugliani), Catania, 15-17 September 2022.
2019 Benchmark sulle best practices delle aziende internazionali presenti all’interno del Diversity & Inclusion Index 2017 di Thomson Reuters: proposta di nuove idee e progetti, Dorctoral Conference Teorie e Pratiche di genere. Esperienze di formazione, Department of Modern Language, Literatures and Cultures (LILEC), University of Bologna, 2 December 2019.
2018 The ‘Monster’ in the House: the representation of the feminine in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, International Conference Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1818-2018: Circuits and Circulation, Bologna, 19-21 September 2018.
2017 Deconstructing the Boundaries: Gender and Genre in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark, International Conference Mary Wollstonecraft: Life, Work, Legacy, Kingston Upon Hull (UK), 8 March 2017.
Organization conferences, academic events and activities:
2019 International Summer School Romanticism on the Coast, coordinated by: Lilla Maria Crisafulli (Unibo), 17-21 June 2019, Lerici (SP) [organizing committee]
2018 Frankenreads, series of events to celebrate the bicentenary of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, coordinated by: CISR (Unibo), 30-31 October 2018, Bologna [organizing committee]
2018 International Conference Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein 1818-2018: Circuits and Circulation, coordinated by: CISR (Unibo), 19-21 September 2018, Bologna [organizing committee]
2017 Series of di seminars Tragedia nelle letterature europee as part of the dottoral program DESE – Doctorat d’Études Superiéures Européennes coordinated by: Bruna Conconi (Unibo), Ctober 2016-May 2017, University of Bologna. Co-organizators: Giulia Fiore, Nicolò Zaggia [organizing committee]
2015 Conference Violence against women and girls: community activism, politics and policies, coordinated by: Wica – Women in Community Activism, 26 November 2015, Kingston Upon Hull (UK) [scientific and organizing committee]
Lectures e Seminars:
2021 Seminar Improvvisatrici: donne in Arcadia e nella Commedia dell’Arte, 1500 – 1700, 9 April 2021. Coordinator: Antonella Franzese, Liceo delle Scienze Umane e Musicale “G. Rodari”, Prato.
2021 Seminar Romantic literary women: Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley in context, 20 January 2021. Coordinator: Catia Calleri, Liceo delle Scienze Umane e Musicale “G. Rodari”, Prato.
2019 Seminar Literature beyond the canons: unconventional English writers XVIII-XX, 10 December 2019. Coordinator: Antonella Valva, Liceo Artistico “U. Brunelleschi”, Montemurlo (PO).
2019 Lecture Elizabeth Inchbald’s The Mogul Tale: Gender, Otherness and Orientalism as part of the BA course ‘Letteratura Inglese 2’ (a.a. 2018-2019), 2 April 2019, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures - LILEC, Unibo. Coordinator: Serena Baiesi (Unibo).
2019 Lecture Romantic Women’s Tragedy: Gender, Genre and History as part of the MA course ‘English Women’s Literature’ (a.a. 2018-2019), 19 February 2019, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures - LILEC, Unibo. Coordinator: Lilla Maria Crisafulli (Unibo).
Scholarships:
2017 - 2018 Erasmus+ Scholarship for research purposes at Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudio de las Mujeres y de Género, Universidad de Granada.
2016 - 2019 PhD Scholarship DESE – Doctorat d’Études Supérieures Européennes, University of Bologna.
2015 - 2016 Erasmus+ MA Scholarship for a study period of six months at University of Hull, UK.
2014 - 2015 Marine Moullet MA Scholarship for Women’s and Gender Studies at Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures - LILEC, University of Bologna.
Prizes and awards:
2022 Honourable mention for a doctoral dissertation in the field of English Studies da parte di AIA – Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (February 2022) for my PhD thesis: Women’s Tragedy in the Romantic Age: questioning English, Italian and Spanish theatre and drama from a feminist perspective.
2019 Cultrice della materia in English Literature at University of Bologna (November 2019).
Memberships:
2015 WICA – Women in Community Activism (October 2015)
2016 CIRS – Centro Interuniversitario per lo Studio del Romanticismo (October 2016)
2017 AIA – Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (June 2017)
2017 ESSE – European Society for the Study of English (June 2017)
2017 WSG – Women’s Studies Group (November 2017)
2021 BARS – British Association for Romantic Studies (February 2021)
