Francesca Di Blasio

1994 M.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Pescara, Italy. Summa cum Laude. Title of the final dissertation: Prospettive psicanalitiche della critica inglese e americana a Shakespeare.

1999 Ph.D. in English Literature at the University of Pescara, Italy. Title of the final dissertation: Framing the Gaze. Modelli epistemici e paradigmi letterari nella cultura anglo-americana.

2000-2002 National Research Grant in English Studies at a the University of Bergamo, Italy.

1995-2000 “Cultrice della materia” at the University of Bergamo, Italy.

Current Position:

Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of Trento.

Member of the Board of the  Research Doctoral Course in “Forms of Cultural Exchange and Textuality” - Department of Humanities, University of Trento.

Teaching

From 2002 to present: Professor of English Literature at the University of Trento. (Undergraduate courses, Graduate courses, Post-Graduate courses)

From 1995 to 2000: T.A. of English Literature at the University of Bergamo.

1998-99: Professor of Anglo-American Literature at the University of Trento.

Research and areas of expertise:

Literary Theory

Transdisciplinarity in literary discourse 

Psychological Humanities. Narration, emotion, and the ethics of literature

Indigenous Australian Literature

Modernism

Early Modern Literature

Research abroad:

September- October 2019: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

June-July 2019: Research activity at the University of Western Australia (Perth) and The University of Tasmania (Launceston, Australia)

December 2019: Research activity at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)

April 2017: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

September-October 2016: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

February-March 2014: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

January-May 2011: Winner of a Short-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, U.S.A.) for a project on the representation of “Terra Australis” in English literature

June-July 2010: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

January-February 2009: Research activity at the Library of Congress (Washington, DC, U.S.A.)

July 2007: Research activity at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)

July 2006: Research activity at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)

October 2005: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

June-July 2004: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

November-December 2003: Research activity at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia)

July 2002: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

May-June 2001: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

February-May 1998: Research activity at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, U.S.A.)

Member of the following National and International Academic Associations

AIA, Associazione Italiana di Anglistica

AISAO, Associazione Italiani di Studi sull’Australia e sull’Oceania (President)

ANDA, Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Anglistica

ASAL, Association for the Study of Australian Literature

AAALS, American Association of Australasian Literary Studies

InASA, International Australian Studies Association

ESSE, European Society for the Study of English

MLA, Modern Language Association

SISSD, Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII

Member of the Editorial Board of Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione (University of Trento - Italy)

Member of the Advisory Board of Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione (University of Trento - Italy)

Member of the Editorial Board of Altre Modernità. Rivista di Studi Letterari e Culturali (Università Statale di Milano - Italy)

Member of the Editorial Board of the Labirinti Series (Editrice Università degli Studi di Trento)

Member of the Advisory Board of Revista Internacional de Culturas & Literaturas (Spain)

Member of the Referee Committee of the CISAM Essay Series (Centro Internazionale Studi sulle Avanguardie e sulla Modernità)

Member of the Advisory Board of SEMPER - Seminario Permanente di Poesia (Department of Humanities, University of Trento)

Member of the Center of Advanced Studies for Humanities (CEASUM, Department of Humanities, University of Trento (Dipartimenti di Eccellenza - art. 1, c. 314-337, legge 232/2016))

Member of the Advisory Board of the International Research Doctoral Course in “Forms of Cultural Exchange” (University of Trento)

Member of the Advisory Board of CSG - Centro Studi Interdisciplinari di Genere (University of Trento)

Member of the Psychological Humanities and Philosophy of Psychology Laboratory - PsyHuman Lab (University of Trento)

Faculty Representative of the Bilateral Agreement with the University of Adelaide and of the University of Melbourne (Australia) (University of Trento)

Winner of a Short-Term Fellowship at the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, U.S.A.) for a project on the representation of “Terra Australis” in English literature. 2011

Premio Annuale ANDA per la Letteratura Inglese - Miglior saggio accademico inedito di critica letteraria. Successivamente pubblicato sulla rivista Le Simplegadi. 2018

Conferences and Seminars Attended as Speaker

2022, 30 November-2 December, Canberra, Australian National University, InASA Conference (International Australian Studies Association) It’s Time… Again. Topic: “Rewriting H/history: The Space and Place of Emotion and Narration in Contemporary Australian Fiction”  

2022, 15-17 September, Catania, Università di Catania, AIA30 Conference (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Experiment and Innovation: Branching Forwards and Backwards. Topic: “‘Right us a wrong and break the thrall / That keeps us low’. Indigenous Australian Literature and Human Rights”

2022, 12-13 May, Trento, Università di Trento, ANDA International Conference (Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Anglistica) Always Connect: Transdisciplinarity and Intercultural Contact in Literary Discourse. Topic: “Opening Always Connect”

2021, 25-27 November, Sevilla, Universidad de Sevilla, Facultad de Filología, XVIII Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Italianistas Italia Sì, ItaliaNo: Una Cultura para el Mundo. Topic: “L’Australia in Italia. Uno studio sulla ricezione della cultura e della letteratura australiana”

2021, 6-10 April, Online, AAALS Conference (American Association of Australasian Literary Studies). Topic: “The Emotions of Things and Places: Narration and/as Healing in Kim Scott’s Taboo”. (Online)

2021, 29 March-1 April, Naples, Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, EASA International Conference (European Association for Studies of Australia) Australia as a Risk Society: Hope and Fears of the Past, the Present and the Future. Topic: “Cultural Memory and/as Possible Future(s). Cultivating Literature”. (Online)

2021, 08-10 February, Melbourne, ACU, InASA Conference (International Australian Studies Association) Reinventing Australia. Topic: “‘This accidental present / Is not all of me’. Cultivating Cultural Memory and Future Perspectives in Contemporary Indigenous Australian Literature”. (Online)  

2021, 7-10 January,  Toronto, MLA Convention (Modern Language Association), AAALS’s Panel (American Association of Australasian Literary Studies) Resistance and Persistence in (Post)Colonial Australia and Aotearoa/New Zealand. Topic: “Literature as Resistance and Persistence. Between Collective Memory and Possible Future(s)”. (Online)

2020, 29 June-2 July, Smithfield, Australia, James Cook University at the Cairns Institute, ASAL  Annual Conference (Association for the Study of Australian Literature). Topic: “Narration and Emotion in Kim Scott’s Writing”. (Online)

2019, 5-7 September, Padova, Università di Padova, XXIX AIA Conference (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), “Thinking Out of the Box in Language, Literature, Cultural and Translation Studies: Questioning Assumptions, Debunking Myths, Trespassing Boundaries”. Topic: “Antipodes of the mind. Early modern traveling and thinking”

2019, 1-4 July, Perth, Australia, University of Western Australia, Association for the Study of Australian Literature, 2019 Conference, “Dirt”. Topic: “The ‘Dirt of History’: Indigenous Narratives in Twentieth-Century ‘Postcolonial’ Australia”

2019, 24-26 April, Fairbanks, USA, University of Alaska at Fairbanks, American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, 2019 Conference. Topic: “Writing herstory: Trauma, Resilience, and Collective Cultural Memory at the Intersection between History and Literature in Indigenous Autobiographical Writing”

2019, 21-22 March, Trento, Università di Trento, AISAO International Conference (Associzione Italiana di Studi sull’Australia e sull’Oceania), “Relating Difference(s): Migrating Subjects, Inter-Cultural Exchanges, Literary Formations”. Topic: “Relating Differences”

2017, 14-15 December, Trento, Università di Trento, International Conference Tolkien e il Novecento. Topic: “L’etica fantastica e la sperimentazione divertente. Tracce di Novecento nei mondi immaginati di JRR Tolkien”

2017, 10-13 December, Sevilla, Spain, Universidad de Sevilla, XIV Congreso Internacional del Grupo de Investigación “Escritoras y Escrituras”, Ausencias. La Reconstrucción del Canon Literario. Topic: “Un altro sguardo sui classici. Studi di genere, canone e tradizione nella letteratura inglese”

2017, 20-22 April, Orangeburg, USA, Claflin University, American Association of Australasian Literary Studies, 2017 Conference. Topic: “Aboriginal Epos and Australian History. Interpreting and Translating the Australian Classic We Are Going by Oodgeroo Noonuccal”

2016, 12-14 December, Sevilla, Spain, Universidad de Sevilla, Jornadas Internacionales En los Márgenes del texto. Topic: ““I am born of the conquerors, you of the persecuted”: La storia s/velata nella poesia di Judith Wright e Oodgeroo Noonuccal”

2016, 30 March, Pescara, Università D’Annunzio, invited speaker. Topic: ““The land I loved/ Was taken out of your hands”: Lo spazio postcoloniale australiano”

2015, 10-12 December, Sevilla, Spain, Universidad de Sevilla, Jornadas Internacionales Locas. Escritoras y Personajes Femeninos Cuestionando Las Normas. Topic: “Ri-leggere Ophelia: da “pauvre folle” a “eroina femminista”

2015, 13-14 May, Trento, Università di Trento, International Conference All’Ombra del “Signore degli anelli”. Le opere minori di Tolkien. Topic: “‘Uncautionary tales’. Draghi e altre meraviglie nella letteratura ‘minore’ di J.R.R. Tolkien”

2014, 8-10 December, Tetuán, Morocco, Universidad Abdelmalek Essaadi, Congreso Internacional Género, Ciudadanía, Gobernanza, Estado de Derecho. Topic: “Nazionalità coloniale, alterità indigena. La ricostruzione identitaria nella letteratura autobiografica australiana delle donne”

2014, 5-7 November, Stockholm, Sweden, Stockholm University, International Conference Movement & Arrest in Early Modern Culture. Topic: “The Antipodes in the Early Modern Era: Between Traveling and Thinking”

2014, 22-24 May, Sevilla, Spagna, Universidad de Sevilla, Jornadas Internacionales “Estupro”: mitos antiguos y violencia moderna. Topic: “La reiterazione del mito violento e la retorica politica dello stupro in The Rape of Lucrece di William Shakespeare”

2013, 24-26 October, Madrid, UNED, X Congreso Internacional Ausencias: Escritoras en los márgenes de la cultura. Topic: “La centralità dei margini: la letteratura indigena australiana delle donne”

2013, 27-29 May, Marina di Massa, Convegno annuale della Società Italiana di Studi sul Secolo XVIII, Femminile e maschile nel Settecento. Topic: “Subalterno/Femminile: Omai nella Londra di fine Settecento”

2012, 4-8 September, Istanbul, Bogaziçi University, 11th ESSE Conference (Conference of the European Society for the Study of English). Topic: “As If Sculpting a Refusal to Die Of White History”: Autobiography in Contemporary Indigenous Literature of Australia

2011, 16-17 June, Firenze, Consiglio Regionale della Regione Toscana. Topic: “La Toscana e l’Italia di E.M. Forster”

2009, 1-3 October, Roma, Università Roma Tre, XXIV AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) National Conference. Topic: “Australian Indigenous Culture in the 21st Century”

2008, 28 April, Venezia, Università Ca’ Foscari, invited speaker. Topic: “Racconti di identità nella letteratura indigena australiana contemporanea”

2007, 9-12 July, Canberra, The Australian National University, International Conference Indigenous Biography and Autobiography. Topic: “The Reception of Australian Indigenous Writing in Italy: The Trodden Paths, and New Paths for the Future”

2006, 22-24 November, Sevilla, Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, III Seminario Internacional del grupo de Investigación Escritoras y Escrituras. Topic: “La letteratura aborigena australiana delle donne”

2005, 30 June-2 July, Trento, Università di Trento, Convegno Internazionale Postcolonial Studies: Changing Perceptions. Topic: “Aboriginality in Contemporary/(Post-)Colonial Australia”

2003, 26-28 September, Modena, XXI AIA National Conference. Topic: “Autobiographical Aboriginal Writings”

2001, 4-6 October, Catania, XX AIA National Conference. Topic: “My Place di Sally Morgan”

2000, 25-29 August, Helsinki, Finland, University of Helsinki, 5th ESSE Conference. Topic: “Victorian Landscapes”

1997, 9-11 April, Trento, Università di Trento, Convegno Internazionale Co(n)text. Implicazioni Testuali. Topic: “La visione e lo sguardo: dall’“eye more bright” shakespeariano all’“avoir à voir” beckettiano. Dinamiche contestuali”

Academic address: Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia

Via Tommaso Gar, 14

38100 Trento

E-mail: francesca.diblasio@unitn.it

Tel.: +39 0461 282076