Greta Perletti

PhD in Theory and Textual Analysis (Teoria e Analisi del Testo), Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Title of the PhD dissertation: “Dal mal sottile al mal gentile: la tisi nell’immaginario della modernità”.

Degree (4 years, Old University System [Vecchio Ordinamento]) in Foreign Languages and Literatures, Università degli Studi di Bergamo. Title of the final dissertation: “Terribilis est locus. Incarnazioni del Fuoco di Rina Sara Virgillito e i limiti della critica gender”. Score: 110/110 cum laude and right of publication.

National Academic Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor in English and Anglo-American Languages, Literatures and Cultures (10/L1). Selection Procedure 2016, D.D. no 1532/2016, results published on 19.09.2018.

National Academic Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor in English and Anglo-American Languages, Literatures and Cultures (10/L1). Selection Procedure 2012, D.D. no 222/2012, results published on 08.08.2014.

Current Position:

Assistant Professor (Ricercatore tempo determinato tipo B) of English Literature at the University of Trento.

Past Positions:

a.y. 2009/10 - 2017/18: Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Trento.

a.y. 2008/09 - 2017/18: Lecturer in English Language at the University of Bergamo.

Interdisciplinary Approach to Literature

Literature and Science Critical Methodology

Victorian Literature and Culture

Representations of the Body in Literature

Literary Representations of Illnesses

Women Readers

VIctorian Mental Sciences

The Long Nineteenth Century

• Research Fellowship in English Literature (Academic Discipline: L/LIN 10), Università degli Studi di Trento, funded by the Department of Letters and Philosophy. Title of the research project: “Brought to Light: La rappresentazione del corpo in letteratura e medicina”. From 01.05.2013 to 30.04.2014, Tutor: Prof. Francesca Di Blasio.
• Research Fellowship in English Literature (Academic Discipline: L/LIN 10), Università degli Studi di Bergamo, funded by the Department of Letters, Arts and Multimediality. Title of the research project: “Picturing the Invisible in the Body. Immagini del corpo tra letteratura, arte e medicina”. From 01.04.2012 to 31.03.2013, Tutor: Prof. Alessandra Violi.
• Research Fellowship in English Literature (Academic Discipline: L/LIN 10), Università degli Studi di Bergamo, funded by the Programme ‘Let’s Research’ of the European Social Fund (FSE). Title of the research project: “Forme e mutamenti della memoria culturale fra arte, scienza e letteratura in epoca modernista”. From 16.05.2007 to 15.05.2008, Tutor: Prof. Alessandra Violi.
• Research Fellowship in English Literature (Academic Discipline: L/LIN 10), Università degli Studi di Bergamo, funded by the Department of Letters, Arts and Multimediality. Title of the research project: “Le malattie della memoria nell’immaginario della modernità”. From 04.10.2005 to 03.10.2006, Tutor: Prof. Alessandra Violi.
• Member of the research unit of the University of Bergamo in the European Research Project “ACUME2 – European Thematic Network under the Socrates Programme on Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities”. Principal Investigator: Prof. Vita Fortunati, Università degli Studi di Bologna. From 01.10.2006 to 01.10.2009.

• Scientific advisory work for the research project “Cineaffetti: Alla riscoperta dello spettatore cinematografico. Memorie di carta e scenari digitali”, funded by CARIPLO. The research was a contribution to a shared exhibition on spectators’ memories (held at GAMEC, Galleria di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, 13.11.2015 – 13.12.2015). Principal Investigator: Prof. Barbara Grespi, Università degli Studi di Bergamo. From 17.03.2015 to 16.05.2015.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Book Series Acume2: Interfacing Science, Literature, and the Humanities (General Editors: Vita Fortunati and Elena Agazzi) of Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht unipress, Goettingen. From 01.10.2008 to present.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Band A Academic Journal Elephant and Castle. Laboratorio dell’immaginario, Università degli Studi di Bergamo. From 01.01.2010 to present.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Academic Journal Dintorni. Rivista di letterature e culture, Università degli Studi di Bergamo. From 01.01.2007 to 31.12.2010.

Peer Reviewer for the Academic Journals: Neo-Victorian Studies; Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione; Annali della Facoltà dell’Università degli Studi di Sassari.

Member of: AIA (Associazione Anglistica Italiana). From 01.01. 2007 to present.

Member of BSLS (British Society for Literature and Science). From 01.01.2008 to present.

September 2018. Recipient of the BSLS (British Society for Literature and Science) small grant to promote the study of Literature and Science.

The research project “Forme e mutamenti della memoria culturale fra arte, scienza e letteratura in epoca modernista” (2007/2008) was awarded by the European Social Fund with funds to cover all the publishing costs for the book Le ferite della memoria. Il ritorno dei ricordi nella cultura vittoriana (Bergamo University Press, 2008).

• 23.10.2018. Invited Speaker at the Conference "La Medicina Incantata", Università degli Studi di Firenze. Title of the paper presented: "Il mal gentile. La tisi e l'individualità interessante nella cultura del lungo Ottocento".

• 09.10.2018. Invited Speaker at the Seminar Series "Raccontare la scienza e l'innovazione", Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale. Title of the paper presented: "'My Hideous Progeny'. Frankenstein tra scienza, letteratura e cultura popolare".

• 20.09.2018. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “Books, Readers, and Reading: Celebrating the 250 Years of the Leeds Library”, University of Leeds, UK (20-22 September 2018). Title of the paper presented: “‘Tis NOVEL Most Beguiles the Female Heart’: Women Readers and the Pathologies of Leisure Time in the Early 19^th Century".

• 09.08.2018. Invited speaker at the Sanatorium Museum (Museo dei Sanatori) in Sondalo (So). Title of the paper presented:”Il sanatorio e il malato interessante: riflessioni dalla letteratura”.

• 08.06.2018. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “Cultural Histories of Air and Illness”, University of Warwick, UK (8-9 June 2018). Title of the paper presented: “The Purity of Air and the Medical Treatment of Consumption: Constructing the Interesting Self in 19^th- and Early 20^th-Century Culture”.

• 14.11.2017. Invited Speaker at the Seminar Series “Geni ed eroi della scienza”, Università degli Studi di Trento, Dipartimento di Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale. Title of the paper presented: “Kazuo Ishiguro. Romanziere del mondo fluttuante”.

• 15.06.2017. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “CHIMED 1 – First International Conference on Historical Medical Discourse”, Università degli Studi di Milano (14-16 June 2017). Title of the paper presented: “‘That Fine Edge of Light’. The Medical Gaze and the Transparent Body in Late Nineteenth-Century Culture”.

• 05.05.2017. Collaboration as chair at the AIA Seminar “Cultures, Literatures and Languages in the Contact Zones”, Università degli Studi di Trento (4-5 May 2017).

• 29.09.2016. Participation as speaker at the Conference “Rina Sara Virgillito, poeta e traduttore”, on the centenary of Rina Sara Virgillito’s birth, Università degli Studi di Bergamo (29 September 2016). Title of the paper presented: “‘Conosco vite’. Le traduzioni poetiche dall’inglese di Rina Sara Virgillito”.

• 20.05.2015. Invited Speaker at the Doctoral Seminar "Il corpo consapevole. Immaginario scientifico, arti visive e tecnologie della visione", Università degli Studi di Pavia, in collaboration with the PhD in Intercultural Humanistic Studies (Studi umanistici interculturali, Università degli Studi di Bergamo). Organised by Prof. Federica Villa (Pavia). Title of the paper presented: "Il corpo trasparente. Diagnostica per immagini e cultura visuale".

• 20.06.2014. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “Theories of Light in the British Arts of the 19th and 20th Century”, Université Paris 7, Paris Diderot (20-21 June 2014). Title of the paper presented: “The Medical Gaze and the Construction of the Consumptive Body in Early Nineteenth-Century Culture”.

• 21.02.2014. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “Districare il nodo genere-potere: sguardi interdisciplinari su politica, lavoro, sessualità e cultura”, Università degli Studi di Trento (20-21 February 2014). Title of the paper presented: “‘How Shapely She Is / What Fine Bones’: L’Immagine medica del corpo femminile e il potere della trasparenza nella cultura di inizio Novecento”.

• 04.12.2013. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “Corpi in pietra”, Università degli Studi di Milano (3-4 December 2013). Title of the paper presented: “Teatro e memoria nella cultura elisabettiana”.

• 06.06.2013. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “Shakespeare’s Cracked Mirrors: Broken Female Bodies and Savage Minds”, The International Shakespearean Centre, Romanian Cultural Institute, London (6-7 June 2013). Title of the paper presented: “‘[B]ut it appears she lives’: Frozen Bodies and Female Passions in Shakespeare’s Plays”.

• 17.04.2013. Invited Speaker at the Seminar "Letteratura e Corpo" of the PhD School in English Studies (Scuola di dottorato in anglistica", Università degli Studi di Genova, organised by Prof. Laura Colombino (Genova). Title of the paper presented: "Corpi sottili, corpi trasparenti: la malattia di consunzione nelle rappresentazioni del discorso medico e letterario".

• 02.12.2011. Invited speaker at the Seminar “Modelli Vittoriani”, sponsored and funded by ERSU, Università degli Studi di Sassari (2 December 2011). Title of the paper presented: “From the Philosophy of the Mind to the Physiology of the Brain: Imagination between Creativity and Pathology in Victorian Culture”.

• 08.11.2011. Invited Speaker at the Seminar "Anatomie politiche: le rappresentazioni del corpo tra medicina, arte e letteratura" of the PhD School in Humanistic and Visual Cultures (Scuola di dottorato in culture umanistiche e visive), Università degli Studi di Bergamo, organised by Prof. Alessandra Violi (Bergamo). Title of the paper presented: "L'invisibile visibile. La malattia polmonare nel discorso medico e letterario della modernità".

• 29.11.2010. Invited Speaker at the Seminar "Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones" of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate "Cultural Studies in Literary Interzones", organised by Prof. Franca Franchi (Bergamo). Title of the paper presented: "Translations and Transformations: Science, Literature and 'Cultural Encounters' in the Nineteenth Century".

• 15.10.2010. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “La letteratura e cultura vittoriana”, Università degli Studi di Sassari (13-15 October 2010). Title of the paper presented: “Fantasmagorie della mente. Gli spettri dell’immaginazione nella cultura medico-letteraria del periodo vittoriano”.

• 10.10.2009. Participation as speaker at the ‘Dickens Day’ organised by Birkbeck College, London University College, and the School of Advanced Studies, Institute of English, London (10 October 2009). Title of the paper presented: “‘A Belief in Our Personal Identity?’ Dickens, Victorian Mental Sciences, and Mnemonic Errancy”.

• 09.06.2009. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “Dickens and the Voices of Victorian Culture”, Università degli Studi di Verona (8-10 June 2009). Title of the paper presented: “Dickens and the Voices of Victorian Psychology on Memory”.

• 09.05.2009. Participation as speaker at the International Conference “Conceptualising Interfaces between the Sciences, Literature, and the Humanities: Travelling Concepts, Metaphors, and Narratives”, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg (8-10 May 2009). Title of the paper presented: “‘Experiment’ and its Travelling in British Romanticism”.

• 28.03.2008. Participation as speaker at the Third International Conference of the British Society for Literature and Science, University of Keele (27-29 March 2008). Title of the paper presented: “Remembering Too Much: The Hypermnesic Imagination in Victorian Literature and Science”.

• 20.11.2007. Participation as speaker at the First Trilateral Italian, French and German Conference “Imagination as camera obscura of narrative processes. Patterns and practices of representation of inner life in Europe (17th-20th Century)”, Centro Italo-Tedesco Villa Vigoni, Menaggio, Como (19-21 November 2007). Title of the paper presented: “Shadows, Ghosts, and Spectres. Disruptive Memory and the ‘Phrenological Personality’ in Charlotte Brontë’s Mature Novels”.

• 05.07.2007. Participation as speaker at the Third International Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association, Goldsmith College, University of London (2-5 July 2007). Title of the paper presented: “‘Agonising, Burning, and, alas! Maddening Thoughts’: Pathological Memory and the Dis-(re)-membering Self in Nineteenth-Century Culture”.

• 19.02.2005. Participation as speaker at the Conference organised to launch a special research fund for Rina Sara Virgillito’s works, Civic Library “Angelo Maj”, Bergamo (19 February 2005). Title of the paper presented: “La voce dei maestri e la parola poetica di Rina Sara Virgillito”.

• 26.11.2003. Invited Speaker at the Seminar “La parola poetica di Rina Sara Virgillito”, Ateneo di Scienze, Lettere e Arti, Bergamo (26 November 2003). Title of the paper presented: “Amor Cognitio Est: la parola poetica di Incarnazioni del Fuoco di Rina Sara Virgillito”.

• 22.03.2003. Participation as speaker at the Conference “Come tuono comprimersi nel limite. Il femminile, l’amore e l’estasi in Emily Dickinson e Rina Sara Virgillito”, Civic Library “Angelo Maj”, Bergamo (22 March 2003). Title of the paper presented: “Tra privilegio e condanna: estasi e poesia in Emily Dickinson e Rina Sara Virgillito”.