Bertinoro, 26 agosto - 1 settembre 2001 

"Conspiracy, plot"

Professors and Tutors

PROFESSORS

Piero Boitani
Taught Italian Lit at Cambridge,  then American and English Lit at the Universities of Pescara and Perugia. Became Full Prof. of English Lit in 1981, since 1985 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. Currently Chair of Comparative Lit at “La Sapienza”. Visiting Prof in the Universities of Cambridge, Connecticut, Berkeley, Ohio State, Keio (Tokyo), Notre Dame, Harvard. President of the European Society for English Studies 1989-94 (now Founding President),  Fellow of the British Academy, fellow of the Academia Europaea, fellow of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences. Medievalist, Dante scholar, comparatist, interested in ancient myth as well as modern literatures, PB has published, amongst others, the following volumes: English Medieval Narrative of the 13th and 14th Centuries  (Cambridge UP 1982); Chaucer and the Imaginary World of Fame (Cambridge, Brewer 1984); The Tragic and the Sublime in Medieval Literature (Cambridge UP 1989); The Shadow of Ulysses. Figures of a Myth (Oxford UP 1994); Sulle orme di Ulisse  (Bologna, Il Mulino, 1998); The Bible and its Rewritings (Oxford UP 1999); Il genio di migliorare un’invenzione (Bologna, Il Mulino 1999). 

Helena Carvalhão Buescu
is an associate professor of Comparative Literature in Universidade de Lisboa. Her main areas of interest center around the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as theoretical issues in comparative literature. She regularly collaborates with foreign Universities, as a Visiting Professor or Researcher (Universities of Köln, Indiana/Bloomington, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Madison/Wisconsin, Stanford) and she has more than one hundred essays published, in both Portuguese and international periodicals. She founded and chairs the research Center of Comparative Studies (Universidade de Lisboa). Main titles include: Incidências do Olhar. Percepção e Representação (1990); A Lua, a Literatura e o Mundo (1995); editor of Dicionário do Romntismo Literário Português (1997); Em Busca do Autor Perdido (1998); editor (with M. Tamen) of A Revisionary History of Portuguese Literature (Garland, 1999); Chiaroscuro. Modernidade e Literatura (2001); Grande Angular. Comparatismo e Práticas de Comparação (2001). 
 

Luciano Canfora
 

Laura Caretti
 

Claude Cazalé
 

Remo Ceserani
 

Danièle Chauvin
 

Marcello Conati
 

Mario Domenichelli
 

Djelal Kadir
Djelal Kadir is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of The Center for Global Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, USA. He is the President of the International American Studies Association and also President of the International Comparative Literature Association's Committee on Theory. Former Editor of the international quarterly World Literature Today, he has also served on the editorial board of PMLA and continues to serve on the editorial board of Comparative Literature Studies, Variaciones Borges, and Modern Fiction Studies, among many other scholarly journals. His current publication projects include the Longman Anthology of World Literature (2003) and a special issue of PMLA, "America, The Idea, the Literature" (January 2003). He is also Co-Editor of The Oxford History of Latin American Literature (2002). Some of his publications are: Questing Fictions: Latin America's Family Romance. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987; The Other Writing: Postcolonial Essays in Latin America's Writing Culture. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1993; Columbus and the Ends of the Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric As Conquering Ideology. Berkeley, Los Angeles, Oxford: University of California Press, 1992. He has also published many articles, essays, and reviews. A complete curriculum vitae is available on his web page: http://www.LA.psu.edu/complit/faculty/kadir/welcome.html
 

Franco La Polla
 

Svend Erik Larsen
Svend Erik Larsen, professor of comparative literature, Aarhus University, Denmark. Director of the Humanities reserach Center:Man and Nature 1992-1997. Treasurer of the International Comparative Literature Association. Has published widely on semiotics, literature and urban culture and literature from the 19. and 20. century. Has published books in Danish on narrative theory, on conceptions of nature and language philosophy. A book on literature and solitude is in the pipeline in Danish. The book Sémiologie ltitéraire came out in 1984 and Signs in Use is scheduled to appear with Routledge later this year. Has edited Communication et sujet (1980), L'Actualité de Brøndal (1987), Gärten und Parks (1997), Nature - literature and its Otherness/la littérature et son autre (1997), Balzac (2000). 
 

Mario Lavagetto
 

Salvatore S. Nigro
 

Elisabeth Rallo
Elisabeth Rallo is professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Provence. She has also been interested in psychoanalysis and ethnology. In the literary field, she has dealt particularly with the role of adolescence in twentieth-century fiction. Her principal works include: L'adolescent dans le récit au XX siècle (1989); Méthodes de Critique Littéraire (1992 and 1999); Le roman en France au XX siècle (1994). Her essay on Stendhal (La Chartreuse de Parme de Stendhal, texte fondateur) will soon be published. 
 

Monica Spiridon
Professor of Literary Theory, Semiotics and XXth Century European Culture, Faculty of Letters, University of Bucharest. Member of the International Comparative Literature Association and elected member of the Executive Committee of ICLA. Founder and Secretary General of the Romanian Association of Comparative Literature..Elected president of the Research Committee for Central and South-East European Literatures. Member of the Romanian Writers Union and of the International PEN Club. 
Author of 8 books:Sadoveanu: the Wise Man' s Argument with the World, Albatros, 1982; On The Appearance and the Reality of Literature, Univers,1984; Melancholy of Descend. A Phenomenology of Generic Memory in Literature,Cartea Româneasca, 1989; (2nd ed. Polirom, 2000); Man and the Terror of History - Marin Preda the Novelist, Cartea Romaneasca, 1993; Eminescu: An Anatomy of Eloquence, Minerva, 1994 (2nd ed. in print) A Defense and an Illustration of Criticism, EDP, coll Akademos,1996; Interpretation without Borders, Echinox, 1998; Stefan Banulescu. An Introduction, Aula, Coll. Canon, 2000. Author of approximately 350 studies and articles published in scholarly journals and of several chapters in books published in Germany, Italy, Canada, Greece, The Netherlands, Portugal and the US. 
Member, the editorial board of the Review of National Literatures and World Report (Published by Council on National Literatures, New York, Ed. Anne Paolucci, New Series, 1999.and of Synthesis ( Romanian Academy). 
 
 

Jürgen Wertheimer
Jürgen Wertheimer was born in Munich and studied German literature and Comparative Literature in Münich, Siena and Rome. 
He currently teaches contemporary German Literature and Comp.Lit. at Tübingen Univ. (Germany). Since 1992 he is co-editor 
of "ARCADIA", the leading German journal in the field of Comparative Studies. Among his vast production, several 
monographies deserve special mention, such as the ones dealing with dialogic discourse in S.George's works, the aesthetics of 
violence, Nelly Sachs, the relationship between verse and politics, erotism in literature. He has directed an annotated version of 
Celan's works and has also, in the last few years, been investigating the conflicts and relationships that arise between different 
cultures. 

Bertrand Westphal
 
 

TUTORS

Pierluigi Pellini
 

Fabio Vittorini
 

Sergia Adamo
Sergia Adamo currently teaches Literary Theory at the University of Trieste, Italy. Her main research interests regard the problems of intercultural encounters (travel literature, translation history) and the relationship between literature and other cultural fields (law and literature, dance and literature). Among her publications, the book Dostoevskij in Italia (1998), and several articles in Italian and international journals on the above mentioned topics. She was a lecturer in Italian at Moscow University.

Donata Meneghelli
 

Simona Micali 
 

Sebastiana Nobili
 

Paolo Zanotti
Born 1971, studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa (first degree on children's literature, Ph.D. on Calvino's English and American models). At present he is collaborating with the University of Bologna. His publications include a book on Il modo romanzesco (Laterza) and several articles on Basile, Palazzeschi, Montale, Mary Shelley, Chatwin, Verne, and Stevenson. A book on islands and gardens in children's literature is in course of publication with Le Monnier publishing house. Among his current projects, he is writing with Remo Ceserani a contribution on "The Fragment as structuring force" for a forthcoming volume on Romantic Prose Fiction.

Sebastian Wogenstein,
Born 1973, studied German Literature, English and American Literature, Political Science and European Studies at the Universities of Tuebingen, Washington University in St. Louis (USA) and Hebrew University in Jerusalem (Israel). 1998 M.A. in European Studies, Washington University. 1999-2000 graduate scholarship of the State of Israel at Hebrew University, working on a doctoral thesis on "The structure of the tragedy in cultural-scientific discourses of the early 20th century." Since 2001 assistant lecturer to Prof. Juergen Wertheimer, University of Tuebingen (Germany).