SCANDAL

Participants

Gonçalo Cordeiro

Gonçalo Cordeiro was born in Portugal, in 1983. He has completed a degree in Modern Literature at the University of Lisbon. In 2005, he co-edited a book on the Great Earthquake of Lisbon. At the moment, he is writing a PhD dissertation on Comparative Literature, studying the relations between the Bible and Literature and giving special attention to the wisdom corpus of the Old Testament. His interests also involve Rhetoric, Hermeneutics and Portuguese Literature.

Olga Desiderio

Olga Desiderio is 25 years old. She graduated in Lingue e Letterature Straniere at the University of Salerno, with a degree dissertation about the theme of passion and reason in Shakespeare's love tragedies.
She is doing a PhD in Testi e Linguaggi nelle Letterature dell'Europa e delle Americhe at the University of Salerno and the theme of her research is the influence of Nietzsche in D H Lawrence.

Matteo Fabbris

Matteo Fabbris got a MA in Foreign Literatures and Languages at the Università degli Studi di Milano in 2005, with a dissertation entitled “Representations of the Body in Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Painting”. He published an essay, “Writing Pre-Raphaelite Body: the Hand as Aesthetic Manifesto” in The Review of Pre-Raphaelite Society and wrote articles on contemporary theatre. He is doing his PhD in English Cultural Studies (1st year) at the University of Milan, working on a thesis on dandyism and aestheticism in 20th Century English culture (exploring literature, cinema, music as well as the media). Among his other interests are: transcodification and the relationship between word and image, body and sexuality in the arts and popular culture, the connections between Victorianism and postmodernism.

Eleonora Felisatti

Eleonora Felisatti is 26 years old and comes from Ferrara, where she graduated in 2005 in Modern Languages and Literature, with a study plan focused on English and Performing Arts.
After attending the University of Exeter, UK, for a year and got in touch with Pakistani-born dramatist and novelist Rukhsana Ahmad, Eleonora wrote her final dissertation entitled “A case of South Asian Diaspora Literature: Rukhsana Ahmad and her female characters”.
At present Eleonora lives in Bologna, working as a technical translator in an intellectual property consultancy firm, but she intends to carry on studying Literatures in English and Comparative Studies. In particular, the main topic of her research project will be focused on performative forms of expression of post-colonial experiences.

Cristina Gamberi

Cristina Gamberi was born in Bologna in 1977 and wrote a MA thesis on “Contemporary Women's Literature: The paradigm of Vision in feminist theory”. In 2004 she attended a one year Master on Women's Studies at Bologna University. She is now enrolled in the PhD program in Gender Studies at Naples University: she is writing a dissertation on the work of Angela Carter. Her latest publication is a book-review published on the journal 'La camera blu', which focuses on Angela Carter and her essay The Sadeian Woman.

Nicola Ibba

Nicola Giacomo Ibba (1976), Italian, took his degree in Theory and History of Literary Genres at the University of Bologna under the supervision of Prof. Donata Menghelli with a thesis on the representation of homosexuality and homoerotic desire in modern literature, especially focusing on E. M. Forster’s Maurice. Currently he is a graduate student in Comparative Literature at the University College of London (Italian department, supervisor prof. Florian Mussgnug) and Goldsmiths College (English and Comparative Literature Department, supervisor Prof. Lucia Boldrini). His PhD thesis investigates the relationship between the representation of homosexuality and the issues of censorship and authorship in Forster’s Maurice and Saba’s Ernesto.

Juliet Morrish

Juliet Morrish is 23 years old and is originally from the West Midlands, in England. After studying English Literature at St. Anne's College, University of Oxford, she enrolled on the MA Comparative Literature course at University College London. She has just completed her MA thesis, which was a comparison between the works of South African novelist JM Coetzee and South African artist William Kentridge, entitled “The Politics of Representation”. She now lives in London and hopes to find work in radio production and freelance journalism. Her interests include improvised comedy and stand up comedy (both watching and performing), writing, and music.

Øyvind Prytz

Øyvind Prytz, born 1975, is a PhD-candidate in comparative literature at NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, Norway. Working title of the dissertation is “Calvino’s literary experiment of experience”. He carried out his studies in Trondheim, Bergen, Rome and Bologna, and graduated as MA in comparative literature at NTNU in Trondheim. The master’s thesis was entitled “Imperial State, City Stat. A reading of Italo Calvino’s Le città invisibili”. In addition to his studies, he reads manuscripts for a major Norwegian publishing house, and writes book reviews for a local newspaper.

Luca Raimondi

Luca Raimondi is 24 years old and comes from Carpi. He graduated in Foreign Languages and Literature (First-Level Degree) at the University of Bologna with a thesis in sociolinguistics researching the social dimension of linguistic variation in Portuguese. He is currently attending a Second-Level Degree Course in Comparative Literatures and Post-colonial Cultures at University of Bologna.

Ana Rodriguez-Navas

Ana Rodriguez-Navas is a Venezuelan Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She holds two MAs with honors from the Université de Paris III - Sorbonne Nouvelle, one in Comparative Literature and the other in English. Her research focuses on 20th century Latin American and Anglophone prose, and she is particularly interested in literary relations and exchanges across countries: issues such as literary appropriation, rewriting, confluence and the travel of genres and forms. She also works on 19th-century French and Russian literatures, and on film. Her dissertation examines Cuban exile writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante’s construction of a cultural genealogy that is informed by Anglo-American sources and which playfully blends and subverts popular culture and high art.

Elettra Tamborrino

Elettra Tamborrino is 27 years old and she lives in Bologna, Italy. She graduated in November 2005 at the University of Bologna in Foreign Languages and Literatures with a final thesis: “The Body beyond the Word: the Narrative Voice in Written on the Body by Jeanette Winterson”. In this work she examined the ungendered narrator portrayed in the novel through a comparative perspective, using both literary critical theory and feminist theory. She is now enrolled in a Phd in Literatures and Cultures of the English Speaking Countries at the University of Bologna. Her interest is focusing on contemporary South African literature, with particular attention given to the theme of reconciliation in the post-Apartheid period.