SCANDAL

Participants

Marco Camerani

Marco Camerani is 29 years old and comes from Forlì, Italy. He graduated in Lettere Moderne at the University of Bologna with a thesis on “The Relationship Svevo- Joyce: the Humor of Everyday Life in La Coscienza di Zeno and in Ulysses”. In June 2007 he defended his Ph.D. thesis in Comparative Literature on “Techniques of Montage Between Cinema and Literature: Joyce”, which deals with the idea and the practice of montage at the beginning of the 20th Century, focusing in particular on the influence of early cinema on Joyce's Ulysses in terms of montage, themes, motifs, etc. He wrote an article which has been included in the proceedings of Synapsis 2005 and he is currently working on the concept of the “nervous body" as it is developed in literature and cinema at the beginning of the last century.

Giulia Capotondi

Gulia Capotondi is 28 years old and she graduated at the University of Bologna in 2005 in Theory of Literature, with a thesis about Moravia entitled Between dreams and reality: the dreamy universe of Alberto Moravia. Now she is attending a teacher training postgraduate school (SSIS) and she does research on 20th Century Italian and European Literature (Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Heinrich Boell). This is her third attendance of Synapsis.

Cécile Guedon

Cecile Guedon is finishing her M.A. in European Culture at the Centre for European Studies at the University College London. She took a MA at La Sorbonne in Comparative Literature in 2005 and has studied in Pisa as an exchange student in 2003-2004, in Berlin and in Heidelberg in 2005-2006. She is mainly interested in European Modern poetry, and she has explored the stylistic appropriation of danced gestures and the choreographical ars poetica in European modern poetry (starting from the French moderns, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Stéphane Mallarmé and Paul Valéry, and then broadening the study to William Butler Yeats, Georg Trakl, Rainer Maria Rilke and Nicola Marinetti). She would like to further investigate the figural role of dance in modernist aesthetics in the course of her PhD in Humanities and Cultural Studies at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College that she is starting in October 2007.

Elisabetta Lo Vecchio

Elisabetta Lo Vecchio is 30 years old. She finished her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Bologna University, with a thesis on the figure of Jesus Christ in modern and contemporary cultures (“E il Verbo si fece carne”. La figura di Gesù Cristo nell’immaginario moderno e contemporaneo). At the moment she is continuing her research on Jesus Christ, focusing on the Christian concept of skándalon and its reception in Modernity and Postmodernity.

Kate Mitchell

Kate Mitchell is 31 years old and finished her Ph.D. in Italian Studies this year. The topic of her thesis was the intersection between the realist fiction and journalism by three Italian women writers from the late 19th Century: La Marchesa Colombi, Neera and Matilde Serao. She examined how, through fiction, women writers who upheld the status quo were able to engage in a multi-level and complex way with the debates between politicians and emancipationists on the 'proper' role of women.

Eleonora Pizzinat

Eleonora Pizzinat is 27 years old and a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna. She is studying J.M. Coetzee's works in respect of the connection between ethic and literature, the sense of guilt and the intertextual link between Coetzee's, Kafka’s and Dostoevskij’s novels. She graduated in 2004 at the University of Trieste with a thesis about authorship and the figure of the character-writer in some contemporary novels (Byatt's Possession, McEwan's Atonement, Coetzee's Foe, The Master of Petersbourg and Elizabeth Costello). She wrote an essay for the collective book Quaderni di Synapsis 2004 about Paul Auster's New York Trilogy and this year will be her third attendance of Synapsis.

Stefano Rosignoli

Stefano Rosignoli is 26 years old and comes from Mantua. He finished his degree at Bologna University with an M.A. thesis in History of Literary Criticism. He studied the relations between Mario Praz’s ideas about the role of criticism and the history of literature, and the conflict with Benedetto Croce’s aesthetics. Now he is studying for the Masters in Publishing, chaired by Umberto Eco and run by the Scuola Superiore di Studi Umanistici di Bologna, a Postgraduate Centre for Humanities at Bologna University.

Tiago Guerreiro da Silva

Tiago Guerreiro da Silva is 24 years old and comes from Lisbon. He graduated in Political Science and International Relations at the New University of Lisbon. He is currently finishing a Master in Comparative Literature at the University of Lisbon with a dissertation on “Re-Scripture: Politics and Apocalyptic in Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita and in Dante Alighieri's Comedy”. This year he wrote an article entitled “La Bella Menzogna : Dante Alighieri entre a Idade Média e a idade dos media”. His main interests are: Dante Studies, Fiction Theory, Literary Theory and Interart Studies.

Maria Lujan Tubio

Maria Lujan Tubio is from Buenos Aires, Argentina. She received a BA
in Comparative Literature from the American University of Paris and a
Post-graduate degree in Interpreting and Translating from the
University of Bradford (UK). At present, Maria Lujan is completing a
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at Penn State University, where she is
conducting research on existentialist literatures across the Atlantic.

Mimi Vasilaki

Mimi Vasilaki comes from Athens, Greece. She completed a B.A. (Hons) degree in Modern Language and English Language with final honours in French and Italian at the University of Essex, including a year spent in the University Paris-X as an exchange student. Mimi did her M.A in Comparative Literature at UCL with a dissertation focusing on literature and pornography and the aesthetics of obscenity in Apollinaire and Bataille. She is currently reading for a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with a thesis on Surrealism and the configurations of the aesthetics of the avant-garde in the 30s and 40s in France and Greece. She is also member of the Leverhulme Evidence Narrative Group.

Enea Zaramella

Enea Zaramella is 26 years old and comes from Portogruaro, Venice. He graduated at the University of Trieste with a thesis in Latin American Literature, under the supervision of Ana Cecilia Prenz, “Il sainete come genere teatrale in Nemesio Trejo”. He will obtain his Master degree from the University of Trieste in October 2007, with a thesis focused on the relationship between language and jazz music in Julio Cortazar’s El perseguidor and Rayuela. His mayor interests are Latin American literature and Cinema and the relationship between music, visual arts and literature. He is applying for a Ph.D. in Spanish in the United States for the academic year 2008/9