Shadows
Before the Beginning and After the End.
(Another) Report on the Shadow Industry
University of Bologna
Silvia Albertazzi is Full Professor of English Literature at the University of Bologna, where she is also the Director of the Centre for the Study of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature and the Responsible of a PhD on Literatures and Cultures of the English Speaking Countries. She is the author of many critical volumes and collections of essays, such as Introduzione a Lawrence (Laterza, 1987); Bugie sincere. Narratori e narrazioni 1970-1990 (Editori Riuniti, 1992); La letteratura fantastica (Laterza, 1993); Nel bosco degli spiriti (Vecchiarelli, 1998); Lo sguardo dell'Altro. Le letterature postcoloniali (Carocci, 2000); Il romanzo new global. Storie di intolleranza, fiabe di comunità (ETS, 2003), the chapters on the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries of Breve storia della letteratura inglese (Einaudi, 2004), and In questo mondo, ovvero, quando i luoghi raccontano le storie (Meltemi, 2006), winner of the Ist Literary Prize for Essay Writing "Alziator" in 2007. With Roberto Vecchi she edited Abbecedario postcoloniale (Quodlibet, 2001, 2002; II ed. 2004).; with Vecchi and Barnaba Maj, Periferie della storia (Quodlibet, 2004), and with Ferdinando Amigoni, Guardare oltre. Letteratura, fotografia e altri territori (Meltemi, 2008). Her articles have appeared on literary journals all over the world and on the magazines Linea d'ombra and Pulp, and the newspapers Il Piccolo, il manifesto and Liberazione.