Faculty of Modern and听Medieval Languages and Linguistics Raised Faculty Building 澳门六合彩开奖记录 Sidgwick Avenue 澳门六合彩开奖记录 CB3 9DA United Kingdom
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In 2013 Erica received her听BA in Italian Literature from Universit脿 degli Studi di Catania with a thesis on Paolo Volponi鈥檚 Le mosche del capitale. She then moved to Venice, where she completed her MA in Italian Philology and Literature in 2016, with a thesis concerning thresholds, margins and exile in Paolo Volponi鈥檚 prose and poetry.
Between 2015 and 2016, Erica spent six months in Paris, at Universit茅 Paris Nanterre, as part of an Erasmus+ programme.
In 2017, she started her PhD at Selwyn College, 澳门六合彩开奖记录, supervised by Prof Robert S. C. Gordon and fully funded by a Keith Sykes Postgraduate Research Scholarship (three years). In July 2021, she defended her doctoral thesis, concerning some intersections between Italian industrial literature of the 1950s and 1960s and anticolonialism.
Thanks to an MHRA postdoctoral research scholarship, she is now working towards the publication of her PhD as a monograph (Legenda). She also contributes to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in the Faculty as an affiliated lecturer (IT1/ITA3, IT4, IT5, IT6). She is the paper coordinator for IT4 and IT6.
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Since 2021, Erica has offered undergraduate lectures and postgraduate seminars on several topics as part of the papers IT4, IT6, IT9 and MPhil module IT20th Century: New Commitments. In particular, she has taught the following modules:
- IT1/ITA3: Postcolonial Italian Literature: Shirin Ramzanali Fazel, Lontano da Mogadiscio
- IT4: Primo Levi; Contemporary Women鈥檚 Autobiography: Luisa Passerini and Igiaba Scego
- IT5: Carlo Levi鈥檚 South(s) (co-taught with Dr Michele Maiolani)
- IT9 & IT6: 鈥業talian Photo-texts After 1945鈥�
- IT6: 鈥楾ransnational Italy鈥� (co-taught with Mr Luigi Pinton)
- IT6: 鈥業talian Industrial Literature and Film听
- ITA1: Italian Language Supplementary Classes
- Two sessions of IT20th century: New Commitments, on 鈥楾he Long 1960s鈥� and 鈥業talian Colonialism, Anticolonialism and Postcolonialism鈥�
For all these modules, Erica has also supervised essays, long essays as well as optional dissertations. In addition, she has supervised students for Italian Oral B and for the IT1/ITA3 paper, on topics such as Dante, Vittoria Colonna, Machiavelli, Primo Levi, Natalia Ginzburg, Dino Risi鈥檚 Il sorpasso, Giotto and La dolce vita.
Erica's doctoral thesis investigates intersections between Italian industrial literature of the 1950s and 1960s and the anticolonial thought which in the same years circulated around Europe and was enthusiastically received in Italy by industrial writers. In particular, she proposes an anticolonial reading of Italian industrial literature of those years based on a conceptual analogy between industrialisation in Italy and a colonial process.
Her research interests also include:
- Italian post-war literature and cultural history
- Industrial literature and the relationships between literature and labour
- Modernism and Neo-Modernism
- Transnational Italian Studies
- Colonial, Anticolonial and Postcolonial Italy
During her academic path, Erica also developed a parallel interest in Anglo-American Literature (Ca鈥� Foscari-Harvard Summer School, Venice, June-July 2014).
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Erica is currently developing a research project on the reception of African and African American Literatures in Italy in the years of the Cold War.
She is currently part of the OBERT working group on Migration and Labour, which she contributed to found and which looks at artistic representations of migration and labour in world literature and art of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Peer-reviewed journal articles:
- 鈥樷�淐ome il lavoro dei corallai鈥�: note sui contributi di Leonardo Sciascia a Galleria鈥�, Todomodo, 11 (2021), 217鈥�228
- 鈥楥olonizzati o colonizzatori? L鈥檃nticolonialismo olivettiano sulle pagine di Comunit脿, 1954鈥�1964鈥�, in Umanesimo e tecnologia: il laboratorio Olivetti, ed. by Daniele Balicco (special issue of L鈥檕spite ingrato, n.s., 6 (2021)), pp. 89-97
- 鈥樷�淭radire la propria condizione鈥�: rappresentazioni dell鈥檌ntellettuale nell鈥檕pera di Paolo Volponi鈥�, Il lavoro della letteratura: forme, temi, metafore di un conflitto occultato e di un鈥檈mancipazione a venire, special issue of L鈥檕spite ingrato, online edition, 2018, 259鈥�280
- 鈥樷�淪ugli scalini di una casa altrui鈥�: soglie, margini, esilio in Memoriale di Paolo Volponi鈥�, Studi Novecenteschi, 94 (2017), 341鈥�363
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Book chapters:
- Erica Bellia, 鈥楢lgeria: anno settimo. Note su un documentario ritrovato鈥�, book chapter, in Con le mani libere: il cinema italiano e la liberazione dell鈥橝lgeria, ed. by Luca Peretti and Paola Scarnati (Arcidosso, GR: Effigi, 2022), pp. 163鈥�178
- 听Erica Bellia, 鈥樷�淣oi siamo tutti colonizzati dalla tecnica鈥�: riviste industriali e pensiero anticolonialista nell鈥橧talia degli anni Cinquanta e Sessanta鈥�, book chapter, in Fabrica in fabula: industria ed editoria culturale nel Novecento, a cura di Silvia Cavalli, Davide Savio and Carmen Van den Bergh (Florence: Franco Cesati, 2022), pp. 139鈥�148
- 鈥楾ommaso Di Ciaula鈥檚 Tuta blu (1978): The Voice and Body of the Working Class鈥�, book chapter, in Italian Industrial Literature and Film: Perspectives on the Representation of Postwar Labor, ed. by Carlo Baghetti, Jim Carter and Lorenzo Marmo (Bern: Peter Lang, 2021), pp. 349鈥�358
- 鈥樷�淟a citt脿 materna鈥�: Urbino nel Lanciatore di Giavellotto di Paolo Volponi鈥�, book chapter, in Idee, forme e racconto della citt脿 nella narrativa italiana (Florence: Franco Cesati, 2020), pp. 39鈥�47
- 鈥�Viaggio in Barberia di Luciano Bianciardi: appunti per una teoria dell鈥檃nti-viaggio?鈥�, book chapter, in 鈥�Un viaggio realmente avvenuto鈥�: studi in onore di Ricciarda Ricorda, ed. by Alessandro Cinquegrani and Ilaria Crotti (Venice: Edizioni Ca鈥� Foscari, 2019), pp. 345鈥�354
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Translations (English to Italian):
- David Forgacs, 鈥業taliani in Algeri鈥�, trans. by Erica Bellia, in Con le mani libere: il cinema italiano e la liberazione dell鈥橝lgeria, ed. by Luca Peretti and Paola Scarnati (Arcidosso, GR: Effigi, 2022), pp. 99鈥�120
- Viviane Saglier, 鈥樷�漊n mondo completamente nuovo in cui molte cose rimasero uguali鈥�. La听rappresentazione delle donne in Les mains livres鈥�, trans. by Erica Bellia, in Con le mani libere: il cinema italiano e la liberazione dell鈥橝lgeria, ed. by Luca Peretti and Paola Scarnati (Arcidosso, GR: Effigi, 2022), pp. 233鈥�248
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