Transnational Perspectives on Post-truth (2024-2025)
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Lee McIntyre, Boston University
What is Post-Truth (and What Comes After That)?
17 September, aula 106, 16:00 – 18:00 (Online)
McIntyre is a Research Fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and a recent Lecturer in Ethics at Harvard Extension School. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan.
Paolo Simonetti is associate professor of Anglo-American Literature at the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of Sapienza Università di Roma. He is the author of Paranoia blues. Trame del postmodern americano (Aracne 2009) and of about forty critical essays published in books and international journals such as Modern Language Studies, Critique, Leviathan, Ácoma, Fictions, Status Quaestionis, Memoria di Shakespeare.
Jeffrey Severs (University of British Columbia) and Michael Streit (Independent Scholar)
In Buffo Veritas: Clowns, Fascism, and Don DeLillo
9 October, Sala Riunioni 2 (3rd floor), 18:00 – 20:00 (Online)
Severs is Associate Professor and author of David Foster Wallace’s Balancing Books: Fictions of Value (2017). He has published several articles and book chapters on Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, William Gaddis, and Lydia Davis, among others.
Link: english.ubc.ca/profile/jeffrey-severs/
Streit is an independent scholar, with an M.A. in Literature from the University of British Columbia, whose research interests include twentieth century American literature. Along with Severs, he co-hosts Don DeLillo Should Win The Nobel Prize, a podcast that explores all aspects of DeLillo’s work.
Ali Dehdarirad is the author of From Faraway California: Thomas Pynchon's Aesthetics of Space in the California Trilogy (2023). He is a postdoctoral researcher and he currently teaches American literature and culture at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he obtained his Ph.D. in English-language Literatures with a focus on American literature. He has published a number of essays on Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, William T. Vollmann, Cormac McCarthy, Paul Auster, John Edward Williams, and Stephen Markley.
Link:corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/it/users/alidehdariraduniroma1it
Long Bui, University of California Irvine
Post-Information as Post-Memory: Vietnamese Americans, Trump, and the Unforgettable Wars
21 October, Sala Riunioni 2 (3rd floor), 14:00 – 16:00
Bui is an Associate Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of books such as Returns of War: South Vietnam and Price of Refugee Memory (2018), and Model Machines: A History of the Asian as Automaton (2022), and Viral World: Global Relations during the COVID-19 Pandemic (2024). He has published articles in Journal of Asian American Studies, Feminist Media Studies, Global Society, etc.
Giacomo Traina holds a Ph.D. in English Literatures, Language and Translation from Sapienza Università di Roma, with a dissertation entitled The Voice that Carries Everything: History and Confession in Viet Thanh Nguyen's "The Sympathizer." The main argument of his doctoral research was that "The Sympathizer" does not deal with the war in Vietnam as much as with its afterlives in memory, in its double capacity of historical novel and confessional narrative. The title of his latest publication is "Stage Props, Distorting Mirrors, and the Aesthetics of Incompletion: Metafictional Turns in Pierre and Mardi" (2024, LEVIATHAN, Oxford: Blackwell).
Link:phd.uniroma1.it/web/dottoredettaglio.aspxs=&i=3564&m=1214363&l=EN&p=&a=
Francesca Mussi, Sapienza Università di Roma
“The Truth about Stories is That That’s All We Are”: Questions of Truth, Storytelling, and the Apocalypse in Indigenous Canadian Contemporary Fiction
6 November, Sala Riunioni 2 (3rd floor), 11:00-13:00
Mussi is Adjunct Professor in English Literature at Sapienza University of Rome and Senior Editor for the Postcolonial Studies Association Newsletter. She recently completed a Leverhulme ECR fellowship in the Department of Humanities at Northumbria University, which has led to a monograph, Good Medicine Stories. Her first book, Literary Legacies of the South African TRC was published by Palgrave in 2020. She is also the editor of Indigenous Storytelling and Connections to the Land (Palgrave 2024).
Martina Lombardo is a second-year PhD student enrolled in the program in English Literature, Language, and Translation Studies at Sapienza University of Rome, in joint collaboration with the University of Silesia in Katowice. In 2023, she obtained her master’s degree from Sapienza, with a dissertation titled: “Can the Great American Novel Survive? Envisioning New Pathways in the XXI Century”, a comparative analysis of contemporary Black, Native American, and Hawaiian novels. Her current research focuses on prophetic voices in contemporary Native American literature, read in comparison to Melville’s Moby-Dick. Her research interests include contemporary fiction written by authors of color, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, and Post-Colonial Studies.
Link:https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/MARTINA-LOMBARDO_nP1860732_EN.aspx
Anna Roche, Université d’Aix-Marseille
“L’histoire en ‘comme si’ ou les intermittences de la mémoire”
21 November, Sala Riunioni 2 (3rd floor), 11:00 – 13:00 (Online)
Roche is Professor Emerita at Université d’Aix-Marseille. Anne Roche is Professor Emerita at Université d’Aix-Marseille (AMU). She is the author of about thirty books on literary theory and fiction, including Algérie, écritures de l’autre (Kimé 2019) and the winner of the Walter Benjamin European Prize in 2018: Exercices sur le tracé des ombres. Walter Benjamin (Chemin de ronde 2010). Her most recent book, Habiter l’utopie. Walter Benjamin architecte (Chemin de ronde), is scheduled for publication in 2024.
Valerio Cordiner is Associate Professor of French Literature and Culture (L-LIN/03) at the Department of European, American, and Intercultural Studies of the Sapienza University of Rome. Since January 2022, he has been the excetive chair of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation (L-12) for the 2022–2025 term. In 2015, he became a member of the Doctoral Board of the PhD program in Textual Sciences from the Middle Ages to Modernity: Medieval Philologies, Paleography, and Romance Studies (Sapienza University of Rome). Among his most recent publications are "La France ultraocéane. Le détournement de la République, Manziana, Vecchiarelli editore, Negotia litteraria" (2023), and "Le stylo dans la gangrène. Guerre d'Algérie et récits contemporains, Manziana, Vecchiarelli" (2017).
Link:https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/CORDINER-VALERIO_nC1709_EN.aspx
Massimiliano Demata, Università di Torino
Constructing the “Truth” in Discourse? Anti-science, Conspiracy Theories and Disinformation in the Age of Post-truth
5 December, Sala Riunioni 2 (3rd floor), 14:00 – 16:00
Demata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Turin. He was a Fulbright scholar in Yale (1999) and Indiana University (2014) and has held Visiting Professorships at Saarland University (2020), Sciences Po Lyon (2021), and OTH Regensburg (2022). He is the co-editor of the Journal of Language and Discrimination and has published on populist discourse, Trump's rhetoric, metaphors of the nation and social media discourse.
Link:https://www.dcps.unito.it/do/docenti.pl/Alias?massimiliano.demata#tab-profilo
Donatella Montini is Full Professor of English Language and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome, where she graduated in 1982. She holds an MA in Modern Philology (1988) and a Ph.D. in English Literature, which was awarded in 1995 by the Universities of Pisa and Florence. She has taught English Language and Translation at the University of Rome Sapienza since 2005. She teaches History of English, Stylistics, Political Discourse (undergraduate, MA, PhD students).
Chair of Sapienza Phd programme- Studies in English Literatures, Language and Translation.
2021 Plumer Visiting Fellow in early Modern Studies, at St. Anne’s College, Oxford.
Chief Editor of Memoria di Shakespeare A Journal of Shakespearean Studies.
Link:https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/MONTINI-DONATELLA_nC2338_EN.aspx
Brett Ashley Kaplan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Fiction as History, History as Fiction
14 January, Sala Riunioni 2 (3rd floor), 16:30 – 18:30 (Online)
Kaplan is a Professor and Conrad Humanities Scholar in the Program in Comparative and World Literature at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she directs the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies. She is the author of Unwanted Beauty: Aesthetic Pleasure in Holocaust Representation (2007), Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory (2011), Jewish Anxiety in the Novels of Philip Roth (2015). She is the editor of Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches (Bloomsbury, 2023) and co-editor of the collection in progress, Blewish: Contemporary Black-Jewish Voices. Her first novel, Rare Stuff was published by Spuyten Duyvil in 2022, and she is at work on a second novel, Vandervelde Downs.
Alice Balestrino is a Researcher at Università degli Studi Roma Tre. She obtained a Ph.D. in American literature from Sapienza Università di Roma, and was a research assistant and program coordinator at IFUSS, International Forum for US Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She has written a number of essays on Jewish-American Holocaust literature, alternate histories, post-9/11 fiction, autofiction, and narrative strategies for the representation of memory in graphic novels. She is the author of Extra-Vacant Narratives. Reading Holocaust Fiction in the Post-9/11 Age (2022), and she edited Past (Im)Perfect Continuous. Trans-Cultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII (2021). She taught American literature at Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Parma, and Università degli Studi Roma Tre.
Anna Mongibello, Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale
Indigenous Resistance in the Post-Truth Era: A Discursive Approach
24 January, Sala Riunioni 2 (3rd floor), 14:00-16:00
Mongibello is an associate professor at the University of Naples "L'Orientale," where she currently teaches English language and linguistics. Her research interests range from language, ideology, and identity to discourse and news translation in the Canadian context, explored through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis and utilizing the tools of Corpus Linguistics. She is a board member of the Italian Association for Canadian Studies. She has published articles on Canadian English, translators, and Indigenous women writers. She is the author of Geografie alterNative: scrittrici indigene contemporanee del Canada anglofono (2013) and co-author of Intersezionalità e genere (2021).
Kamelia Talebian Sedehi is currently an adjunct lecturer and she teaches American literature and culture and English for specific purposes at the Sapienza University of Rome, where she obtained her second Ph.D. in American literature, with a focus on Canadian Indigenous literature. She completed a doctorate in English literature at the University Putra, Malaysia, in 2016. She received her BA and MA in English literature from Isfahan University, Iran. She published a number of essays on Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and Indigenous authors in Canada, and she participated in multiple academic conferences in Europe and Asia. Her main research interests are canadian Indigenous literature, American studies, trauma studies, melancholia, humor studies, and african-american literature. She was part of the research group, "Imagining Inclusive Communities in European and American Culture," conducted by Professor Emilia Di Rocco.
Link:https://corsidilaurea.uniroma1.it/it/users/kameliatalebiansedehiuniroma1it
Valerio Cordiner, Sapienza Università di Roma
Il sole incantatore. Miti sovietici nella poesia francese
13 February, Sala Riunioni 2 (3rd floor), 14:00-16:00
Cordiner is Associate Professor of French Literature and Culture (L-LIN/03) at the Department of European, American, and Intercultural Studies of the Sapienza University of Rome. Since January 2022, he has been the excetive chair of the Bachelor’s Degree Program in Linguistic and Intercultural Mediation (L-12) for the 2022–2025 term. In 2015, he became a member of the Doctoral Board of the PhD program in Textual Sciences from the Middle Ages to Modernity: Medieval Philologies, Paleography, and Romance Studies (Sapienza University of Rome). Among his most recent publications are "La France ultraocéane. Le détournement de la République, Manziana, Vecchiarelli editore, Negotia litteraria" (2023), and "Le stylo dans la gangrène. Guerre d'Algérie et récits contemporains, Manziana, Vecchiarelli" (2017).
Link:https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/CORDINER-VALERIO_nC1709_EN.aspx
Emilio Mari is Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at Sapienza – University of Rome, where he graduated with honors in 2012 and 2013. In 2017 he received his PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies from the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ and in 2019-2021 worked as a Research Fellow at the International University of Rome – UNINT. His areas of research include: the semiotics of space and the relationships between Russian literature, architecture and landscape; Russian popular culture, folklore and mass culture; microhistory of the USSR, politics and practices of everyday life (leisure studies, material culture and consumer studies); critical theory and cultural theory; Russian theatre and performing studies. He is a co-editor of "eSamizdat. Journal of Slavic Cultures" and the author of the books "Between the Rural and the Urban: Landscape and Popular Culture in Petersburg, 1830–1917" and “A Cruel Romance. Aesthetics and Politics of Folklore in 20th century Russia”.
Emilio Mari is Assistant Professor of Russian Studies at Sapienza – University of Rome, where he graduated with honors in 2012 and 2013. In 2017 he received his PhD in Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies from the University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ and in 2019-2021 worked as a Research Fellow at the International University of Rome – UNINT. His areas of research include: the semiotics of space and the relationships between Russian literature, architecture and landscape; Russian popular culture, folklore and mass culture; microhistory of the USSR, politics and practices of everyday life (leisure studies, material culture and consumer studies); critical theory and cultural theory; Russian theatre and performing studies. He is a co-editor of "eSamizdat. Journal of Slavic Cultures" and the author of the books "Between the Rural and the Urban: Landscape and Popular Culture in Petersburg, 1830–1917" and “A Cruel Romance. Aesthetics and Politics of Folklore in 20th century Russia”.
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