Giulio Genovese

Visiting Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies
Giulio Genovese headshot

Contact

ggenovese@brynmawr.edu
610-526-5666
Old Library 140

Department/Subdepartment

Education

Ph.D. in Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Laurea specialistica (MA), Universit脿 della Svizzera italiana

Laurea triennale (BA), Universit脿 di Bologna

Areas of Focus

IItalian Literature; Dante Studies and Dante鈥檚 reception in the 20th and 21th centuries, Adaptation Studies, Literary Theory, Contemporary Italian Women Writers, Cultural history of post-1968 Italy, Italian counterculture in the publishing industry of the late 1960s/1970s.

Biography

Giulio鈥檚 main academic interest focuses on Dante, and especially on Dante鈥檚 reception in the 20th and 21st centuries across several media (film, literature, theatre, music). He has also focused on contemporary Italian women writers, in particular Goliarda Sapienza, Claudia Durastanti and Elena Ferrante.

His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with how Dante and his authority as 鈥渘ational鈥 poet were used during the socio-political changes occurred in Italy after the 1968 movements; in particular, by operating a intersemiotic analysis of selected novels, films, songs, and magazines of that time, his work investigated how Dante was both embraced and rejected according to the ideological goals of the several parties in question (intellectuals, filmmakers, magazine editors, musicians).

During his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he has also served as a representative for the Graduate Student Government of the School of Arts and Sciences (SASgov) and co-organized a departmental reading group (鈥淢asterpieces of Italian Literature鈥). Giulio has also served as Graduate Assistant for the American Association of Italian Studies, was a Graduate Research Fellow at Yale University and is currently co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal 鈥淏ibliotheca Dantesca鈥.

Before coming to the United States, Giulio obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Bologna (2015) and his master's degree at the Universit脿 della Svizzera italiana (2017), both times working on Dante and his immediate reception in the 14th century.

Selected Publications:

 

  • 鈥淟eonardo Sciascia and Elio Petri鈥檚 Todo Modo: Intersemiotic usesof Dante during the anni di piombo鈥 in Immagine. Note di storia del cinema: Vol. 24 (forthcoming)
     
  • 鈥淟补 Commedia in giallo: tre esempi di riscritture dantesche鈥 in Perspectives me虂die虂vales n. 44, 2023.
     
  • 鈥淐onvergence culture: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari鈥檚 staging of Dante鈥 in La mondializzazione di Dante I: Europa (Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 2022), 179-190.
     
  • 鈥淗idden authoriality in Elena Ferrante鈥檚 Neapolitan Novels鈥 in Ferrante Unframed. Authorship, Reception and Feminist Praxis in the Works of Elena Ferrante (Florence: Societa虁 editrice Fiorentina, 2021), 89-100.
     
  • 鈥淎lberto Casadei. 鈥楧ante. Storia avventurosa della Divina Commedia dalla selva oscura alla realt脿 aumentata鈥 Milan: il Saggiatore, 2020鈥, Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies: Vol. 3, 2020, 186-188.
     
  • 鈥淪taging Dante Today: A Three-Day Residency Of Teatro Delle Albe At The University Of Pennsylvania鈥, Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies: Vol. 2, 2019, 161-167