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GIADA PETERLE
Position
Ricercatrice a tempo det. art. 24 c.3 lett. B L. 240/2010
Address
VIA DEL SANTO, 26 - PADOVA
Telephone
0498274094

Giada Peterle is RTDb (fixed-term researcher) at the Department of Historical and Geographical Sciences and the Ancient World at the University of Padua, where she is the Director of the Museum of Geography. She was a Guest Lecturer at the University of Geneva in 2021 and a Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in 2020 as well as visiting scholar at the Royal Holloway University of London between 2018 and 2019. After graduating in Modern Philology, she obtained her PhD in Historical, Geographical and Anthropological Studies from the University of Padua in 2017, where she was then a research fellow from 2018 to 2019. She holds the National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor (Call D.D. 2175/2018) in the competition sector 11/B1 GEOGRAPHY.
Among her publications: Comics as a Research Practice: Drawing Narrative Geographies Beyond the Frame (Routledge 2021), Buildings as Non-Human Narrators: Between Post-phenomenological and Object-oriented Architectural Geographies (with T. Rossetto, 2021), Carto-fiction: Narrativising Maps through Creative Writing (2019).
Her geoGraphic comic publications include Pigafetta. Storia del primo viaggio intorno al mondo (BeccoGiallo, 2023), Lines (BeccoGiallo 2021), La geografia spiegata ai bambini (BeccoGiallo 2020) and Quartieri. Viaggio al centro delle periferie italiane (with A. Cancellieri, BeccoGiallo 2019).
Notices
Office hours
Monday from 9:30 to 10:30
at I ricevimenti si tengono in presenza, nella sede di via del Santo 26, I° Piano nello studio della docente, o in via telematica tramite la piattaforma Zoom.
Per il ricevimento è necessario prenotarsi inviando un'email all'indirizzo giada.peterle@unipd.it in modo da concordare se il colloquio si terrà in presenza o online.
Teachings
- LITERARY GEOGRAPHY, AA 2025 (SUP8084140)
- LITERARY GEOGRAPHY, AA 2025 (SUP8084140)
- NARRATIVE GEOGRAPHIES AND LANDSCAPE STORYTELLING, AA 2025 (SUQ4107165)
- EMERGENT ISSUES IN LANDSCAPE STUDIES, AA 2024 (SUQ0089474)
- LITERARY GEOGRAPHY, AA 2024 (SUP8084140)
- LITERARY GEOGRAPHY, AA 2024 (SUP8084140)
- EMERGENT ISSUES IN LANDSCAPE STUDIES, AA 2023 (SUQ0089474)
Publications
SELECTION OF MAIN PUBLICATIONS:
• Peterle G. 2021, "Comics as a research practice: drawing narrative geographies beyond the frame",
Routledge
• Iacoli G., Papotti D., Peterle G. e Quaquarelli L. (a cura di) 2021, Culture della mobilità. Immaginazioni, rotture, riappropriazioni del movimento, Franco Cesati Editore
• Peterle G., 2021, "Impronte narrative. Di segni su carta, mappe in cammino e sconfinamenti urbani", in Della Gala B., Frenay A., Milani F. e Quaquarelli L. (a cura di), Lasciate socchiuse le porte. Mobilità, attraversamenti, sconfinamenti, Armando Editore, pp.
• Rossetto T. e Peterle G., 2021, “Buildings as non‐human narrators: Between postphenomenological and object‐oriented architectural geographies”, Transactions of the Insitute of British Geographers, online first, pp. 1-17
•Luchetta S. e Peterle G., 2021, “Geografie letterarie della natura: appunti per un’esplorazione more than human” Rivista Geografica Italiana, CXXVIII, pp. 69-84
• Cancellieri A. e Peterle G., 2021, “Urban Research in Comics Form: Exploring Spaces, Agency and Narrative Maps in Italian Marginalized Neighbourhoods” Sociologica, 15(1), pp. 211-239
• Bertoncin M., Pase A., Peterle G. e Quatrida D., 2021, “Graphic Geography: Drawing Territories at the Po Delta (Italy)” Cultural Geographies, 28(1), pp. 19-39
• Pase A., Lo Presti L., Rossetto T. e Peterle G., 2021, “Pandemic cartographies: a conversation on mappings, imaginings and emotions, Mobilities” Mobilities, 2021, online first, pp. 1-20
• Peterle G., “Geographies Peripheriques: Recits Mobile aux Marges des Villes Italiennes Contemporaines” in Traverser. Mobilité spatiale, espace, déplacements, Quaquarelli, L., Iacoli, G., Frenay, A. (a cura di), Peter Lang, 2019
• Peterle G., “Story of a Mapping Process. The Origin, Design and Afterlives of the ‘Street Geography’ Map” J-Reading. Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography, 2(8) 2019, pp. 73-87
• Peterle G., “Carto-fiction: Narrativising Maps through Creative Writing” Social & Cultural Geography, 20(8), 2019, pp. 1070-1093
• Peterle G., “Moving Beyond Venice. Literary Landscapes of Movement in Northern Italy’s ‘Diffused City’” in Literary Second Cities, Ameel, L., Finch, J., Salmela, M. (a cura di), Palgrave Macmillan, 2017
• Peterle G., “Comic Book Cartographies: A Cartocentred Reading of 'City of Glass', the Graphic Novel”
Cultural Geographies, 24(1), 2017, pp. 43-68
• Peterle G. e Visentin F., “Performing the literary map: ‘Towards the river mouth’ following Gianni Celati” Cultural Geographies, 24(3), 2017, pp. 472-485
• Peterle G., “Moving Literature: the Car as a ‘Mobile Chronotope’ in Don DeLillo’s ‘Cosmopolis’”
Rivista Geografica Italiana, 123(3), 2016, pp. 281-300
• Peterle G., “Attraversamenti (Peri)urbani: Una Lettura Geocritica Mobile di ‘Riportando Tutto a Casa’ di Nicola Lagioia e ‘L’Ubicazione del Bene’ di Giorgio Falco”
Semestrale di Studi e Ricerche di Geografia, 28(2), 2016, pp. 91-105
• Peterle G., “Teaching Cartography with Comics: Some Examples from BeccoGiallo’s Graphic Novel Series” J-Reading. Journal of Research and Didactics in Geography, 1(4), 2015, pp. 69-78
OTHER CREATIVE PUBLICATIONS (COMICS AND ILLUSTRATION)
• Peterle, G., Lines. Moving with stories of public transport in Turku (BeccoGiallo, 2021)
• Peterle, G., La geografia spiegata ai bambini (BeccoGiallo, 2020)
• Cancellieri, A.e Peterle, G. (a cura di), Quartieri. Viaggio al centro delle periferie italiane (BeccoGiallo, 2019)
Research Area
• Literary Geography, Literary Cartography and Narrative Geographies
• Representations of urban landscapes
• Creative Geographies, Art-based Methods, Research-Art collaborations and Geohumanities
• Geography and Comics, Cartography and Comics
• Literary Mobilities e Graphic Mobilities
• Flânerie, walking and other mobile methods
• Representations, Cultures and Practices of Mobility
• Landscape Storytelling
• Narrative geographies of home
Thesis proposals
Possible areas of interest for your thesis:
• Literary and Narrative Geographies
• Representations and Practices of Mobility
• Creative Geographies
• Geography and Comics
• Narrative geographies of home