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Maria Maddalena Parlati

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Position

Professoressa Ordinaria

Structure

Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari - DISLL

Address

VIA E. VENDRAMINI, 13 - PADOVA

Telephone

049-8279662

E-mail

marilena.parlati@unipd.it

I am Full Professor of Literatures in English.

My main areas of research are nineteenth-century material culture and the novel, interescetions between literatures and the science in both nineteenth-century and contemporary culture, thing theory. I am also working on material culture studies, corporeality and the complexities of embodiment, publishing on more contemporary issues and authors (Coetzee, Ishiguro, Kureishi, Crace, Figes).


I sat on the Executive Board of AISCLI (2016-2021)
I have been Presidente di Corso di laurea in Lingue, Letterature e Mediazione culturale (Head of the BA Degree course in Languages, Literatures and Cultural Mediation), October 2016-October 2020.

I am finishing a book on Complex Embodiment, which focusses on disability studies and the representation of bodies in contemporary Anglophone fiction.
I have recently edited a special issue of Prospero (Dec. 2015), dedicated to 'Unforgiving Memory'.


My teaching activities have included, among others, advanced courses (MA, magistrali) in cultural studies, trauma fiction, Romantic poetry, critical disability studies.

Notices

Dear all,
my office hours are published on the moodle page 'Laureandi Prof. Parlati'
https://ssu.elearning.unipd.it/course/view.php?id=14062

Generally on Thursdays at 9.30, but pleae check the moodle

Please, reserve your slot if you need to talk to me (and delete in case you cannot make it, or write to inform me, thanks)

Polo Beato Pellegrino, Room 48, two floors up from the caffetteria

No zoom meeting unless specially motivated
https://unipd.zoom.us/j/83816813378


Please remember to always check this page




Office hours

  • at studio 48
    Per cortesia, prenotatevi sempre sulla pagina moodle 'Laureandi Prof. Parlati' https://ssu.elearning.unipd.it/mod/reservation/view.php?id=435371

  • Thursday from 9:00 to 11:00
    at studio n. 48 Polo Beato Pellegrino
    ricevimenti marzo: 7, 13, 20, 27 ore 9.00

Teachings

Publications

Books, edited volumes, critical editions

1. M. Parlati, Complex Embodiment. Fiction and Pathography in Contemporary Anglophone Culture, in fase di conclusione
2. M. Parlati, ‘Closeted and Unbound’: Women Writing (in) the Nineteenth Century, in stesura
3. M. Parlati, J. Pugliese (eds), Aftermaths. Vulnerable Times, Vanishing Places, Toxic Erasures, Special Issue, From the European South, 10, 2022
4. Con R. Coronato e A. Petrina (eds) and introduction, Thinking out of the Box, Atti convegno AIA 2019, Padova University Press, 2021
5. E. Federici, M. Parlati (eds), The Body Metaphor, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2018
6. E. Gaskell, Bran e altre poesie, introduzione e cura di Marilena Parlati, Roma, Croci, 2016
7. M. Parlati (ed.), “Unforgiving Memory. Dynamics, Rhetorics, Paradoxa in Literary Representations of Trauma”, volume tematico di Prospero, XX, dicembre 2015
8. M. Parlati, Oltre il moderno. Orrori e tesori dell'Ottocento inglese, Milano, Mimesis, 2012
9. M. Parlati, M. Calbi (eds), European Journal of English Studies: ‘Matter and Material Culture’, Vol. 15, n. 1, 2011
10. M. Parlati, M. Coppola, E. Federici (eds), Locating Subjects. Views on Identity and Difference from the Early Modern to the Late Modern Age, Roma, Aracne, 2009
11. N. Daly, M. Parlati (eds), Textus. The Cultural Object. Maps, Memories, Icons, Vol. I, Genova, Tilgher, 2005
12. M. Parlati, Infezione dell'arte e paralisi della memoria nelle tragedie di John Webster, Napoli, Liguori, 1999
13. M. Parlati (ed.), L'ansia del teatro: saggi su John Webster, Napoli, Intercontinentalia, 1999
14. Edizione critica e traduzione di T. Tuke, A Discourse against Painting - Contro il trucco (1616), Napoli, Liguori, 1998

Chapters in books
- “Una tossica salvezza. HG Wells e la modernità nucleare”, in R. Malagoli (a cura di), E.T.L. ExtraTerritorial Literatures: le sfide narrative della Science Fiction, Padova, Padova University Press, 2022 (in bozze)
- “Australian Modernisms Strike Back, or Still Harping on ‘Margins’”, R. Gefter, K. Pizzi, eds, Peripheral Modernisms, London, Palgrave, in print
- “Detective senza memoria”, in GialloMa. Polimorfismo e ibridazioni del poliziesco contemporaneo, Città di Castello (PG), I Libri di Emil, 2022, pp. 23-28
- “Serie ‘a colori’. Crimini, repliche, fantasmi del ‘pericolo giallo’ nella cultura popolare del Novecento”, in M. Piva (a cura di), PARAdigmi identitari e LETTERATURA popolare, Città di Castello (PG), I Libri di Emil, 2021, pp. 25-42
- “‘The Central Man in the World’: echi di Dante (e di Beatrice) nella cultura vittoriana”, in Risonanze III. La memoria dei testi dal Medioevo a oggi, a cura di C. Giordano, Napoli, Liguori, 2020, pp. 215-227
- “Auras and Haunting Libraries. Marie Corelli's Affair with Stratford”, in M. Minier, M. Pennacchia (eds), Shakespeare and Tourism. Place, Memory and Participation, ed. by Marta Minier and Maddalena Pennacchia, Napoli, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2019, pp. 39-58
- Con E. Federici, “Introduction”, in E. Federici, M. Parlati (a cura di), The Body Metaphor, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2018, pp. 7-15
- “The Body in Question. On Pathography and Testimony in Contemporary Anglophone Culture”, in E. Federici, M. Parlati (a cura di), The Body Metaphor, Perugia, Morlacchi, 2018, pp. 127-139
- “Dying in the Desert: Jim Crace and the Life of Jesus in Quarantine”, in T. Vegge, F. etc.

Thesis proposals

I can tutor theses and dissertations on nineteenth-century culture and literature, on post-colonial discourses, on contemporary British literature, trauma studies, disability studies, popular culture, crime fiction.

The following are just examples of areas of thesis research I have been interested in tutoring:



general areas:
Victorian culture and literature
Literature and science
Australian literature and culture
Global Modernisms
War poetry
complex embodiments and disability
Fiction and art on nuclearity
Crime fiction

Specific writers (but other writers may also be suggested):

Mary Shelley
H. Rider Haggard and Victorian adventure fiction
Thomas Hardy
Wilkie Collins
H. G. Wells
Bram Stoker
Joseph Conrad
Virginia Woolf
Graham Greene

I. McEwan
A. S. Byatt
K. Ishiguro