Professor G. Bonsaver
Guido Bonsaver, Ph.D. (University of Reading)
Professor of Italian Cultural History. Fellow of Pembroke College
also tutor at Merton, Queen's, and Wadham College
Address: Pembroke College, Oxford OX1 1DW
Email: guido.bonsaver@pmb.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 276456
Fax: 01865 276418
Research
20th century Italian culture: particularly interested in the relationship between political history and narrative. Currently working on censorship during the Fascist regime and on immigration in contemporary Italian cinema.
Co-ordinator of the interdisciplinary network "Italian Studies at Oxford" (ISO): http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/ .
PI of the ISO research project "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative" (Leverhulme Trust). http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/research/migration_project
Collaborates on Italian cinema with "Sight & Sound" (BFI) and BBC World Service.
A video of Guido discussing his research in modern Italian culture is available at:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/humanities/humanities_video.html
Teaching
C19th to contemporary Italian history, literature and cinema.
Graduate Teaching
MSt in Medieval and Modern Languages. MSt in Film Aesthetics
Publications
Books:
Mussolini censore: Storie di letteratura, dissenso e ipocrisie (Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2013)
Vita e omicidio di Gaetano Pilati: 1881-1925 (Florence, Cesati, 2010)Elio Vittorini: Letteratura in tensione (Florence, Cesati, 2008)
Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy (Toronto University Press, 2007) - American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize for 2007
Kaos: Luigi Pirandello e i fratelli Taviani (Palermo, L'Epos, 2007)
Elio Vittorini: The Writer and the Written (Leeds, Northern Universities Press, 2000)
Il mondo scritto: Forme e ideologia nella narrativa di Italo Calvino (Turin, Tirrenia, 1995)
Edited books:
With Martin McLaughlin and Franca Pellegrini, Sinergie narrative: Cinema e letteratura nell'Italia contemporanea (Florence, Cesati, 2008)
With Robert Gordon, Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th Century Italy (Oxford, Legenda, 2005)
Chapters and articles:
'Romano Bilenchi e la fascistissima Firenze', in Riem Natale and Csillaghy Andrea (eds.), "Un tremore di foglie": Studi in ricordo di Anna Panicali, FEUU: Udine 2011, pp. 1-11
'The aesthetics of documentary film-making and Giallo a Milano: An interview with film director Sergio Basso and sociologist Daniele Cologna', The Italianist, 31.2 (2011), pp. 293-31
'Themes and Challenges for Italian Film Studies', The Italianist, 30.2 (2010), 287-289
'Who's Shooting Whom? Screening Immigration in Contemporary Italian Cinema', in: L. Lepschy and A. Ledgeway (eds.): Into and Out of Italy: Lingua e cultura della migrazione italiana (Perugia, Guerra, 2010), 87-98
'Fascism and the Italian Intelligentsia’', in: R. Bosworth (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Fascism (Oxford University Press, 2009), 109-126
'Conversazione in Sicilia e la censura fascista', in: Il demone dell\'anticipazione: Cultura, letteratura, editoria in Elio Vittorini (Milano: Fondazione Mondadori, 2009), 13-30
'Cent`anni di Elio Vittorini', La Rivista dei Libri, 19.3 (2009), 31-34
'Elio Vittorini e i fertili fallimenti del dopoguerra', in: R. Bertone (ed.), Un secolo con Vittorini (Turin: Trauben, 2009), 9-18
'Dall'uomo al divo: Un'intervista con Paolo Sorrentino', The Italianist, 29.2 (2009), 325-337
'Mussolinijev fašizem, literarna cenzura in Vatikan (Mussolini’s Fascism, Literary Censorship and the Vatican)', Primerjalna Književnost, 31.1 (2008), 43-54
'Dalle novelle ai film: un’intervista con i fratelli Taviani', in: La novella di Pirandello: Dramma film musica fumetto (Pesaro, 2007), 263-272
'Vittore Branca e la fascistissima Firenze', The Italianist, 26.2 (2006), 34-47
'Raccontare "all'americana": Io non ho paura tra autodiegesi letteraria e soggettiva cinematografica', in: Bertoni R. (ed.) Narrativa italiana recente/Recent Italian Fiction (Turin, 2005), 53-73
'Fascist Censorship on Literature and the Case of Elio Vittorini', Modern Italy, 8.2 (2003), 165-186
'‘Sconcertante ma accettabile': il progetto Gulliver e la redazione italiana ', Riga, 21 (2003), 280-292
'Città senza tempo: cronologia 'debole' e tracce benjaminiane in "Le città invisibili" di Italo Calvino', Italianistica, 52 (2002), 48-69
'The Egocentric Cassandra of the Left: Representations of Politics in the Films of Nanni Moretti', The Italianist, 20-21 (2001-2002), 65-88
'La carne, la morte e il chewing gum nella narrativa di Alessandro Baricco', Nuova prosa, 27 (2000), 56-62
'Calvino e l’ultimo Vittorini: Paternità e pratiche letterarie', Proteo, 5 (1999), 35-44
'Vittorini’s American Translations: Parallels, Borrowings and Betrayals ', Italian Studies, 53 (1998), 68-97
'Calvino tra Budapest e Parigi (1956-1966) ', in: Italo Calvino: Le défi au labyrinthe (Caen, 1998), 45-60
'Un Gran Lombardo sbarca a Milano: ‘Il negozio di stoffe’ (con un inedito di E. Vittorini)', in: In amicizia. Essays in Honour of Giulio Lepschy (The Italianist, 1997), 45-65
'Dialect, Culture and Politics: The Northern League(s)', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, 4 (1996), 97-107
'Cities of the Imagination: Traces of Italo Calvino in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction', The Italianist, 15 (1995), 208-226
'Il menabò, Calvino and the Avanguardie: Some Observations on the Literary Debate in the Sixties', Italian Studies, 50 (1995), 46-67
'Il Calvino semiotico: dal romanzo naturalistico all opera come macrotesto', The Italianist, 14 (1994), 160-194
'George Orwell ai microfoni della B.B.C.', Quaderni di lingua e letteratura, 15 (1990), 25-41