Dr M. Gragnolati
Manuele Gragnolati, M.A. (M.A. University of Paris IV Sorbonne, Ph.D. Columbia University)
Reader in Italian, Fellow of Somerville College
Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall and St Catherine's College
Address: Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HD
Email: manuele.gragnolati@some.ox.ac.uk
Research
Manuele Gragnolati studied Classical Philology, Medieval Studies and Italian Literature in Pavia, Paris and New York. Before joining the Oxford faculty in 2003, he taught Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. A significant part of his research focuses on Dante and medieval literature and culture, especially on the relationship between identity and corporeality in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century eschatological representations, on medieval understandings of physical pain and on concepts of desire in the Middle Ages. He collaborated with Teodolinda Barolini on an edition of Dante's Rime and published essays on medieval and modern authors from Bonvesin da la Riva and Guido Cavalcanti to Cesare Pavese and Elsa Morante. He is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Identità dantesche, which explores the intersections between language, textuality and subjectivity in Dante and authors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Elsa Morante, Primo Levi, and Giorgio Pressburger who have engaged with Dante in the late twentieth- and the early twenty-first centuries. He serves as Advisor to the Director at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.
Teaching
Medieval Italian literature, especially lyric poetry of the thirteenth century, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio; the development of the Italian sonnet; Elsa Morante; Pier Vittorio Tondelli.
Selected Publications
Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations and Rewritings in the Twentieth- and Twenty-first Centuries, eds Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart (Berlin and Vienna: Turia & Kant, Forthcoming 2010)
Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, eds Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010)
Aspects of the Perfomative in Medieval Culture, eds Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum (Berlin-New York: de Gruyter, 2010)
The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s ‘Aracoeli’, eds Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna (Oxford: Legenda, 2009)
Dante, Rime giovanili e della ‘Vita Nuova’, ed. Teodolinda Barolini; with notes by Manuele Gragnolati (Milan: Rizzoli, 2009)
Il corpo glorioso. Teologie e rappresentazioni della resurrezione, eds Claudio Bernardi, Carla Bino and Manuele Gragnolati (Pisa: Giardini, 2006)
Experincing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
Il corpo passionato, eds Carla Bino and Manuele Gragnolati. Special Issue of Comunicazioni Sociali, 25 n.s., 2 (2003)
‘Re-writing Dante after Freud and the Shoah: Giorgio Pressburger’s Nel regno oscuro’, in Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations and Rewritings in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, eds Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart (Berlin and Vienna: Turia und Kant, Forthcoming 2010)
‘(In)Corporeality, Language, Performance from the Vita Nuova to the Commedia’, in Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, eds Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp 211-22
‘Riscrivere Dante in un’altra lingua. Conversazione con Giorgio Pressburger su Nel regno oscuro’, in Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, eds Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp. 249-66; with Emma Bond and Laura Lepschy
‘Dante after Wittgenstein: “Aspetto” Language, and Subjectivity from Convivio to Paradiso’, in Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, eds Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp. 223-48; with Sara Fortuna
‘Trasformazioni e assenze: la performance della Vita nova e le figure di Dante e Cavalcanti’, L’Alighieri 35 (2010), pp 5-23. Also in Dante the Lyrical and Ethical Poet. Dante etico e lirico, eds Zygmunt Baranski and Martin McLaughlin (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp. 74-91
‘Authorship and Performance in Dante’s Vita nova’, in Aspects of the Perfomative in Medieval Culture, eds Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum (Berlin-New York: de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 123-40
‘Between Affection and Discipline: Exploring Linguistic Tensions from Dante to Aracoeli’, in The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s ‘Aracoeli’, eds Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna (Oxford: Legenda, 2009), pp. 8-19; with Sara Fortuna.
‘Allattamento e origine del linguaggio tra la Commedia dantesca e Aracoeli di Elsa Morante’, in Parole di donne, ed. Francesca Maria Dovetto (Milano: Aracne, 2009), pp. 271-303; with Sara Fortuna.
‘“Attaccando al suo capezzolo le mie labbra ingorde”: corpo, linguaggio e soggettività da Dante ad Aracoeli di Elsa Morante’, Nuova corrente, 55 (2008), pp. 85-123; with Sara Fortuna.
‘Nostalgia in Heaven: Embraces, Affection and Identity in Dante’s Comedy’, in Dante and the Human Body, eds John Barnes and Jennifer Petrie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 91-111
‘Gluttony and the Antrhopology of Pain in Dante’s Inferno and Purgatorio’, in History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person, eds Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 238-50
‘La Scrittura rossa, il Purgatorio e la forza del dolore: per un dialogo tra Bonvesin da la Riva e Dante’, in Dialoghi con Dante. Riscritture e ricodificazioni della Commedia, eds Erminia Ardissino and Sabrina Stroppa (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007), pp. 17-38
‘La scrittura, l’amore e la morte. Per una lettura leopardiana dei Dialoghi con Leucò di Pavese’, Testo, 52 (2006), pp. 59-75
‘Dolore come gioia. Trasformarsi nel Purgatorio di Dante’, Psiche, 4 (2003), pp. 111-26; with Christoph Holzhey.
‘From Plurality to (Near) Unicity of Forms: Embryology in Purgatorio 25’, in Dante for the New Millennium, eds Teodolinda Barolini and Wayne Storey (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), pp. 192-210
‘From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin da la Riva’s Book of the Three Scriptures’, in Last Things: Death and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, eds Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 83-97
‘Marinetti e la lingua francese alle soglie del Futurismo: l’eclettismo ambiguo de La ville charnelle’, Revue des Études Italiennes, t. XLV, 1-2 (1999), pp. 115-132
‘Love, Lust and Avarice: Leodilla between Dante and Ovid’, in Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America, eds Jo Ann Cavallo and Charles Ross (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998), pp. 151-174.
‘Giovanni Pascoli: Varianti “conviviali” (1895-1905)’, Revue des Études Italiennes, t. XLI, 1-4 (1995), pp. 133-156.