Dr V De Gasperin

Senior Instructor in Italian
College Lecturer at Exeter College

Research

Anna Maria Ortese (1914-1998); Vivian Lamarque (1946-);  Giuseppe Baretti (1719-1789); Benvenuto Italiano’s Il Passaggiere / The Passenger (1612); the history of  teaching and learning Italian as a foreign language in Britain.

Teaching

Italian language; Prelims poetry and prose (Paper III and IV); Modern Italian literature (post 1750; Paper VIII); Modern prescribed authors (Paper  XI); History of the Italian language and the questione della lingua (Paper IV); Italian women writers 1945 to the present day (Paper XII).

Postgraduate teaching (Master of Studies): Fantastic literature; Anna Maria Ortese

Publications

BOOKS

Loss and the Other in the Visionary Work of Anna Maria Ortese (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014)

(Ed.) Ciò che potea la lingua nostra: Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper, The Italianist’s Special Supplement, 30 (2010)

Lezioni di lingua (collection of poetry, prefaced by Vivian Lamarque) (Como: Lietocolle, 2003)

 

ARTICLES

‘Appunti su Il Monaciello di Napoli di Anna Maria Ortese’, Esperienze letterarie, 36.4 (2011), pp. 77–103.

‘“Protesta nello stile”: appunti sulla lingua ne L’Iguana di Anna Maria Ortese’, in Ciò che potea la lingua nostra: Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper, ed. by Vilma De Gasperin, The Italianist’s Special Supplement, 30 (2010), pp. 237–56.

‘Introduction’, in Ciò che potea la lingua nostra. Lectures and Essays in Memory of Clara Florio Cooper, ed. by Vilma De Gasperin, The Italianist’s Special Supplement series, 30 (2010), pp. 7–11.

‘The ship and the sea in the work of Anna Maria Ortese: from autobiographical experience to literary metaphor’, The Italianist, 30.1 (2010), pp. 81–98.

‘Appunti sulla citazione ne Il porto di Toledo di Anna Maria Ortese’, Esperienze letterarie, 34.1 (2009), pp. 57–77.

‘Dialogo e intertestualità in “Questa Quieta Polvere” di Vivian Lamarque’, in La Citazione. Atti del XXXI Convegno Interuniversitario (Bressanone/Brixen, 11–13 luglio 2003). Quaderni del Circolo Filologico Linguistico Padovano, ed. by Gianfelice Peron (Padova: Esedra, 2009), pp. 589–608.

 

‘Paura e malinconia: riflessioni su “Folletto a Genova” di Anna Maria Ortese’, Trasparenze, Supplement of Quaderni di Poesia, ed. by Giorgio Devoto (Genoa: San Marco dei Giustiniani, Spring 2008), pp. 27–42.

 

 

 

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