Phd in CLASSICAL AND MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

email: cecilia.bello@uniroma1.it
phone: 06 49913159
building: Lettere, quarto piano, Dip. Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali
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Cecilia Bello
Curriculum vitae

Cecilia Bello graduated in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at «Sapienza» - University of Rome. where in 2001/2002 she obtained her Ph.D. in History of Women's Scriptures, dedicating her research to women writers Futurists.
In 2003 she obtained a grant from the Paul Getty Foundation in Los Angeles for research.
She has been for four years (2011-2015) an assignee in the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies.
In 2012 she obtained the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor.
Since 2016 she is a fixed-term researcher of type B (RtdB - tenure track with recruitment as Associate Professor in 2019) at "La Sapienza", Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies.
She is part of the Academic Board of the Doctoral School in Italian Studies at the University «La Sapienza».

Cecilia Bello focused her research interests on twentieth century Italian literature, giving particular attention to the first and second avant-gardes.

From the early years of 2000 she collaborates with the «Sapienza» Archive of the Twentieth Century, for which she has reorganized and inventoried the papers of Gianna Manzini (see the first part of the archive of Gianna Manzini published by Carocci in 2006) and collaborated with some texts in the catalog Gianna Manzini (curated by Francesca Bernardini Napoletano and Giamila Yehya, Fondazione Arnoldo Mondadori, 2005).
The philological attention to the twentieth century literary texts led her to attend, in addition to the Paul Getty Foundation in Los Angeles, other archives, including, among others, the Luigi Nono Foundation in Venice, the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, the Cotemporaneo Bonsanti Archive in Florence, the Vincenzo Agnetti Foundation in Milan, the Baruchello Foundation in Formello and Rome, the private Archives of Nanni Balestrini in Rome.

She has published, among others, studies on Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Luigi Nono, Edoardo Sanguineti and Luciano Berio, Giorgio Manganelli, Nanni Balestrini, Antonio Porta, Giulia Niccolai, Paolo Volponi and Luigi Malerba. In more recent years she studied the Italian literature of the First World War and wrote essays on Bonaventura Tecchi and Angelo Rognoni.

From 2017 Cecilia Bello is on the scientific committee of the Giuseppe Ungaretti Foundation - Roma Sapienza.

For years she has been invited to national and international conferences on the Italian literature of the twentieth century and on visual poetry. In more recent years he organized, in first person or with the collaboration of colleagues, the following conferences at «La Sapienza»: «Noi si sta per il Novecento». First day of study and comparison between Italy and Japan. Research in Italian literary archives (scientific committee: Bello, Bernardini, Doi, Wada), February21, 2018; Luigi Malerba (scientific committee: Bello, Bernardini, Carlino, Cirillo, Muzzioli), May 14-15, 2018; Nati altrove (scientific committee: Barenghi, Bello, Bernardini, Cirillo, Cortellessa, Dolfi, Frabotta, Leonelli, Montefoschi), February 6-7, 2019.