Phd in CLASSICAL AND MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

email: elisabetta.mondello@uniroma1.it
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building: Lettere e Filisofia
room: studio B piano 4 (ex piano 3)

Full Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature; 2000-2011 she taught also Sociology of literature; actually member of the PhD Committee in 'Italian Studies', previously member of the PhD Committee in ‘Documentary, philological, linguistic and literary sciences’; since 2007 Director of a level 1 Masters in ‘Publishing, journalism and cultural management’.
One of her main lines of research is the analysis of twentieth century cultural periodicals. These studies include the following books: Gli anni delle riviste. Le riviste letterarie dal 1945 agli anni Ottanta (1985) (The Age of Magazines. Literary Magazines from 1945 to the 80ies), with a list of the main magazines, and Roma futurista. I periodici dell’avanguardia nella Roma negli anni Venti (1990) (Futurism in Rome. Avant-garde Journals in Rome in the Twenties). La nuova italiana. La donna nella stampa e nella culture del ventennio (1987) (The New Italian Woman. Women in the Press and in the Culture of the Twenties) deals with female models and any writing produced by women during the Fascist period.
Her work also includes studies on authors of the second half of the century ( besides essays and articles, a biography of Italo Calvino in 1990), on didactic instruments for Italian studies (I mezzi didattici, 1992), on journalism and mass consumption. In recent years her studies have focused on the analysis of the emerging narrative trends, and she coordinated a group research on the nineties and the cultural consumption of the Italians. In principio fu Tondelli. Letteratura, merci, televisione nella narrativa degli anni novanta (In the Beginning there was Tondelli. Literature, Merchandise, Television in Narrative Literature in the Nineties) was published in 2007 and she edited the collection of essays La narrative italiana negli anni Novanta (2004) (Italian Narrative Literature in the Nineties).
In 2004 Elisabetta Mondello set up “Roma Noir” (Rome Crime Fiction), a project that focuses on the success of Italian crime fiction in the last decade, with an annual congress devoted to this genre (novels, films, comics, soap operas) which is held at the Facolta’ di Scienze Umanistiche and also involves the publication of essays, meetings with authors and journalists, a literary competition for unpublished stories and a web site full of reviews and interviews open to students (www.romanoir.it). The results of this line of research were edited by Prof Mondello and published as follows: Roma Noir 2005. Tendenze di un nuovo genere metropolitano (2005) (Roma Noir 2005. The Trends of a New Metropolitan Genre); Roma Noir 2006. Modelli a confronto: L’Italia, l’Europa, l’America (2006) (Roma Noir 2006. Comparing Models: Italy, Europe, America); Roma Noir 2007. Luoghi e nonluoghi nel romanzo nero contemporaneo (2008) (Roma Noir 2007. Places and Non-places in Contemporary Crime Fiction); Roma Noir 2008. “Hannibal the Cannibal c’est moi?, Realismo e finzione nel romanzo noir italiano (2008) ( Roma Noir 2008. “Hannibal the Cannibal c’est moi?” Realism and Make-believe in Italian Crime Fiction); Roma Noir 2009. L’amore ai tempi del noir (2009) (Roma Noir 2009. Love in the Time of Crime Fiction). Roma Noir 2010. Scritture nere: narrative di genere, New Italian Epic o post-noir? (2010) (Roma Noir 2010. Crime fiction: New Italian Epic or Post-crime Fiction ; Roma Noir 2011. Le citta’ nelle scritture nere (2011) (Roma Noir 2011. Cities in Crime Fiction). In 2010 the first five essays in the Roma Noir series were published in a revisited edition in Crimini e misfatti. La narrative noir degli anni Duemila (Crimes and Misdeeds. Crime Fiction Narrative in the Last Decade).Taking up the line of research in the press, in 2012 he published a volume in the press of the last century, L'avventura delle riviste (Trends of magazines. Periodicals and literary newspapers of the twentieth century). The most recent studies are dedicated to the character in the contemporary novel (in 2016 she published L'età difficile, The Difficult Age: Images of Teenagers in Contemporary Italian Fiction) and to the urban space to which she dedicated an essay (In Rome with the writers), in progress printing. In 2018 she published Il 900 e oltre (The twentieth century and beyond).