Phd in CLASSICAL AND MODERN ITALIAN STUDIES

email: francesca.medaglia@uniroma1.it
phone: (+39) 06 49913235

room: Studio 9

Francesca Medaglia is currently Assistant Professor (RTDB) in Comparative Literature (SSD: L-FIL-LET/14) at Sapienza - University of Rome. She holds her PhD in Italian Studies/Comparative Literature with a thesis entitled 'Co-authored literature' at Sapienza - University of Rome, where she holds also her bachelor degree in “Comparative Literature”, with a thesis entitled 'Poetics of Relation in the Archipelago of Cape Verde' and where she has obtained the master degree in “Literature and Language. Italian and European Studies”, with a thesis entitled 'Migrant Women: Writing the feminine'.
She was at UCL (University College London) as a 6-month Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei postdoctoral scholarship holder, in order to carry out research at CenTraS and SELCS as Affiliate Academic. As the prestigious funding body in Italy, the Accademia supports her project on 20th-century Italian authors entitled "Allegory and Psychology in Multi-authorship Writing. The cases of 'Fuoco grande' by C. Pavese and B. Garufi and 'Pelle d’asino' by A. Giuliani and E. Pagliarani". She was at Fondazione Giorgio Cini – Centro Branca (Venice) as a 1-month Postdoctoral scholarship holder with a project entitled "The collaboration among artists and the analysis of the Botta Fonds to investigate the literary debate at the beginning of the 20th-century". She was collaborating with the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei for the Lincei’s General Catalogue and the Annuario.
Her interests are mainly directed towards the problems of migration, a topic of discussion that she has also been working on during the training course DITALS II (Didactics of teaching the Italian language to foreign students) held at Sapienza - University of Rome. Her current research is directed more specifically towards gender studies, particularly the migration of women and towards co-authored literature and collective writings. She has published three books: "La scrittura a quattro mani" (PensaMultimedia, Lecce-Brescia, 2014), "Asimmetrie ibride nella critica di Antonino Contiliano" (CFR, Piateda, 2014), "Il ritmo dei tempi in Antonino Contiliano" (Empirìa, Rome, 2014), and 'Autore/personaggio: interferenze, complicazioni e scambi di ruolo. Autori e personaggi complessi nella contemporaneità letteraria e transmediale' (Lithos, Roma, 2020). She has lectured at national and international conferences.