Phd in DOCUMENTATION STUDIES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

email: monica.storini@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649913185
building: Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, III piano
room: Studio C

Monica Cristina Storini has a PhD in Italian Studies, was lecturer of Italian literature and Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” – Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia- Literature and Philosophy Faculty), teacher of Theory and History of literary genres at the Literature and Philosophy Faculty in Arezzo (Università degli Studi di Siena). At present, she is Associate Professor of Italian Literature (L-FIL-LET/10) at the Faculty of Lettere e Filosofia of the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and teaches Italian Literature and Theory of Literature. She is essentially interested in Middle Ages and Renaissance narrative forms, in their typological and evolutive structure, in theoretical and methodological matters linked with Italian literary history, with women writings, with didactics and, generally speaking, with cultural education. According to these matters of interest, considered for the first time during the realization of her degree thesis, focused on the narrative structure of Decameron adventure tales (academic years 1984-1985, Faculty of Literature and Philosophy – Università “La Sapienza”, Roma), she went deep into the adventure gender typology, analyzing a wide range of vernacular prose texts, written in Italy in the 13th and 14th century, among them laic and hagiographic tales. She published essays on the didactical value of Decameron and on problems linked with the voice and perspective of author in the “adventure” tale. On this issue was focused a study, realized through a postdoctoral scholarship concerning Studies of literary and linguistic history and Italian philology. This research was used for the creation of an essay, entitled Lo spazio dell’avventura. Peripezia e racconto nel medioevo (The space of adventure. Adventure and tales in Middle Ages), La Nuova Italia, Firenze, 1997. Then she focused her studies on problems concerning the typology and types of vulgarization in the 16th century.
On more contemporary theoretical matters, on hyper textual practices and on contemporary narrative (Bontempelli, De Céspedes, La Capria, Santacroce, Ballestra, Campo) she focused her essays which are part of the book, entitled L’esperienza problematica. Generi e scrittura nella narrativa italiana del Novecento (The problematic experience. Genders and writing in Italian Narrative in the 20th century), Carocci, Roma, 2005, in which are included some analysis dedicated to Fausta Cialente and Anna Banti. At present she is working on the theorical and literary aspects concerning women who write noir novels.
With the compilation of about six hundred items, she contributed to Gli autori, Dizionario bio-bibliografico della Letteratura Italiana (The author. Bio-bibliographic dictionary of Italian literature), directed by Alberto Asor Rosa (Torino, Einaudi, 1990-91, voll.2) and to Dizionario della letteratura italiana del Novecento (Dictionary of Italian Literature in the 20th century) (ivi, 1992). She took part in the scientific editorial committee of the volumes Letteratura italiana. Le opere (Italian literature. The works), directed by Alberto Asor Rosa and edited by Einaudi, Torino. In collaboration with Lucinda Spera, she developed the didactical part and the anthological choice for Storia europea della letteratura italiana (European history of Italian literature), A. Asor Rosa, L. Spera, M.C. Storini, Le Monnier, Firenze, 2008.
She is member of several research groups working at national and international level, which have administrative office at “La Sapienza”; she was vice director of the Department of Philological, Linguistic and Literary Studies (Università “La Sapienza”). She is member of the editing office of Bulletin d’Italianistica (Italianistic Bulletin), directed by Professor Alberto Asor Rosa and scientific advisor of Ghena, a publisher specialized in Gender Studies. She was member of the Teachers College of the doctorate in Women Writings Studies; of the doctorate in Philology, Linguistic and Literature; and of the international doctorate in Gender Studies. At present she is member of the Teachers College of the doctorate in Documentary, Philological, Linguistics and Literary Sciences.