Fabio Camilletti

College of Arts and Law

About

I did my first degree in English literature jointly at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and St John's College in Oxford, where I spent my fourth year as a visiting student (2001-02). Afterwards I took a Masters in Comparative literature at the University of Paris 4-Sorbonne (2002-03), and in 2006 did a PhD, jointly supervised by the Scuola Normale and the Sorbonne.

My specialism is Nineteenth-century literature from a comparative point of view. In the past years, I have mostly worked on the Italian, English and French cultural domains, especially focusing on the relations between literature and visual arts, as well as on theoretic intersections between literature and psychoanalysis. My first dissertation and my PhD thesis inquired into the metamorphoses of Dante's 'Vita Nova' in the Nineteenth century. In 2005 I published a book on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's reception of Dante, and I am currently completing the final draft of my second book, to be titled 'Dante's Book of Youth. The Vita Nova and the Nineteenth Century (1840-1907)', which has recently been accepted for publication by igrs books (London).

For the period 2008-10 I am a fellow in Literature, Art History and Psychoanalysis at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (http://www.ici-berlin.org/).

Since 2007 I have also undertaken a second PhD program at the University of Birmingham, where I am currently working on a thesis on history, memory and the use of quotations in Giacomo Leopardi's 'Zibaldone' (supervisors: prof. Michael Caesar, prof. Franco D'Intino). This research allows me to approach Leopardi from a comparative perspective, but also to re-discuss the concept itself of 'quotation' as it has been defined by literary theory. Moreover, I have the opportunity of collaborating with the 'Zibaldone project' carried by the Leopardi Centre at the Department of Italian Studies (http://www.leopardi.bham.ac.uk/index.shtml).

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