1997 MASTER OF ARTS IN WOMEN AND LITERATURE (with distinction) Department of English Literature. University of Hull (U.K). Dissertation title: The écriture féminine of a "Hideous Progeny": Marge Piercy's He, She and It as an Intertext of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Tutor: Professor Patsy Stoneman.

1997 NOISE. NETWORK OF INTERDISCIPLINARY WOMEN'S STUDIES IN EUROPE. Advanced Introductory Post-Graduate Course. European Women's Studies from a Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Mapping new spaces - fighting old boundaries? Feminist interventions in contemporary culture and society. Intensive Summer Course University of Dortmund & Bielefeld (Germany). 18 August - 6 September.

1997-2000 Research Assistant for the Women's Studies Seminar University of Bologna (Course coordinators: Prof. Vita Fortunati and Dr. Rita Monticelli).

1998 Auditor to graduate seminars of the Dept of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto (Canada). Courses on Postmodernism (Prof. Linda Hutcheon) and Historiographical Fiction (Prof. Lubomir Dolezel).

1998 Auditor to graduate seminars of the English Department at York University (Toronto, Canada). Courses on Canadian Women Writers: A Comparative Anglo-French Perspective (Prof. Clara Thomas and Prof. John Lennox)

1999-2000 Organizing Secretary of the Literary Cluster NOISE Summer School in Women's Studies to be held in Pisa, 9 September-25 September,2000.

1999-2000 Junior coordinator workshop 7a "Critical Theories, Genealogies, Migrations of Knowledge Between Feminist Literary and Cultural Tradition" and 7b "The Controversial Body: Ageing in Women's Theories, Literatures and Cultures" - 4th European Feminist Reasearch Conference "Body, Gender, Subjectivity. Crossing Borders of Disciplines and Institutions" to be held in Bologna, 28 September - 1 October, 2000.

1999- PH.D IN ENGLISH LITERATURE University of Hull (U.K) tutor: Prof. Patsy Stoneman Research: The Redefinition of the canon in Postmodern Women's Writings


SCHOLARSHIPS AND FELLOWSHIPS

1992 ERASMUS SCHOLARSHIP Université Catholique de Louvain la Neuve Leuven, Belgium.

1994 NOISE FELLOWSHIP Network of Interdisciplinary Women Studies in Europe University of Bologna.

1995-96 SOCRATES SCHOLARSHIP Master of Arts in Women and Literature University of Kingston upon Hull (U.K.).

1997 NOISE FELLOWSHIP Network of Interdisciplinary Women Studies in Europe University of Dortmund & Bielefeld (Germany).

1999 FACULTY OF ARTS SCHOLARSHIPS The University of Hull - Faculty of Arts


ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

ARTICLES

"SE IL CORPO FEMMINILE DIVENTA SOGGETTO" in Miopia 24 (June 1995): 17-18.

"ANNE FRANK. UN DIARIO ALLA RICERCA DI SÉ" in Miopia 25 (September 1995): 12-13.

"IMMAGINARE IN LINGUE IMMAGINARIE: URSULA K. LE GUIN" in Leggere Donna 63 (July-August 1996): 25-26.

"LA VENDETTA DI ARACNE: MISS MARPLE" in Miopia 30 (September 1997): 31-32.

THE ÉCRITURE FÉMININE OF A "HIDEOUS PROGENY". MARGE PIERCY'S HE, SHE AND IT AS A POSTMODERN INTERTEXT OF MARY SHELLEY'S FRANKENSTEIN in Versus. Quaderni di Studi Semiotici 76/77 Special Issue: The Concept of Intertextuality Thirty Years Later 1967-1997 January-May 1997: 119-43.

REDEFINI-LA SUBXECIVIDADE FEMININA: NOVAS FIGURACIONS DA POLITICA DE MOBILIDADE A Trabe De Ouro. Publicación galega de pensamiento crítico (July-August-September 1998): 341-49.

IL CORPO DISSEMINATO NEL CYBERSPAZIO DI WILLIAM GIBSON E PAT CADIGAN Merope (forthcoming)

AUTOMA Entry for the Dizionario dei temi letterari, Ed. by R. Ceserani, M.Domenichelli e P. Fasano, Torino, UTET, (in print)


BOOK REVIEWS

"Un mondo di parole" Review of Margaret Atwood's Le uova di Barbablù Leggere Donna 56 (May-June 1995): 4.

"Meglio Cyborg che Dea" Review of Donna J. Haraway's Manifesto Cyborg Leggere Donna 57 (July-August 1995): 4.

Rosi Braidotti. Dissonanze. Le donne e la filosofia contemporanea. Verso una lettura filosofica delle idee femministe. Il Mondo 3. Rivista di Teoria delle Scienze Umane e Sociali II.2/3 (August-December 1995): 473-477.

Marge Piercy. CyberGolem. Leggere Donna 58 (September-October 1995): 10.

"Narratrice di prim'ordine." Review of Antonia S. Byatt's Il genio nell'occhio dell'usignolo. Leggere Donna 59 (November-December 1995): 4.

Stevie Davis. Four Dreamers and Emily. Leggere Donna 66 (January-February 1997): 29.

Patsy Stoneman. Brontë Transformations: The Cultural Dissemination of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Leggere Donna 66 (January-February 1997): 29.

Marcela Serrano. Noi che ci vogliamo così bene. Leggere Donna 67 (March-April 1997): 12.

Marisa Fiumanò ed. L'immacolata fecondazione. Perché le donne dicono di sì alla scienza. Leggere Donna 67 (March-April 1997): 16.

Virginia Woolf. Il lettore comune. Miopia 29 (May 1997): 26-27.

Tiziana Terranova. Corpi nella rete. Interfacce multiple, cyberfemminismo e agorà telematiche. Leggere Donna 68 (May-June 1997): 16

R. Baccolini, M.G. Fabi, V. Fortunati, R. Monticelli (eds.) Critiche femministe e teorie letterarie. VS. Quaderni di studi semiotici 77/78 (May-December 1997): 207-210.

Angela Carter. La donna pomodoro. Eros, cibo e letteratura. Leggere Donna 69 (July-August 1997): 5.

Hella S. Haasse, La signora Bentick o dell'incompatibilità di carattere. Leggere Donna 70 (September-October 1997): 14.

Pat Cadigan, Mindplayers. Leggere Donna 71 (November-December 1997): 7.

Susan Bordo, Il peso del corpo. Leggere Donna 72 (January-February 1998): 12.

Jennifer Waelti-Walters and Steven C. Hause eds. Feminisms of the Belle Époque: A Historical and Literary Anthology. Journal of Gender Studies. An International Forum for the Debate on Gender in All Fields of Study. (Vol. 7 Number 1 March 1998): 122.

Sherry Turkle, Vita sullo schermo. Leggere Donna 74 (May-June 1998): 13.

Silvia Albertazzi (ed.), Appartenenze. La scrittura delle donne di colore nelle letterature di espressione inglese. Leggere Donna 74 (May-June 1998): 12.

Allucquère Rosanne Stone, Desiderio e tecnologia. Il problema dell'identità nell'era di internet. Leggere Donna 75 (July-August 1998): 15.

Winterson Jeannette, Simmetrie amorose. Leggere Donna 76 (September-October 1998): 9.


ACADEMIC PAPERS DELIVERED

"Immaginare in lingue immaginarie: U.K. Le Guin." Genovantacinque. Semiotica della scrittura. Genova, July 11, 1995.

"Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: The Absent Mother." Feminism, Poststructuralism and Psychoanalysis. Seminar for the M.A in Women and Literature 1995-96. Department of English, University of Hull (U.K). Course Convener: Professor Patsy Stoneman. November 14, 1995

"Dorothy Bussy's Olivia. Retracing Lesbian Autobiography." Women and History. Seminar for the M.A in Women and Literature 1995-96. Department of English, University of Hull (U.K). Course Convener: Professor Patsy Stoneman. February 22, 1996

"Gender Studies and Science Fiction: From Female Gothic Tradition to Cyberpunk" Texts and Contexts Critical Debates in Women's Studies, Post-Colonial Theories and Neo-Historicism Women's Studies Seminar, 1997-98 University of Bologna Prof. V. Fortunati and Dr. R. Monticelli April 23, 1998.

"Technology and Re-Apppropriation of the Female Body in Women's Science Fiction" Magna Mater: lo sguardo femminile sul mondo. Bologna Women's Bookstore. April 29, 1998.

"The Voyage in Utopia and Science Fiction: Towards Woman's Imaginary Space" Women's Studies Seminar, 1998-1999 University of Bologna Prof. V. Fortunati and Dr. R. Monticelli April 27, 1999.

"Fighting Metaphors: Cyborgs, Mestizas, Nomadic and Eccentric Subjects" University of Hull Hull Centre for Gender Studies March 13, 2000.

"Literary Canons and Western Traditions: a Women's Studies Approach" Women's Studies Seminar, 1999-2000 University of Bologna Prof. V. Fortunati and Dr. R. Monticelli April 27, 2000.


TRANSLATIONS FROM ENGLISH INTO ITALIAN

Goody, Jack. "Oltre i muri I" Il Mondo 3. Rivista di teoria delle scienze umane e sociali. II. 1 (April 1995): 352-367.

Goody, Jack. "Oltre i muri II" Il Mondo 3. Rivista di teoria delle scienze umane e sociali. II. 2-3 (August-December 1995): 434-455.

Goody, Jack. "Oltre i muri III" Il Mondo 3. Rivista di teoria delle scienze umane e sociali. III. 1 (April 1996): 360-379.

"La cultura in movimento" Chapter 5 of the Italian translation of Assessing Cultural Anthropology Edited by Robert Borofsky. Roma: Meltemi (in print)


PROJECTS I AM CURRENTLY INVOLVED

Plenary paper for "European Intertexts: A Study of Women's Writing in English as Part of a European Fabric" Issues and Methodologies Workshop in Hull 30 June- 1 July 2000

Research presentation for "Utopianism/Literary Utopias and National Cultural Identities: A Comparative Perspective" Rimini 5-9 July 2000