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Shirley Vinall

Senior Lecturer

Telephone +44 (0)118 378 6503
Email s.w.vinall@reading.ac.uk
The Editor of Pirandello Studies and co-editor of The Italianist, she has published on a wide range of subjects, especially on Futurism and the early twentieth-century avant-garde in Italy and on links between French and Italian culture. She also has a particular interest in twentieth-century Italian fiction, especially works written by women, and has published on Francesca Duranti and Rosetta Loy. Recent work includes 'The Impact of French Symbolism on Italian Poetry', in Symbolism, Decadence and the Fin-de-Siècle, ed. P. McGuinness (Exeter, Exeter University Press, 2000), 244-63; 'Marinetti, Soffici and French Literature', in International Futurism in Arts and Literature, ed. G. Berghaus (Berlin/New York, Walter De Gruyter, 2000), 15-38; ‘Princes and Pierrots: Palazzeschi’s Early Writing and Laforgue’, Italian Studies 58 (2003), 104-32; and ‘Symbolism and Latinity: Anthologie-Revue de France et d’Italie and its diffusion of French literature in Italy’ (forthcoming in The Italianist (2006)). She is happy to supervise doctoral students on these and related aspects of twentieth-century culture.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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