Emanuela Patti
Lecturer in Italian
- Italian section
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44(0)131 6503645
- Email: Emanuela.Patti@ed.ac.uk
- Italian Section, Department of European Languages and Cultures
- Centre for Visual Cultures (Royal Holloway)
- The Society for Italian Studies
- Academia
- David Rizzio at the Scottish Court
- Pasolini 100
- Edinburgh Futures Institute, Cluster: Creativity, AI, and the human
- Edinburgh Futures Institute, Cluster: Media and Communication
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Background
Dr Emanuela Patti holds a BA/MA in Modern Literary Studies from the University of Urbino, an MA in Comparative Literature from University College London, and a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Birmingham. Before joining the University of Edinburgh in 2021, she was first a Visiting Scholar and subsequently a Visiting Professor at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the Open University of Catalonia. She also served as Senior Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project Interdisciplinary Italy: Interart/Intermedia 1900–2020, directed by Giuliana Pieri (and previously by Clodagh Brook), with Florian Mussgnug as Co-Investigator. This interdisciplinary project shaped her work on intermediality, remediation, and the transformation of literary and cultural forms across analogue and digital environments.
Dr Patti’s specialism is modern and contemporary Italian literary and cultural studies, with particular expertise in intermediality, digital culture, and the transnational transformation of texts, media, and cultural memory.
Her research brings together three complementary areas that explore the changing forms of Italian literature and culture across media, historical periods, and technological environments, combining literary criticism with media studies, digital humanities, and cultural history.
1. Modern and contemporary Italian Literature, Media, and Intermediality
Dr Patti’s research on modern and contemporary Italian literature explores the relationships between literary texts and other artistic media, with particular attention to intermediality, realism, theories of representation, and the Italian neo-avant-garde. She has published extensively on Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dante’s reception in modern Italian literature, and experimental writing, with a broader interest in the intersections between literature, cinema, visual culture, and digital media. Her first monograph, "Pasolini after Dante: the “Divine Mimesis” and the Politics of Representation" (Legenda/Routledge, 2016), recently translated into Italian as "Divina Mimesis. Pasolini lettore di Dante" (Carocci, 2025), examines how Pasolini reworked Dantean structures and medieval imaginaries to rethink realism, representation, and cultural crisis in post-war Italy. To mark the centenary of Pasolini's birth, she curated the international lecture series "Pasolini and the Classics" (2022), bringing together leading scholars in Pasolini Studies, alongside screenings of Pasolini's films organised in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute and Filmhouse in Edinburgh. Other publications include "La nuova gioventu’? Saggi sull’eredita’ intellettuale di Pier Paolo Pasolini" (Joker, 2009), and the co-edited volume "Transmedia. Storia, memoria e narrazioni attraverso i media" (with Clodagh Brook, Mimesis, 2014). This work established the foundations of her continuing interest in literary transformation across media, an approach that has shaped her subsequent research on digital culture and artificial intelligence.
2. Digital Humanities, Digital Culture, and AI
Her second research area investigates the impact of digital technologies on literature, culture, and scholarly practice. Building on and rethinking Umberto Eco's concept of the open work, she explores how computational media, electronic literature, artificial intelligence, and digital infrastructures are transforming literary production, interpretation, and creativity. This work culminated in her monograph "Opera Aperta: Italian Electronic Literature from the 1960s to the Present" (Peter Lang, 2022), runner-up for the N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism in Electronic Literature. Alongside her publications, Dr Patti has contributed to the development of Digital Italian Studies through the (co-)/organisation of international conferences, thematic journal issues, summer schools, symposia, and scholarly networks. These include the conference "Experimental Narratives: From the Novel to Digital Storytelling" (IMLR, London, 2015); the special issues "Experimental Narratives: From the Novel to Digital Storytelling" (Journal of Comparative Critical Studies, 13.3, 2016) and "Reading Practices in Experimental Narratives: A Comparative Perspective from Print to Digital Fiction in Modern Languages" (Journal of Romance Studies, 16.1, 2016); the Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School (Dublin, 2018); the Transmissions Summer School (Roma Tre University, 2021–23); and the symposium "Digital Culture Studies in Modern Languages" (Royal Holloway, 2019). Together with numerous conference panels and invited lectures, these initiatives have helped consolidate Digital Italian Studies as a recognised area of interdisciplinary scholarship. Her current research extends these questions into the field of artificial intelligence, examining how generative AI is reshaping literary creativity, interpretation, and scholarly practice. This work is reflected in her forthcoming co-edited volume "The Digital Turn in Italian Studies" (with Massimo Riva, Peter Lang) and a growing body of research on AI and Italian literary culture.
3. Cultural Memory, Heritage, and Public Italian Studies
Her third research strand examines the afterlives of historical figures and cultural narratives across literature, visual culture, music, performance, heritage, and digital media. It combines archival research with public engagement to investigate how historical memory is continually reconstructed through processes of mythmaking, remediation, and cultural transmission. This programme is currently centred on the figure of David Rizzio, Mary Queen of Scot's private secretary, supported by a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship (2024-2025) and Workshops Grant (2023). The project has generated the edited volume "David Rizzio: History and Myth Across Arts and Media" (Edinburgh University Press, 2026), a short documentary film, a pilot table-top role-play game, archival discoveries, and an expanding programme of public engagement that explores the relationship between historical evidence, cultural memory, and national identity. A distinctive feature of this research is its commitment to Public Italian Studies. Through collaborations with museums, archives, schools, heritage organisations and local authorities, this research has contributed to expanding the role of Italian Studies beyond the university, demonstrating its relevance to public history, cultural policy and community engagement.
Her work has circulated internationally through invited lectures and collaborations across leading centres for Italian Studies, digital humanities, and media theory, including Brown University, University of Oxford, New York University, University College London, and University of Bergen. She currently serves as Research Portfolio Holder for the Society for Italian Studies Executive Committee, contributing to debates on the future of Italian Studies in the digital age.
Editorial and Peer-Review Roles
Patti has held senior editorial and peer-review roles across international journals and book series in Italian Studies, media theory, and digital humanities, including Italian Studies, The International Journal of McLuhan Studies, Romance Studies, Modern Italy, Modernism/Modernity, PMLA, and The Italianist.
Additionally, Patti has contributed her expertise as an advisor for national research councils, including Poland’s OPUS Funding Scheme (National Science Center) and Italy’s Valutazione della Qualità della Ricerca (VQR).
Qualifications
MA Comparative Literature (UCL)
PhD Italian Studies (University of Birmingham)
Responsibilities & affiliations
External leadership roles
- Society for Italian Studies, Executive Committee Member (Digital Strategy Portfolio Holder: 2019-2024; Research portfolio holder: 2025-2028)
- UNA EUROPA, Chair in Humanities, 2021-2022
Selected Awards, Honours, and Nominations
- CAHSS Challenge Investment Fund, 2024-2025
- RSE Personal Research Fellowship, 2024-2025
- CAHSS Awards Nomination for ‘Inspiring colleague’, 2024
- RSE Workshops Grant, 2023
- Honorary Research Associate, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2019-2022
- Visiting Professorship and Fellowship, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, UOC, 2010-11
Undergraduate teaching
I teach Italian language, as well as literary and cultural transformation across media, historical, and interpretive environments
- Leopardi, Y2 module, sem 2, (Italian Literature: Texts in Context)
- Italian Language Paper 1, Y4 (Course coordinator)
- Visualising Boccaccio’s Decameron Across Arts and Media, Italian 4 Honours, Full Semester Option
Postgraduate teaching
- Digital Literature (Theories of Intermediality, MSc Intermediality)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Anna Judelsone (PhD Intermediality, 2024-), Performing diversity in actual plays (Principal supervisor)
Tingyu Han Han (PhD Intermediality, 2025-), From Open Text to Re-encoding: The intermediality of Chinese “ Literature–Animation–Games–Film/TV” and the Migration of Aesthetic Elements(Second supervisor)
Layla Li (PhD Intermediality, 2025-), The Rise of Short Video Narratives: The Cultural Construction, Dissemination Mechanisms, and Reinvention of Media Ecology in TikTok Micro-dramas (Principal supervisor)
Research summary
Research Interests
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Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture
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Intermediality, Remediation, and Media Theory
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Digital Humanities and Digital Italian Studies
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Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity
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Electronic Literature and Digital Textuality
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Pier Paolo Pasolini
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Cultural Memory, Heritage, and Public Italian Studies
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Adaptation, Transmedia Storytelling, and Media Convergence
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History, Myth, and the Afterlives of Historical Figures
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Literary Theory, Representation, and Realism
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Scotland–Italy Cultural Relations
Past research interests
Reception of Dante in Modern Italy Italian Neo-Avant-Garde and Experimental WritingProject activity
- David Rizzio at the Scottish Court (funded by the Royal Society of Edinburgh) | 2023-2026
- The Digital Turn in Italian Studies (with Prof. Massimo Riva) | 2025-
- Rethinking Catharsis in the Age of the Metaverse (with Prof. Massimo Riva) | 2023-2024
- Pasolini 100 | 2022
Past project grants
2024-2025
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH Personal Research Fellowship - "David Rizzio: History and Myth Across Arts and Media" (Principal Investigator)
CHALLENGE INVESTMENT FUND - Scottish Historical Heritage and Gamification
2023
ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH Research Workshops Grant (2022-2023) - "David Rizzio: An Italian at the Scottish Court" (Principal Investigator)
Invited speaker
Invited Talks and Keynote lectures
2026
Research Away Day: From the Open Work to Artificial Intelligence: Rereading Umberto Eco in the Digital Age, Italian Research Away Day, University of St. Andrews, 24 April 2026, followed by the roundtable Toward collaborative research: What is the current status of Italian Studies research in Scotland? What are the paths forward?
From Divine Mimesis to Sacred Flesh. Pasolini’s Evolving Politics of Representation, Pasolini Politique, organised by Xavier Daverat and Cristina Panzeri, Université de Bordeaux, 6-7 November 2025
2025
Plenary roundtable: 'Italian Studies at the Digital Turn: Stock-taking, Challenges, Opportunities', Italian Studies at the Digital Turn, SIS Themed Conference, 23-24 June 2025
Il progetto Rizzio: storia e mito attraverso le arti e i media, Council of Moretta, 7 June 2025.
David Rizzio. History and myth across arts and media, Italian Research seminar series, University of Oxford, 26 May 2025.
On controversial heritage: David Rizzio across arts and media, Italian Society, Lanark, 3 March 2025 [public engagement].
2024
On controversial heritage. Making sense of transnational biographies through archives and mythmaking, with Carlotta Paltrinieri, Early-modern Italy seminar series, University of Oxford, 26th November 2024.
Digital Italia. Language, literature, and innovation, Chapman University, Orange, California, 16th October 2024
Digital approaches to Medieval Italian Studies and Beyond, University of Durham, 12-13 June 2024
'Analysing digital literature through Umberto Eco's Opera aperta', Theories and practices of intermediality today, University of Edinburgh, 14-15 March 2024
'Rizzio: Life and Legacy at Court', Palace of Holyroodhouse, 8th March 2024 [public engagement]
Italian Teachers Day, organised by ISMLA and British Council, Francis Holland School, Ivor Place, London, 2nd March 2024
2023
'L'opera aperta dalla Neoavanguardia alla convergenza digitale', International conference 'Il gruppo 63 e le arti', University of Bern, 16-17 November 2023
'David Rizzio at the Scottish Court', screening of documentary written and produced by Emanuela Patti, Italo-Scottish Society, Edinburgh, 14th November 2023
'Opera aperta. Italian electronic literature from the 1960s to the present', Italian Studies Colloquium, Brown University, 3rd November 2023
What if...? Catharsis, VR, and the power of changing (hi)stories, talk, international conference Rethinking Catharsis in Virtual Narratives, Brown University, 18th April 2023
Pasolini e Dante, talk, Italian Cultural Institute Osaka, 30 January 2023 [public engagement]
Reset Italy, talk, Italy by design seminar series organised by Federica Pedriali, University of Edinburgh, 25 January 2023
2022
Frammenti di un discorso infernale: La Divina Mimesis di Pasolini, talk, Museo Divino, Naples, 21 December 2022 [public engagement]
Pasolini, autore internazionale, Il giovane Pier Paolo Pasolini in Friuli, talk, Casa San Vincenzo Pallotti, London, 15 October 2022 [public engagement]
Balestrini cibernetico, talk, documentary exhibition Mille Nanni, Casa Morra, Naples, 3rd July 2022 [public engagement]
Digital Literacy and Modern Languages. How to make a digital video, talk and tutorial, IIC Dublin, 12 March 2022 [public engagement]
Il realismo dantesco in Pasolini, Summer School Pasolini e la cultura medievale, lecture, Centro Studi “Pier Paolo Pasolini”, Casarsa della Delizia, 8-11 September
Opera aperta. Italian electronic literature from the 1960s to the present, book launch, John Cabot University in Rome, 11 April 2022
Digital Lab of the AAIS conference in Bologna, workshop lead and talk,13 and 30 May 2022
Interview with visual poets Alain Arias-Misson and Lamberto Pignotti (Gruppo 70), international conference Engaged Visuality: The Italian and Belgian Poesia Visiva Phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s, Academia Belgica and Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Rome, 7-8 July 2022
2021
Critical Digital Pedagogies for Modern Languages in Higher Education, talk, convened by Paul Spence (King’s College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research), Institute for Modern Languages Research, 3 March 2021
2019
Pasolini’s Intermediality. Creative Interventions Across Arts and Media, international conference, Metaphor, Spatiality, Discourse, Ovidius University of Costanta, 12-13 July 2019 (keynote lecture)
Pasolini After Dante. The ‘Divine Mimesis’ and the politics of representation, lecture, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University, 9 March 2019 [video] [public engagement]
Opera aperta. The Italian arts and the digital, Charles Colver Lecture, Brown University, 1 March 2019
Le riviste neoavanguardistiche degli anni Sessanta e Settanta in realtà aumentata, talk, international conference Il gesto poetico. Nuove prospettive di ricerca sull’arte verbovisuale, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, 8 February 2019 [public engagement]
2018
Cultura alta e cultura bassa. L’impegno come pratica interlinguistica, intermediale, interdiscorsiva, lecture, Summer School Pier Paolo Pasolini e l’impegno nella cultura italiana del suo tempo, Casarsa della Delizia, 14-15 September 2018
The Politics of Art/The Art of Politics: 1968 in Italian Neo-Avant-Garde Reviews, International conference 1968 in reviews, University of Birmingham, 23 April 2018 (keynote lecture)
Performing Italian authorship in the digital age: plural identities and hybrid genres, talk, international symposium Multilingual Digital Authorship, Lancaster University, 8-9 March 2018
Gender politics and gendering politics: visual poetry and Italian neo-avant-garde, talk with Prof. Giuliana Pieri, creative workshop Donna/Frau/Femme/Mujer: women artists and activists, Royal Holloway, 2 March 2018.
2017
L’ossessione dell’identità e la sua frantumazione: fluidità di genere e libertà d’essere in Petrolio, talk, international conference Petrolio, 25 anni dopo, Université Paris-Sorbonne, 5 October 2017
Digital Cultures and Modern Languages: Understanding Intermediality in The Digital Age, talk, international workshop Mapping Multilingualism and Digital Cultures, King’s College, 22 June 2017
On interconnections. Pasolini after Dante: the ‘Divine Mimesis’ and the politics of representation, international conference ‘L’ombra sua torna’: Dante, the twentieth century and beyond, School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds, 24 March 2017 (keynote lecture)
2016
Pasolini after Dante, book launch, research seminar series, University of Leicester, 7 December 2016
Pasolini after Dante, book launch, research seminar series, UCL, 19 October 2016
Pasolini after Dante, book launch, research seminar series, University of Oxford, 10 February 2016
Pasolini after Dante, book launch, research seminar series, University of Birmingham, 19 January 2016
2015
Experiment now. La letteratura italiana contemporanea nella prospettiva postmediale, international conference Incroci/Crossings, University of Bergen, 4-6 November 2015
La fortuna critica di Pasolini nel Regno Unito, talk, international conference La fortuna critica di Pasolini, Centro Studi Pier Paolo Pasolini Casarsa della Delizia, Casarsa, Italy, 29-30 October 2015
Literary experimentalism in the digital age, talk, international symposium The Mechanic Reader. Digital methods for literary criticism, Centre for Comparative Studies, University of Siena, Certosa di Pontignano, 12-13 June 2015Pasolini, Dante and Gramsci, public talk at Bridport, 18 February 2015 [public engagement]
Transmedia. History, memory and storytelling across media, talk, Centre for Media History, public talks series, University of Bournemouth, 16 February 2015
2014
Pasolini, Auerbach and the utopia of mimesis, talk, one-day symposium Crossing Borders: Pasolini and Marginality, Italian Cultural Institute, London, 31 October 2014 [public engagement]
2013
Italian literature across borders: from Pasolini to transmedia storytelling, talk, director’s seminars, IMLR, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 6 November 2013
Interdisciplinarità e cultura convergente in Italia: letteratura, arti e nuovi media nell’era della riproducibilità digitale, talk, international workshop, Interdisciplinarità contemporanea italiana nell’era di Internet, as part of the AHRC-funded Network Project Interdisciplinary Italy. 1900-2015: music, art, text. Università di Roma Tre, 22 April 2013
2012
Pasolini and the media, talk, graduate seminar, Italian Department, University of Cambridge, 31 January 2012
2011
International Journal of McLuhan Studies, journal launch, international conference Come usare McLuhan nell’epoca delle reti, Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze Sociali dell’Università del Salento, 14-15 December 2011
The Gutenberg Galaxy in the era of convergence culture, talk, graduate seminar, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Cataluña, November 2011
Dantean Postrealism in Pasolini, talk, international conference Corpus XXX. Pasolini, Petrolio, Salò, Department of Italian, University of Edinburgh/Italian Cultural Institute, UK, 12 May 2011
Pasolini, i media e la politica, talk, series of talks Attraverso Pasolini, organized by Silvia De Laude and Alberto Saibene, (other guests of previous appointments: Walter Siti, Nico Naldini, Marco Belpoliti), Libreria Utopia, Milano, Italy, 1 April 2011 [public engagement]
Post-realtà e rete nella letteratura italiana contemporanea, lecture, undergraduate seminar, Laboratorio di Scrittura Filosofica, University of Milan, Italy, 31 March 2011
Noi siamo in un sogno dentro un sogno: l’illusione della realtà nella rappresentazione cinematografica, talk, conference Epistemologia e fisiologia del cinema, University of Pisa, Italy, 11 March 2011
Riconoscere il pensiero critico di McLuhan, talk, roundtable McLuhan, 100 anni dopo, Casa della cultura, Milano, 14 December 2011 [public engagement]
Noi siamo in un sogno dentro un sogno’: the illusion of reality in film representation, talk, international conference Always Already New, NABA, Milan, Italy, 15-18 December 2011
2010
We are a dream in a dream: the illusion of reality in film narratives, talk, graduate seminar, Internet Interdisciplinary Institute, Universitat Oberta de Cataluña, Barcelona, December 2010
Nuova narrativa e social media: forme ibride di narrazione tra realtà finzionale e finzione reale, talk, roundtable Poesia, canzone, racconto: generi, forme, linguaggi, University of Cagliari, Italy, 22 April 2010
2005
Realismo e mimesis in Pasolini, talk, roundtable Una disperata vitalità. Pasolini trent’anni dopo (1975-2005), Aula Magna Istituto Statale d’Arte, Chiavari (GE), Italy, 29 September 2005 [public engagement]
Organiser
CONFERENCE ORGANISATION
2024
The David Rizzio Project. History and myth Across Arts and Media, panel, SIS Biennial Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 21 June 2024
Linguistic inclusivity in second language acquisition, EDI session, SIS Biennial Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 21 June 2024
2023
David Rizzio at the Scottish Court, Workshop 3, Italian Cultural Institute, 13th October 2023
A vile act: David Rizzio and Lord Darnley, a public lecture by best-selling historian Alison Weir, 13th October 2023
Rethinking Catharsis in the Age of the Metaverse, academic event, part of the Love Machine programme of events, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 28th April 2023 (video recording)
David Rizzio at the Scottish Court, Workshop 2, University of Edinburgh, 7th April 2023
David Rizzio at the Scottish Court, Workshop 1, University of Edinburgh, 17th March 2023
2022
Shadow Plays, a lecture and installation by Prof. Massimo Riva, 22 June 2022, University of Edinburgh
60 years after Opera Aperta, roundtable organisation and chair at the Society for Italian Studies conference, with Prof. Massimo Riva, Giuditta Cinigliaro, Angelica Federici and Valeria Federici, 22 April 2022
Pasolini and the classics, series of distinguished lectures on the occasion of Pasolini 100 Anniversary, University of Edinburgh, March-December 2022 (programme)
2020
Transcultural and translingual approaches to digital study, theme group, Disrupting Digital Monolingualism, 16-17 June 2020 (programme)
2019
Intermedial cultural icons, panel at the conference Interart/Intermedia Experimentation in Italy Through the Ages, Royal Holloway, 12-13 April 2019
Digital culture studies in Modern Languages (with Giuliana Pieri), international symposium, Royal Holloway, University of London, 15 February 2019 (report)
2018
1st Interdisciplinary Italy Summer School (with Clodagh Brook), summer school, Trinity College Dublin, 29-30 June 2018 (description and final programme)
2017
Italy’s expanded cinema: cinema and the electronic arts, panel at the JCMS conference, Rome, 9-10 June 2017
2016
Individual turns and aesthetic debates, panel at the conference Milan, crossroad of cultures, Milan, 22-23 September 2016
2015
Literary experimentalism? From the literary heritage to digital storytelling, panel at the Biennial conference of the Society for Italian Studies, Oxford, 28-30 September 2015
Experimental narratives: from the novel to digital storytelling (with Jordana Blejmar, Sam Merrill and Godela Weiss-Sussex), international conference, IMLR, Senate House, London, 26-27 February 2015 (final programme)
2014
Memories of the future (with Deborah Jaffe, Katia Pizzi and Stephen Wilson), international conference, UAL Chelsea/IMLR, Senate House, London, 2-3 May 2014 (description and final programme)
IMLR Seminar in Italian Studies Apocalittici ed integrati. Italian intellectuals and new technologies, with Florian Mussgnug (UCL), Charlotte Ross (Birmingham) and Pierpaolo Antonello (Cambridge), 1 May 2014
IMLR Seminar in Italian Studies Agamben, trauma and post-capitalist scenarios, ‘Italian Philosophy Seminar Series’, with Fabio Vighi (Cardiff), 7 April 2014
Amor che move by Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford) in conversation with Robert Gordon (Cambridge), Elena Lombardi (Oxford) and Emanuele Trevi (writer), Senate House, London, Senate House, London, 17 March 2014
IMLR Seminar in Italian Studies, Practising theory: the friction between critical theory and writing novels with Enrico Palandri (UCL) and Nicola Gardini (Oxford), 7 March 2014
2013
Storia umana e inumana by Giorgio Pressburger, book launch, with Laura Lepschy (UCL), Emma Bond (St.Andrews) and Manuele Gragnolati (Oxford), Senate House, London 25 November 2013
Ending terrorism in Italy. Extremism and democracy by Philip Cooke and Anna Cento Bull, , book launch, with John Foot (Bristol University), Benedetta Tobagi (UCL) and Ilaria Favretto (Kingston), Senate House, London, 10 October 2013
Italian transmedia culture: stories and storytelling across media, panel at the Biennial conference of the Society for Italian Studies, Durham, 9-11 July 2013
2012
Literature and transmediality (with Florian Mussgnug), one-day symposium at the Centre for Intercultural Studies, University College London, UK, 25 May 2012
2005
Pasolini, tra identità e omologazione, interview with Goffredo Fofi, Cagliari, 9 November 2005
La nuova gioventù? The intellectual legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini 30 years on (with Laurence Hooper), international conference, Centre for Research in Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (CRAASH), Cambridge, UK, 4-5 November 2005
Trent’anni senza Pasolini, festival, Cagliari, Italy, 2-20 November 2005 (final programme in e-zine)
L’imperativo dell’espressività: Pasolini sperimentatore di linguaggi, national conference, Università di Cagliari, Italy, 10 November 2005
Participant
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
2026
Rereading Eco’s Opera aperta: From the Neoavanguardia to AI, International Conference Inheriting Eco, 27-29 May 2026, University of Bologna
David Rizzio: Murder, Myth, and the Making of Scotland, LLC Research Symposium, 11 May 2026, University of Edinburgh
Eco’s Opera aperta and AI, Creativity, AI, and the Human Research Hub series, Edinburgh Futures Institute, 11 May 2026, University of Edinburgh
2025
Ketty La Rocca and the Prehistory of Feminist Interface Culture, at the international symposium Ketty La Rocca and Women Artists of the Italian Neo-Avant-garde, 11 November, Estorick Collection, London
From Balestrini's Tape Mark I to ChatGPT: Mapping the Evolution of Literary Authorship in the AI Era, Literature's Future in the Shadow of AI, Italian Studies at the Digital Turn, SIS Themed Conference, 23-24 June 2025
2024
The David Rizzio Project. History and myth Across Arts and Media, SIS Biennial Conference, Royal Holloway, University of London, 21 June 2024
2022
Opera aperta. Italian electronic literature from the 1960s to the present, AAIS conference, Bologna, 30 May 2022
Intermediality, DELC Research Seminars Series, 10 February 2022
2019
Italian Studies and the Digital. How digital technologies are transforming our discipline, SIS Biennial Conference of Italian Studies, University of Edinburgh, 26-28 June 2019
Beyond computer screens. Projecting electronic images in public spaces, JICMS Conference, American University in Rome, 14-15 June 2019
Opera aperta. Italian Arts and the Digital, international conference Interart/Intermedia Experimentation in Italy Through the Ages, 12-13 April 2019
Creative interventions in the digital space. Explorations in intermedia criticism, international conference PressPlay2019, British School at Rome, 28-29 March 2019
2018
The Italian Digital Avantgarde, panel Interdisciplinary Italy: interart/intermedia, AAIS Conference, Sorrento, 14-17 June 2018
2017
Italy’s expanded cinema in practice: Gianni Toti and Studio Azzurro, JCMS Conference Innovations and tensions, Italian cinema and media in a global world, Rome, 9-10 June 2017
2016
Literary experimentalism? From the literary heritage to digital storytelling, SIS Biennial Conference of Italian Studies, Oxford, 28-30 September 2016
2014
Dopo il futuro: impegno ed immaginario politico nell’epoca del post-capitalismo, Compalit Conference L’immaginario politico: impegno, resistenza e ideologia, Bologna, Italy, 17-19 December 2014
2013
Il romanzo nella Galassia Internet, SIS Biennal Conference of Italian Studies, Durham, UK, 7-11 July 2013
2012
Literature and transmediality, one-day symposium Literature and Transmediality, UCL, London, 25 May 2012
2011
The Gutenberg Galaxy in the Era of Convergence Culture (with Matteo Ciastellardi), international conference Then, Now, Next. McLuhan 100, McLuhan Programme in Culture and Technology, Toronto, Canada, 7-10 November 2011
Interview with the philosopher Massimo Cacciari, public event at the RENA Summer School on Buongoverno e cittadinanza responsabile, Matera, 31 August 2011
2010
Lingua letteraria e lingua reale nell’opera di Salvatore Niffoi, AIPI Conference, University of Cagliari, Italy, 25-28 August 2010
2009
The other side of reality in Pasolini and Fassbinder, international conference Pasolini and Fassbinder between utopia and nihilism, Department of European Studies of the University of Cardiff, UK, 25-26 April 2009
Petrolio, a model of UNO in Giuseppe Genna’s Italia De Profundis, SIS Biennal conference, University of London, Royal Holloway, UK, 16-19 April 2009
2008
Da mimesis ad allegoria: postrealismo dantesco nell’opera pasoliniana, international conference Allegory in theory and practice, Department of Italian Studies of the University of Toronto and the Dipartimento di Filologia e Critica della Letteratura of the University of Siena, University of Toronto, Canada, 17-19 October 2008
Un documento del passaggio del pensiero: La Divina Mimesis di Pier Paolo Pasolini, AAIS/AITI conference, Taormina, 22-25 May 2008
2006
Petrolio, scrittura della differenza. Memoria, storia, identità alla deriva, AIPI conference, Ascoli Piceno, Italy, 23-27 August 2006
Mimesis. La volontà di Pasolini a essere poeta, AAIS/AITI conference, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, 25-28 May 2006
2005
A poetic idea: Pasolini’s project for a film about Saint Paul, international conference La meglio gioventù? The intellectual legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini 30 years on, Centre for Research in Arts Humanities and Social Sciences (CRAASH), Cambridge, UK, 4-5 November 2005
Il San Paolo di Pasolini: da ‘idea poetica’ a ‘film teologico’, SIS PG Colloquium, University of Cambridge, 16-17 April 2005
Dante as Pretext? The use of Allegory in Pasolini’s Petrolio, international conference Dialogue with tradition. Contemporary writers and literary heritage, University of Warwick, UK, 5 February 2005
2004
Una commedia infernale. Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, SIS PG Colloquium, University of Leicester, 5 June 2004
2003
Frammenti di un discorso infernale, SIS PG Colloquium, University of Edinburgh, 24 May 2003
2001
L’erranza. La presenza tematica dell’esperienza erratica dantesca nell’opera di Tondelli, seminar on Pier Vittorio Tondelli La scrittura e la memoria. Dieci anni dopo, Centro di documentazione P.V. Tondelli, Correggio (RE), Italy, 14-15 December 2001