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Journal of the month... Each month we feature a key journal, lifting restrictions on content to make it freely available to all, and providing additional insights into the team behind the journal, its history, and its content. This month... Italian Studies Find out more about Italian Studies, take out a subscription, or submit a paper. |
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Meet the Editor
Robert Gordon Senior Editor of
Dr Robert Gordon is Reader in Modern Italian Culture at the University of Cambridge. He specialises in twentieth-century Italian literature, cinema and cultural history and has published widely in the field, in particular on Pier Paolo Pasolini and Primo Levi. He recently contributed a volume to the British Film Institute’s Classics series on the Bicycle Thieves which looks at the film’s drawn-out planning and production history, the vibrant and riven context in which it was made, and the dynamic geography, geometry and sociology of the film that resulted. He also co-edited (with Guido Bonsaver) the volume Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th-Century Italy which was published under the Legenda imprint by Maney and the MHRA. For a comprehensive list of publications authored and edited by Robert Gordon, click here.
Jennifer Burns is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Italian at the University of Warwick. Her research has covered political commitment in literature (impegno) — which resulted in the publication of a monograph entitled Fragments of impegno: Interpretations of Commitment in Contemporary Italian Narrative (1980-2000) published by Maney — and the impact of emigration, internal migration and immigration, as expressed in literary texts and cinema, on the notion of Italian national identity. For a more detailed biography click here. Derek Duncan has been Lecturer in Italian at Bristol University since 1989 and Senior Lecturer since 2000. He was appointed Professor of Italian Cultural Studies in 2007. He has published extensively on gender and sexuality in Italian literature and film — and his book on male homosexuality and its intersections with race and national identity led to the development of an interest in Italian colonial culture. He is Senior Editor of the Cultural Studies issue of Italian Studies. For further information click here. Simon Gilson is Associate Professor/Reader at the Department of Italian, University of Warwick. His research interests cover two main areas: (1) Dante’s intellectual and scientific culture (in particular Aristotelian natural science, magic, medicine, and optics) and their presence in his poetry; and (2) Dante’s reception in Italy from 1320-1600, including the tradition of Dante commentary. His interest in literature and science led to an edited volume (with Pierpaolo Antonello) on Science and Literature in Italian Culture From Dante to Calvino, published under the Legenda imprint by Maney and the MHRA. For further information about Simon Gilson, click here. About the Society for Italian Studies
The Society for Italian Studies is a registered charity which supports academic Italian studies in Britain and Ireland. The society has as its object 'to advance public education by furthering the study of Italy, Italian language, literature, thought, history, society and arts in the United Kingdom and Ireland'. The Society runs a full calendar of events in Italian studies in Britain and Ireland — including a residential conference which is held every two years, with a smaller, themed event in alternate years) and its Annual General Meeting and Colloquium (usually held in London in early January). It also sponsors an annual Postgraduate Colloquium. In addition to the journal Italian Studies, the society also publishes a series of Occasional Papers which provides a forum for monographs and other miscellaneous publications in Italian studies. Membership is open to all who support the object of the Society. To find out more visit the SIS website. Sign up for Table of Content alerts
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Italian Studies: looking to the future 'Whilst the financial and institutional state of the humanities in the UK and Ireland is fragile, to say the least, as we move into the second decade of the century, research in the broad field of Italian studies continues to impress with its originality, vigour, and variety. Italian Studies will see a number of changes in 2010 which we hope will enable it to reflect better than ever the health and breadth of research produced both from within the discipline and by scholars from other disciplines working on Italian-related material. Opening up a new and innovative 'cultural space' in Italian studies From this year (volume 65), Italian Studies will appear in three annual issues. Two of these will maintain the pattern that has been successfully established since the journal moved from a single annual issue to two per year in 2005; that is, one general issue per year containing a diverse range of articles on the literary, visual, and intellectual culture, and history of Italy from its earliest period to the present day; and a second, themed ‘special issue’, edited by one or more guest editors, on a specific topic or thread of new research which has the potential to be of interest to a wide section of our readership. The new third issue, ‘Italian Studies: Cultural Studies’, to be edited by Derek Duncan, will be devoted to the variety of fields, methods, and approaches to Italian culture gathered under the heading of ‘cultural studies’. The aim of this initiative is to open up a space in Italian Studies for some of the most innovative and challenging new work which has transformed and continues to transform our discipline over recent decades. See the feature to the right for more about the Cultural Studies issue. All three issues will continue to include review articles, short reviews, and on occasion interviews, debates, and other forms of material not covered by the conventional scholarly article. Celebrating a long and illustrious publishing history Developments in retrodigitisation during 2010 will make a large amount of past Italian Studies content available to readers. See the feature to the right for more information about the online archive. Moving on... Finally, 2010 will be a year of transition in personnel also. The Editorial Board will be expanded to enable it to respond to the growth in scope and quantity of material we are now publishing. As Derek Duncan takes up his role as Senior Editor of the Cultural Studies issue, he will be joined at the end of 2010, as my term as Senior Editor comes to a close, by two new general Senior Editors, Jennifer Burns and Simon — Editorial, Vol 65, No. 1, February, 2010
Italian Studies is part of the MORE Language & Literature E-Journal Collection which provides instant online access to twenty-one highly-regarded, peer-reviewed, international language and literature publications. Each journal in the Collection provides you with original research papers that are of interest to all those involved in literary studies around the world. To trial this Collection FREE ONLINE FOR 30 DAYS simply register here. Special issues
Italian Studies devotes one of its three annual issues to a special theme of broad and interdisciplinary interest to the field. Since 2006 these have been: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Italian Culture: Representations and Critical Debates Transmissions and Transformations in Medieval and Renaissance Textual Cultures Volume 64, Number 2, Autumn 2009 Thinking Italian Film Public and Private Spaces in Italian Culture Scontro/incontro: the hybrid experience of Italy and its colonies
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View FREE CONTENT online! From 1 August to 15 September 2010 we are lifting all access restrictions on three years of ITS content to make it available to you completely free of charge. You don't need to register, fill out any forms or even leave your name — simply click here to link directly to IngentaConnect. New annual 'Cultural Studies' issue
Italian Studies is moving to three issues per year in 2010 with a third issue entitled Cultural Studies. Articles in the first of these annual issues will include topics such as sub-Saharan Africans in Renaissance Italy, the homoerotic Florentine culture of the eighteenth century, the neorealist nation of post-war cinema, and representations of Islam. By extending the range of cultural forms studied and embracing the popular as well as the canonical, this issue of the journal aims to provide a home for, and assist the development of, pioneering and innovative work that falls within the broad ambit of cultural studies. This peer-reviewed publication will have its own editorial board affiliated to that of Italian Studies, but reflecting the particular interests and priorities of the subject matter. Maintaining the wide chronological range that characterises the journal, the Italian cultural studies issue will promote all forms of criticism that extend the methodological scope of the discipline. The issue will be international in scope, looking to publish the very best work being currently produced on Italian culture, past and present. Potential contributors are invited to contact the editor, Derek Duncan, to discuss their proposals, or submit material directly to him. Unlocking the archive: a wealth of content now available online
From early 2010, digital versions of the complete back catalogue of Italian Studies, from its first issue in 1937 to the last print-only issue in 2004, will be made available via IngentaConnect, as part of Maney's wider ‘retrodigitization’ project. The opportunity to see and make widely and easily available once more the full history and intellectual contribution of one of the oldest, most important journals of italianistica outside Italy itself will be a precious one; and we hope to respond to this in future issues by drawing out and reflecting on some of the most significant contributions from the long history of our journal. Top ten articles
Reading the Convivio from Trecento Florence to Dante's Cinquecento Commentators Simon A Gilson Va', mia canzone': Textual Transmission and the Congedo in Medieval Exile Lyrics Epistolary Masks: Self-Presentation and Dissimulation in the Letters of Isabella d'Este Sarah Cockram 'Il Suon, Lo Sguardo, Il Canto': The Function of Portraits of Mid-Seventeenth-Century Virtuose In Rome From the Street to Stereotype: Urban Space, Travel and the Picturesque in Late Eighteenth-Century Naples Amnesia and Remembering: Dal polo all'equatore, a Film by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi After Brunetta: Italian Cinema Studies in Italy, 2000 to 2007 Which Holocaust? Primo Levi and the Field of Holocaust Memory in Post-War Italy Franco Moretti and the World Literature Debate The Control of Space: Dealing with Diversity in Early Modern Venice Next month... Corrosion Engineering, Science and Technology. View three years of content completely free of charge from 1 September 2010.
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