Giuseppe Martella (click here for italian version)

Contact me:
g.martella@uniurb.it

BRIEF CURRICULUM:

I graduated at the University of Messina, and there started as a research student, spending a few years abroad. I began my proper University career at the University of Bologna in 1980, where I was appointed "Ricercatore" at the Faculty of Magistero and then, from 1984, at the Faculty of Lettere. There I taught several courses until 1998 when, on winning a national concourse, I was appointed Associate Professor of English at the Faculty of Lingue, University of Urbino, where I still teach.
I have taught on several subjects and different periods of British Literature: Elizabethan Poetry (Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare); Medieval and Renaissance drama (especially Shakespeare and the History Play); Romantic poetry (Coleridge , Wordsworth), Twentieth Century poetry, novel and short story (Yeats, Eliot, Auden., Joyce); postcolonial short story (Achebe, Naipaul, Mahjoub). I have also done courses and seminars on literary theory: genres theory, 18th and 19th century aesthetics, the short story as genre, literary hermeneutics.
On the administrative side, I follow several Socrates Exchange programs with British Universities. I am member of a few boards and commissions: 1. Assignation of research grants; 2. Interdisciplinary faculty PHD project; 3. Commission for didactic reformation.

I am a member of the following academic and cultural associations:
1) AIA (Associazione italiana di Anglistica) http://wwwesterni.unibg.it/anglistica/aia.htm
2)ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) http://www.essenglish.org/
3) IJJF (International James Joyce Foundation) http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/english/organizations/ijjf/
4) Centro Internazionale di Studi sul Romanticismo http://www.lingue.unibo.it/romanticismo/CENTRO/PRESENTAZIONE.HTM
5) BARS (British association for Romantic Studies) http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey/links/linksr.html
6) BCLA (British Comparative Literature Association) http://www.bcla.org/
7) European Research Network ACUME (Approaches to European Cultural memory), affiliated to the Bologna Unit, led by professor Vita Fortunati (see http://www.lingue.unibo.it/acume/sb03.htm).

My present research interests also cover literary hermeneutics, post modern and postcolonial narrative, the relationship between literature and media, the short story and its forms.

Selected recent bibliography

1. "Henry the Fourth: the Frame of History", Mnema. Per Lino Falzon Santucci, Messina, Armando Sicilano, 1997, pp. 55-85.

2. Ulisse: parallelo biblico e modernità, Bologna, CLUEB, 1997, pp. 292.

3. "Reflection and Imagination: Coleridge's Biographia Literaria and Schelling", in La questione Romantica, n. doppio 7/8 (1999), pp. 173-190.

4. Introduzione alla lettura di Dubliners, Imola, La Mandragora, 2001, pp. 165.

5. "Critica della ragione impura" : l'emarginazione di Vico nella cultura europea", in Lilla Maria Crisafulli, a cura di, Immaginando l'Italia. Itinerari letterari del Romanticismo inglese, Bologna, CLUEB, 2002.