Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Lucia Boldrini

I graduated at the University of Pisa (Italy), and have a PhD from Leicester and a Dottorato di Ricerca (equivalent to a PhD) from Pisa / Florence. I have been at Goldsmiths since 1995.

Teaching

Theories and methodologies of comparative literature; Modernism, Postmodernism, Post-War II writing, Joyce; Dante; Literary theory, the short story.

Areas of supervision

• fantastic literature magical realism
• James Joyce
• Menie Muriel Dowie
• Georges Perec
• Fictional auto/biography
• 21st century fiction
• Forster & Saba

I have also supervised MA by Research work on Joyce, Joyce’s Italian writings; Eliot & Montale, Pinter.

Research interests

My main areas of research are James Joyce and modernism, esp. in relation to Dante and the Middle Ages; postmodernism; and fictional auto/biography. I am also interested in aspects of literature and science, and in the theory and practice of comparative literature. I am currently working on a book on Heterobiography.

Selected publications

• 2009 'Rattling the Cage of Meaning: Primo Levi's The Periodic Table, The Two Cultures, and the Ethical Duty of the Writer', Science and Literature, ed. by Cedric Barfoot and Valeria Tinkler Villani. Rodopi 2009
• 2009 ‘The Anamorphosis of Photography in Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid’. Image technologies in Canadian Literature: Narrative, Film and Photography, ed. by Carmen Concilio and Richard J. Lane. Brussels: Peter Lang, 2009, pp. 31-46.
  
• 2008 Comparative Critical Studies 2-3, 5 (2008), Folly, co-edited with Florian Mussgnug (Department of Italian, UCL). [ISSN 1744-1854]
  
• 2007 'Keeping Our Nerve: Scientific and Historical Paradigms in John Banville's Doctor Copernicus', Primerjalna knjizevnost 30 (2007), Special issue: Zgodovina in njeni literarni zanri / History and Its Literary Genres, ed. by Vanesa Matajc and Gasper Troha, pp. 27-41 (in Slovenian) and pp. 141-157 (in English)
  
• 2006 'Literature and Science. Full Stop?', Colloquium Helveticum, 37 (2006), pp. 55-72
• 2006 ‘Comparative Literature in the Twenty-first Century: A View from Europe and the UK’, Comparative Critical Studies III.1 (2006), Comparative Literature at a Crossroads?, ed. Robert Weninger, pp. 13-23
• 2004 (ed. with Peter Davies) Comparative Critical Studies 1, 3 (2004), Autobiografictions: Comparatist Essays; includes my ‘“Allowing it to speak out of him”: The Heterobiographies of David Malouf, Antonio Tabucchi and Marguerite Yourcenar’, pp. 243-263.
• 2003 ‘Translating the Middle Ages: Modernism and the Ideal of the Common Language’. Translation and Literature, special issue: Translation and Modernism, ed. By Adam Piette. Vol. 12.1, Spring 2003, pp. 41-68.
• 2002 (ed.) Medieval Joyce. Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, European Joyce Studies Series, 2002.
• 2001 Joyce, Dante, and the Poetics of Literary Relations: Language and Meaning in Finnegans Wake. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
  
• 1998 Biografie fittizie di personaggi storici. (Auto)biografia, soggettività, teoria nel romanzo contemporaneo [Fictional Biographies of Historical Characters. (Auto)biography, Subjectivity, Theory in the Contemporary Novel]. Pisa: ETS, 1998.
• 1998 ‘The Artist Paring His Quotations: Aesthetic and Ethical Implications of the Dantean Intertext in Dubliners’. Re-Joycing: New Readings of Joyce’s Dubliners, ed. By Harold Mosher and Rosa Maria Bosinelli, U. of Kentucky P., 1998, pp 228-246.

Professional activities

• General Coordinator of the REELC/ENCLS (European Network for Comparative Literary Studies), 2005-09
• Member of the Planning Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association, 2005-07
• Member of the Executive Committee of the British Comparative Literature Association since 1998
• Member of the Board of Trustees of the International James Joyce Foundation 2000-2006
• Member of the Editorial Board of Comparative Critical Studies
• Peer reviewer for various presses and journals