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Professor of Italian Cultural History
Fellow of Pembroke College
Tutor of Italian at Merton, Queen's and Wadham College Tel No. 01865 276 456
Fax No. 01865 276 418
Correspondence to:
Pembroke College, Oxford, OX1 1DW Department Information
Modern Language Faculty
www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Guido Bonsaver, M.A., Ph.D. (University of Reading) Research Interests
20th century Italian culture: particularly interested in the relationship between political history and narrative. Currently working on censorship during the Fascist regime and on immigration in contemporary Italian cinema.
Co-ordinator of the interdisciplinary network "Italian Studies at Oxford" (ISO): http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/.
PI of the ISO research project "Destination Italy: Representing Migration in Contemporary Media and Narrative" (Leverhulme Trust): http://www.italianstudies.ox.ac.uk/research/migration_project.
Collaborates on Italian cinema with "Sight & Sound" (BFI) and BBC World Service.
A video of Guido discussing his research in modern Italian culture is available at:
http://www.ox.ac.uk/research/humanities/humanities_video.html
Teaching
C19th to contemporary Italian history, literature and cinema. Graduate Teaching
MSt in Medieval and Modern Languages. MSt in Film Aesthetics Publications
Books
Vita e omicidio di Gaetano Pilati: 1881-1925 (Florence, Cesati, 2010)
Elio Vittorini: Letteratura in tensione (Florence, Cesati, 2008)
Censorship and Literature in Fascist Italy (Toronto University Press, 2007) - American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize for 2007
Kaos: Luigi Pirandello e i fratelli Taviani (Palermo, L'Epos, 2007)
Elio Vittorini: The Writer and the Written (Leeds, Northern Universities Press, 2000)
Il mondo scritto: Forme e ideologia nella narrativa di Italo Calvino (Turin, Tirrenia, 1995) Edited books
With Martin McLaughlin and Franca Pellegrini, Sinergie narrative: Cinema e letteratura nell'Italia contemporanea (Florence, Cesati, 2008)
With Robert Gordon, Culture, Censorship and the State in 20th Century Italy (Oxford, Legenda, 2005) Chapters and articles
'Themes and Challenges for Italian Film Studies', The Italianist, 30.2 (2010), 287-289
'Who's Shooting Whom? Screening Immigration in Contemporary Italian Cinema', in: L. Lepschy and A. Ledgeway (eds.): Into and Out of Italy: Lingua e cultura della migrazione italiana (Perugia, Guerra, 2010), 87-98
'Fascism and the Italian Intelligentsia’', in: R. Bosworth (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Fascism (Oxford University Press, 2009), 109-126
'Conversazione in Sicilia e la censura fascista', in: Il demone dell\'anticipazione: Cultura, letteratura, editoria in Elio Vittorini (Milano: Fondazione Mondadori, 2009), 13-30
'Cent`anni di Elio Vittorini', La Rivista dei Libri, 19.3 (2009), 31-34
'Elio Vittorini e i fertili fallimenti del dopoguerra', in: R. Bertone (ed.), Un secolo con Vittorini (Turin: Trauben, 2009), 9-18
'Dall'uomo al divo: Un'intervista con Paolo Sorrentino', The Italianist, 29.2 (2009), 325-337
'Mussolinijev fašizem, literarna cenzura in Vatikan (Mussolini’s Fascism, Literary Censorship and the Vatican)', Primerjalna Književnost, 31.1 (2008), 43-54
'Dalle novelle ai film: un’intervista con i fratelli Taviani', in: La novella di Pirandello: Dramma film musica fumetto (Pesaro, 2007), 263-272
'Vittore Branca e la fascistissima Firenze', The Italianist, 26.2 (2006), 34-47
'Raccontare "all'americana": Io non ho paura tra autodiegesi letteraria e soggettiva cinematografica', in: Bertoni R. (ed.) Narrativa italiana recente/Recent Italian Fiction (Turin, 2005), 53-73
'Fascist Censorship on Literature and the Case of Elio Vittorini', Modern Italy, 8.2 (2003), 165-186
'‘Sconcertante ma accettabile': il progetto Gulliver e la redazione italiana ', Riga, 21 (2003), 280-292
'Città senza tempo: cronologia 'debole' e tracce benjaminiane in "Le città invisibili" di Italo Calvino', Italianistica, 52 (2002), 48-69
'The Egocentric Cassandra of the Left: Representations of Politics in the Films of Nanni Moretti', The Italianist, 20-21 (2001-2002), 65-88
'La carne, la morte e il chewing gum nella narrativa di Alessandro Baricco', Nuova prosa, 27 (2000), 56-62
'Calvino e l’ultimo Vittorini: Paternità e pratiche letterarie', Proteo, 5 (1999), 35-44
'Vittorini’s American Translations: Parallels, Borrowings and Betrayals ', Italian Studies, 53 (1998), 68-97
'Calvino tra Budapest e Parigi (1956-1966) ', in: Italo Calvino: Le défi au labyrinthe (Caen, 1998), 45-60
'Un Gran Lombardo sbarca a Milano: ‘Il negozio di stoffe’ (con un inedito di E. Vittorini)', in: In amicizia. Essays in Honour of Giulio Lepschy (The Italianist, 1997), 45-65
'Dialect, Culture and Politics: The Northern League(s)', Journal of the Institute of Romance Studies, 4 (1996), 97-107
'Cities of the Imagination: Traces of Italo Calvino in Jeanette Winterson’s Fiction', The Italianist, 15 (1995), 208-226
'Il menabò, Calvino and the Avanguardie: Some Observations on the Literary Debate in the Sixties', Italian Studies, 50 (1995), 46-67
'Il Calvino semiotico: dal romanzo naturalistico all opera come macrotesto', The Italianist, 14 (1994), 160-194
'George Orwell ai microfoni della B.B.C.', Quaderni di lingua e letteratura, 15 (1990), 25-41
Forthcoming books
Mussolini censore: Storie di letteratura, dissenso e ipocrisie (under contract with Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2011)
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