Fellows & Staff

Dr Nicola Gardini

MA, PhD Lecturer in Italian nicola.gardini@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Academic Background

Undergraduate degree: Università Statale di Milano, Laurea in Classics, with a thesis on Ammianus Marcellinus (1988)

PhD in Comparative Literature: New York University, with a thesis on the imitation of classical lyric poetry in Renaissance Italy, France and England (1995).

I was a lecturer at State University of Palermo (1999-2006), visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York (2000 and 2002), at NYU in Florence (2000-2005), at IULM, Feltre (2003 and 2004) and at Università Cattolica, Milan (2005).

I obtained a Research Fellowship at the Italian Academy, Columbia University (Fall 2005)

Undergraduate Teaching

Renaissance and the classical legacy, XIX- and XX-century poetry; special authors: Petrarch, Leopardi, Zanzotto; poetic translation. I am interested in close textual work and in exploring the ways in which tradition is formed and literature interacts with national imagination.

Postgraduate Teaching

Tradition, translation, Renaissance, modern poetry, history of criticism.

Research Interests

The Renaissance; Stylistics and poetics; poetry; autobiographical fiction; translation from Latin and Greek, and from English. I am currently working on a book exploring lacuna and omission in the construction of literary sense.

Other Interests

I write poetry and fiction, and I paint. I published some collections of verse and three novels. My new novel is due to be published some time next year.

I co-edit the monthly magazine "Poesia", based in Milan.

Selected Bibliography

Academic writings

Rinascimento, Einaudi, 2010

Com'è fatta una poesia, Sironi, 2007

Poesie di Ted Hughes, Meridiani Mondadori, 2008

History and Pastoral in the Structure of Leopardi's Canti, in "Modern Language Review", 2008, 103 (1), pp. 76-92

Das Homosexuelle in Soldati, in "Studi novecenteschi", Anno 2007, n. 1, pp. 195-208

Uno sguardo da Caprona: Pascoli e le terre d'oltremare, in "Milano da leggere. Leggere l'altro. Atti del Convegno letterario ADI-SD", a cura di Barbara Peroni, s. e., Milano, 2007, pp. 56-69

Fiction

I baroni, Feltrinelli, 2009
Lo sconosciuto, Sironi, 2007
Così ti ricordi di me, Sironi, 2003

Poetry

Le parti dell'amore, sedizioni, 2010
Le nuvole, Crocetti, 2007
Sag Harbor, d'if, 2003
Nind, Edizioni Atelier, 2002
Atlas, Crocetti, 1998
La primavera, in Nuovi Poeti Italiani 4, Einaudi, 1995

See also the Faculty of Modern Languages website and Dr Gardini's personal website.