Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca

Thesis title: Terrorism and Realism in Contemporary Italian Literature: the Victim as a Literary Character and a Cultural Paradigm of the Years of Lead

Italian Studies

Year of study: 2

  • Department of European Languages and Cultures
  • School of Language, Literatures and Cultures

Contact details

PhD supervisor:

Address

Street

50 George Square

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH8 9LH

Background

Alessandra Pellegrini De Luca obtained her Master’s degree in Italian Studies at the University of Bologna in 2015, with a dissertation on Leonardo Sciascia and the Italian terrorism of the 1970s. She is currently pursuing her research at the University of Edinburgh with a AHRC-funded PhD on 'Terrorism and Realism in Contemporary Italian literature: the Victim as a Literary Character and a Cultural Paradigm of the Years of Lead' (supervisors Dr Davide Messina and Prof Federica Pedriali). She is also a freelance journalist for Italian newspapers. 

Qualifications

Bachelor Degree in Humanities (University of Bologna, 2013), Master Degree in Italian Studies (University of Bologna, 2015)

Undergraduate teaching

She is a Tutor in the following courses:

  • Foundation Italian 1 (Italian language)
  • Oral for Italian (Italian speaking)

Current project grants

AHRC SGSAH DTP Scholarship (2017-2019): http://www.sgsah.ac.uk/research/ahrc17-18/headline_563085_en.html

Organiser

  • March 15, 2018, University of Edinburgh, co-organized with Dr Davide Messina, funded by Society of Italian Studies, Italian Cultural Institute (Edinburgh), University of Edinburgh: 'Years of Lead Reloaded | 40 Years After Aldo Moro’s Kidnapping'

       Screening of 'Buongiorno, notte' (Goodmorning, Night) by Marco Bellocchio,  2003 

       Invited Speakers: Giorgio Vasta, author of 'Il Tempo Materiale' ('Time on My Hands), 2008; Professor Philip Cooke (University of Stratchlyde)

       https://iicedimburgo.esteri.it/iic_edimburgo/it/gli_eventi/calendario/2018/03/years-of-lead-reloaded-40-years.html

 

Participant

  • University of Edinburgh (UK), November 15, 2017. UG-LED Italian Research Seminar: 'The Myth of the ‘Betrayed Resistance’ in 1970s Italy'
  • University of South Carolina (USA), February 15-18, 2018. 1968 in Global Perspectives: '1968 and Political Terrorism in Contemporary Italian and German Literature'

  • University of Sussex (UK), April 5-6, 2018. SIS Themed Conference 2018, Resistance in Italian Culture: Literature, Film and Politics: 'Resistance and Left-Wing Terrorism in Contemporary Italian Literature'

  • University of Rome "La Sapienza" (Italy), June 26-28th. Past (Im)Perfect Continuous: trans-cultural articulations of the Postmemory of WWII: 'Postmemorial articulations of the Italian Resistance in ideological terms'.