Davide Messina
Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies
- Department of European Languages and Cultures
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 3643
- Email: D.Messina@ed.ac.uk
- Web: Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Address
- Street
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Room 3.27
50 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LH
Background
I graduated in Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy, with periods of undergraduate study in Paris, Berlin and Jerusalem. After a Master's degree in Cultural Sciences at the International School for Advanced Studies San Carlo, Italy, I gained a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Bologna. I pursued my post-doctoral research in Italian studies at Columbia University, New York, where I also became a Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Comparative Literature and Society. I came to the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in Italian Studies, and served multiple times as Head of Italian and Director of the MSc in Comparative and General Literature. I am now Professor of Italian and Comparative Studies. For my work and my collaborations, the Italian institutions kindly awarded me the honorary title of Cavaliere dell'Ordine della Stella d'Italia.
Undergraduate teaching
- Italian by Heart: Love Songs from Dante to De André
- Performing Europa in Modern and Contemporary Italy
- Sicily from Sonnet to Cinema
- The Italian Baroque: Literature, Science, and the Arts
- Hannibal Lectures: Pasolini and the Cannibal Writers
- Lampedusa and Stendhal: Prose Fiction in Comparative Perspective
- Machiavelli: Prince and Prejudice
- The Firefly Effect: Sciascia, Majorana, and the Moro Affair
- Metrics Revolutions: Poetry and Society in Italy 1963-1993
- The Leopard: History, Novel, and Film
- Italian Styles: Dal ‘500 alla 500
Postgraduate teaching
- What is Comparative Literature?’ (MSc Comparative and General Literature)
- Writing (and) History: Holocaust Literature (MSc Comparative and General Literature)
- Comparative Semiotics: From Sign to Text (MSc Comparative and General Literature)
- Visual Semiotics: Image, Meaning, Movement (MSc Intermediality)
- European Intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci (MSc European Studies)
- Portfolio of Literary Translation (MSc Literary Translation)
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
- Modern and Contemporary Italian Studies
- Comparative Literature and Arts
- Philosophy and Semiotics
Research summary
My research interests span a wide range of authors and topics from early-modern to contemporary Italian studies, engaging literary history and theory with cultural studies and the arts. Main research areas include modern and contemporary Italian studies, comparative literature and arts, cultural studies, philosophy and semiotics.
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La retroguardia del Paradiso: Pasolini e la lingua del futuro
(17 pages)
In:
Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 40, pp. 27-43
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
«Sol che sempre verna»: Dante e l’eloquenza creola
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Narcissus and the moon: Parallax in early modern images
In:
Signata: Annales des sémiotiques / Annals of Semiotics, vol. 12
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Snowflakes and shadows: Giordano Bruno after Dick Higgins
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
Condizioni di felicità: La performatività retroattiva di Petrolio
(10 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Blind windows: Leopardi with Rothko
In:
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/08905495.2018.1545428
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Neobaroque Festino: Modern Italy and Latin American postmodernity
In:
estetica, studi e ricerche, vol. VIII, pp. 135-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14648/90549
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Pasolini et son chant du signe: Écriture, cinéma, musique
(162 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Barthes et Pasolini, la recherche du Relatif
(27 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Screening the Pirandello effect: Third-genre performativity in La canzone dell'amore
(18 pages)
In:
Pirandello Studies, vol. 36, pp. 31-48
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
L’arco tragico del Principe: Machiavelli e l’intrigo poetico
(24 pages)
In:
Italian Studies, vol. 71, pp. 287-310
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2016.1189248
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Il sogno della Grazia: Pasolini lettore di sé e il romanzo poikilos
(18 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Il giallo e il rosa: La civetta politicamente scorretta di Sciascia
(16 pages)
In:
Todomodo, vol. V, pp. 167-182
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Seicento contemporaneo: Sul fondo oscuro del romanzo storico italiano
(16 pages)
In:
Between, vol. V
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Leggere e tradurre Primo Levi: Il poema e l’enunciazione
(25 pages)
In:
Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies, vol. 48, pp. 452-476
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0014585814542930
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Antonio Malatesti, La Tina : Equivoci Rusticali
(124 pages)
Research output: › Scholarly edition (Published) -
Introduction
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Corpus XXX: Pasolini, Petrolio, Salò
(314 pages)
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Post Philology: Petrolio to the Letter
(130 pages)
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Dissonante organica: di un tono gramsciano negli studi culturali italiani’
In:
Italica, vol. 89, pp. 286-305
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)