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Outline Biography
- Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies
- Director and General Editor of The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies
- Research adviser for Italian Studies
- Postgraduate adviser
Appointments, awards, fellowships
- promotion to a Personal Chair (2008)
- winner Selezione Arché Prize 2007 with La farmacia degli incurabili
- finalist Tassoni Award 2007 with La farmacia degli incurabili
- special category Città d’Isernia Award 2007 with La farmacia degli incurabili
- runner-up Soldati Award 2006 with Piccola euforia pirandelliana
- winner Nuove Lettere Award 2005 with Prefazione con firma e altra sintomatologia sveviana
- Arts and Humanities Research Council – Research Leave (2005)
- Visiting Fellow, Harvard University (2005)
- promotion to Reader (2004)
- Visiting Professor, Harvard University (2001)
Research Interests
Federica Pedriali researches primarily in the Modern period. While recently completing two books on Gadda, she worked on issues of literary theory, in particular narratology, with a cross-over to continental philosophy, especially Derrida. This resulted in a further book, La farmacia degli incurabili. Da Collodi a Calvino (2006). She is the editor and co-editor of several volumes, among them A Pocket Gadda Encyclopedia (2008, 2004, 2002), Vested Voices II. Creating with Transvestism: from Bertolucci to Boccaccio (2007), Disharmony Established, Festschrift in Honour of Gian Carlo Roscioni (2004), Montale Readings (2000). Her current book project, on textual saturation and irregularity in Bruno, Cervantes, Sterne and Gadda, focuses on literary theory, history of ideas and literary movements as can be queried and problematised through deconstructive readings of primary texts. Since 2000, as Director and General Editor of the Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies she has originated a series of innovative research projects attracting international collaboration well beyond Gadda studies. In the same capacity she also actively encourages postgraduate student involvement in the Journal’s activities, thus providing valuable academic training and publishing opportunities for both Edinburgh and non Edinburgh-based young scholars.
Research activity
Graduate supervision
Literary theory, narratology, theatre studies, translation theory, digital philology, electronic publishing, most 19th / 20th century Italian literature.
Publications
Publications list for Federica G. Pedriali
Teaching
Graduate taught courses
- MSc in European Studies
- MSc in European Theatre
- MSc in Theory and Practice of Translation
Undergraduate courses
- Fiction from the Deep. Victorian fathers and the Svevo (Copernican) revolution (Hons option)
- Cleaning up “The Mess”. Gadda as test (hard test) for theory (any theory) (Hons option)
- Sub-hons modules in Modern Italian Studies
This article was published on Oct 30, 2012