Italian staff
Outline Biography
After my PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bologna, Italy, in 2004 I worked as Italian Language Assistant in Melbourne, Australia. In 2005-6 I was Visiting Fellow at the Department of Italian and the Center for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University, New York. I joined the University of Edinburgh in 2007 as Lecturer in Italian Studies. In 2008-11 I was Director of the graduate programme in Comparative and General Literature. In 2013 I was promoted to Senior Lecturer.
Research Interests
My main research interests in Modern and Contemporary Italian Studies relate to history of ideas (Gramsci, Vico), literary theory (Pasolini, Collodi, Calvino), Sicilian literature (Lampedusa, Sciascia), and Jewish literature in a comparative perspective (Michelstaedter, Levi). My current research projects are in Italian Baroque and Neo-Baroque Studies, with a particular focus on the connection between literature, music, and visual arts.
Research activity
Graduate supervision
- Modern and Contemporary Italian Studies
- Italian Baroque and Neo-Baroque Studies
- Comparative Literature
- Italian Cultural studies
- Sicilian Literature
Publications
Publications list for Davide Messina
Supervision
Projects supervised by Davide Messina
Teaching
Undergraduate:
- Sicily from Sonnet to Cinema (Italian 4)
- Baroque from Scratch: Modern Italy in a Contemporary Universe (Italian 4)
- Hannibal Lectures: Pasolini and the Cannibal Writers (Italian 4)
- Machiavelli: Prince and Prejudice (Italian 2)
- The Firefly Effect: Sciascia, Majorana, and the Moro Affair (Italian 2)
- Metrics Revolutions: Poetry and Society in Italy 1963-1993 (Italian 2)
- The Leopard: History, Novel, Film (Italian 1)
- Italian Style: Dal ‘500 alla 500 (Italian 1)
Postgraduate:
- What is Comparative Literature? (MSc Comparative and General Literature)
- Writing (and) History (MSc Comparative and General Literature)
- European Intellectuals: Antonio Gramsci (MSc European Studies)
This article was published on Oct 30, 2012