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
- Email: Alessandra.Pdeluca@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisor:
Address
- Street
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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)
Participant
- University of Edinburgh (UK), November 15, 2017. UG-LED Italian Research Seminar: 'The Myth of the ‘Betrayed Resistance’ in 1970s Italy'
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University of South Carolina (USA), February 15-18, 2018. 1968 in Global Perspectives: '1968 and Political Terrorism in Contemporary Italian and German Literature'
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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'
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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'.