Dr Nicola Gardini
MA PhD; University Lecturer in Italian
Email: nicola.gardini@mod-langs
Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages Website and Personal Website
Academic Background
Undergraduate degree: Università Statale di Milano, Laurea in Classics, with a thesis on Ammianus Marcellinus (1988)
PhD in Comparative Literature: New York University, with a thesis on the imitation of classical lyric poetry in Renaissance Italy, France and England (1995).
I was a lecturer at State University of Palermo (1999-2006), visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York (2000 and 2002), at NYU in Florence (2000-2005), at IULM, Feltre (2003 and 2004) and at Università Cattolica, Milan (2005).
I obtained a Research Fellowship at the Italian Academy, Columbia University (Fall 2005)
Undergraduate Teaching
Renaissance and the classical legacy, XIX- and XX-century poetry; special authors: Petrarch, Leopardi, Zanzotto; poetic translation. I am interested in close textual work and in exploring the ways in which tradition is formed and literature interacts with national imagination.
Postgraduate Teaching
Tradition, translation, Renaissance, modern poetry, history of criticism.
Research Interests
The Renaissance; Stylistics and poetics; poetry; autobiographical fiction; translation from Latin and Greek, and from English. I am currently working on a book exploring lacuna and omission in the construction of literary sense.
Other Interests
I write poetry and fiction, and I paint. I published some collections of verse and three novels. My new novel is due to be published some time next year.
I co-edit the monthly magazine "Poesia", based in Milan.
Selected Bibliography
Academic Writings
- Per una biblioteca indispensabile. 52 classici della letteratura italiana, Einaudi, 2011
- Rinascimento, Einaudi, 2010
- Com'è fatta una poesia, Sironi, 2007
- Poesie di Ted Hughes, Meridiani Mondadori, 2008
- History and Pastoral in the Structure of Leopardi's Canti, in "Modern Language Review", 2008, 103 (1), pp. 76-92
- Das Homosexuelle in Soldati, in "Studi novecenteschi", Anno 2007, n. 1, pp. 195-208
- Uno sguardo da Caprona: Pascoli e le terre d'oltremare, in "Milano da leggere. Leggere l'altro. Atti del Convegno letterario ADI-SD", a cura di Barbara Peroni, s. e., Milano, 2007, pp. 56-69
Fiction
- I baroni, Feltrinelli, 2009
- Lo sconosciuto, Sironi, 2007
- Così ti ricordi di me, Sironi, 2003
Poetry
- Le parti dell'amore, sedizioni, 2010
- Le nuvole, Crocetti, 2007
- Sag Harbor, d'if, 2003
- Nind, Edizioni Atelier, 2002
- Atlas, Crocetti, 1998
- La primavera, in Nuovi Poeti Italiani 4, Einaudi, 1995
A complete list of Dr Gardini's writings (both academic and creative) can be viewed on his website
