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CULTURAL THEORIST 
ACADEMIC & EDUCATOR

Dr Emanuela Patti (MA UCL; PhD University of Birmingham) was born in Turin (Italy) and lives in Edinburgh (UK). She is a Lecturer in Italian at the University of Edinburgh. Her research has been funded by the AHRC and the University of Birmingham.

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CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON 

DIGITAL CULTURES & HUMANITIES

Areas of expertise

OPERAPERTA

Comparative Cultural Studies in the digital age

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CRITICAL DIGITAL PEDAGOGIES & DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Transcultural and translingual approaches to digital humanities

Areas of expertise: digital literacy in Modern Languages; digital plurilingualism and cultural diversity; digital methods for teaching foreign languages and cultures; intermedia research methodologies; Italian digital humanities.

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ITALIAN ELECTRONIC LITERATURE

From Umberto Eco's Opera Aperta to our days

Areas of expertise: Italian Neoavanguardia; theories of open textuality; systems theory; critical theory and digital cultural studies; hybrid genres (including computer poetry, video poetry, net poetry, blooks, collaborative writing, digital poetry, interactive fiction,  social network novels), intermediality theory and practice, digital popular culture.

Case studies: Nanni Balestrini, Caterina Davinio, Gianni Toti, Enrico Colombini, Michela Murgia, Roberto Saviano, Wu Ming, Tommaso Pincio, Scrittura Industriale Collettiva, Kai Zen, Francesco Pecoraro, Fabio Viola, Fabrizio Venerandi.

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COMPARATIVE DIGITAL CULTURAL STUDIES

Critical theories and artistic practices of intermediality and digitality

Areas of expertise: critical approaches to digital media and cultures; digital alienation.

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COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

& CULTURAL STUDIES

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THE CULTURAL APPROPRIATION OF DANTE IN 20TH CENTURY ITALIAN LITERATURE

Dante, Pasolini and impegno (1940s-1970s)

Key words: popular culture, subalternity, identity politics, the Other, politics of aesthetics, language and national identity in post-war Italy; plurilingualism in literary fiction; Pier Paolo Pasolini's oeuvre; figural realism in cinema; intermediality.

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ITALIAN NEOAVANGUARDIA

Intermedia experimentation and impegno in neo-avant-garde reviews

Key words: interart, the politics of aesthetics, intermedia discourse

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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI
(1922-1975)

Critical theory and artistic practice

Key words: the Other, power relations, post-war impegno, minority languages, literature and ideology, plurilingualism, gender and sexuality, subalternity, intermediality.

FEATURED TALKS

Pasolini After Dante
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Pasolini After Dante

The "Divine Mimesis" and the Politics of Representation A lecture by Emanuela Patti, Royal Holloway, University of London In the early 1960s, Pier Paolo Pasolini started his rewriting of Dante’s Divine Comedy, La Divina Mimesis. The aim of the project was to make it a new contemporary Comedia, including circles, sins, and characters inspired by Dante. Yet the project was never completed as originally planned. In Fall 1975, Pasolini decided to publish the notes he had written over a decade as a ‘document’. The final text was published by Einaudi in November, a few days after Pasolini’s death. What has been considered for decades as a minor and ultimately failed work in Pasolini’s career is probably the most significant retrospective testimony the author left us on his concept of realism and his authorial subject. La Divina Mimesis is in fact the outward sign of a sustained dialogue with Dante on representation, whose roots reach down into the early 1950s. In that period, Dante’s influence took the form of a certain ‘Dantean realism’ in his prose and poetry, after the reading of Dante’s objective language, experimentalism, and plurilingualism by the Italian philologist and literary critic Gianfranco Contini (1912–90). In the early 1960s, it took the form of a certain ‘figural realism’ in his cinema, after the German philologist and comparative scholar Erich Auerbach (1892–1957) and his concepts of Dante’s ‘figura’ and ‘mingling of styles’. In this talk, Emanuela Patti explores some examples of Pasolini’s appropriation of Dante’s realism and how they relate to postwar Italian debates on the questione della lingua (the language question, i.e. what is our national language?), impegno and ‘otherness’ (Gramsci), experimentalism, and intermediality. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York University March 8, 2019
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