SPANDRI ELENA ANNA

Elena Anna
Spandri
Dipartimento di Filologia e Critica delle Letterature Antiche e Moderne
Professore Ordinario

Office hours

  • Wednesday from 12:00 to 13:00
    Place: Palazzo San Niccolò, piano 4, studio 441.
    Note: Ricevimento online su appuntamento: https://meet.google.com/hso-paeh-irc

Contacts

elena.spandri@unisi.it
0577232195 [int.2195]

Curriculum Vitae

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Teaching activities

Completion accademic year: 2025/2026

ENGLISH AND ANGLOPHONE LITERATURE I
Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2025/2026
ENGLISH LITERATURE A
Course year: 2 Second cycle degree (Laurea Magistrale) ITALIAN STUDIES A.Y. 2024/2025

Completion accademic year: 2024/2025

ENGLISH LITERATURE A
Course year: 2 Second cycle degree (Laurea Magistrale) ITALIAN STUDIES A.Y. 2023/2024
ENGLISH LITERATURE I A
Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2024/2025

Completion accademic year: 2023/2024

ENGLISH LITERATURE A
Course year: 2 Second cycle degree (Laurea Magistrale) ITALIAN STUDIES A.Y. 2022/2023
ENGLISH LITERATURE I A
Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2023/2024

Completion accademic year: 2021/2022

ENGLISH LITERATURE A
Course year: 2 Second cycle degree (Laurea Magistrale) MODERN LITERATURES A.Y. 2020/2021
ENGLISH LITERATURE I A
Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2021/2022

Completion accademic year: 2020/2021

ENGLISH LITERATURE A
Course year: 2 Second cycle degree (Laurea Magistrale) MODERN LITERATURES A.Y. 2019/2020
ENGLISH LITERATURE I A
Course year: 1 First cycle degree (DM 270) STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY A.Y. 2020/2021

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Research

Recent Publications

“The story that gave this land its life. The legend of Bon Bibi in Amitav Ghosh’s Sundarbans Trilogy”, in Myths of Origin. Literary and Cultural Patterns, eds. E. Di Rocco and C. Lombardi (Brill, 2024).

“Ricordare la storia che non abbiamo scritto: stranieri e girmityas nella trilogia di Amitav Ghosh”, in La pratica del commento 4: frontiere, innesti, migrazioni, ed. R. de Rogatis (Pacini, 2023).

“Performing the ‘miasma’ of Indian Partition. Terror and romance in Howard Brenton’s Drawing the Line”, in La violenza nel teatro contemporaneo. Lingue e linguaggi a confronto, eds. P. Bellomi, C. Francellini, M.B. Lenzi, A. Milani, N. Scaffai (FUP/USiena Press, 2023).

“Indian-Italian Connections in the Risorgimento. The Cases of Lazzaro and Leopoldo Sebastiani”, La questione romantica. Nuova Serie, vol. 15 (1-2), 2023.“William Hazlitt and the Ironies of Liberalism”, in Imprinting Anglo-Italian Relations in The Liberal”, eds. S. Baiesi, L.M. Crisafulli, C. Farese (Peter Lang, 2023).

“The Dangers of a Single Story. Eredità coloniali e voci anglofone”, in Radici e sconfinamenti: in viaggio tra lingue e culture, eds. I. Ferron and J. Pérez-Ugena (Tipografica Senese, 2022).

 

Selected publications:

  • Spandri, E. (2020). Wordsworth, memory culture and the ubiquitous life of things. LA QUESTIONE ROMANTICA, 12(1-2), 31-50. - view more
  • Spandri, E. (a cura di). (2019). Twixt Land and Sea. Island Poetics in Anglophone Literatures.. Roma : Artemide. - view more
  • Spandri, E.A. (2019). BrexLit? Julian Barnes’s Puzzled Isle. In E. Spandri (a cura di), Twixt land and sea : islands poetics in anglophone literatures (pp. 187-209). Roma : Artemide. - view more
  • Spandri, E.A. (2018). The Politics of Sympathy in the Anglo-Indian Romantic Discourse on Religion. LA QUESTIONE ROMANTICA, 10(1-2), 19-36. - view more
  • Spandri, E.A. (2018). Between culture shock and Franciscan ecology. Wordsworth's last encounter with Italy. In S.C. Serena Baiesi (a cura di), Romantic Dialectics: Culture, Gender, Theater : Essays in Honor of Lilla Maria Crisafulli (pp. 63-79). New York : Peter Lang. - view more
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