Attività di dottorato
Laureata nel 2002 in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne (Università di Firenze) con una tesi su London Fields di Martin Amis: The Contest for Authorship (rel. prof. Susan Payne), ha ottenuto una borsa di studio Erasmus di 9 mesi (University College, Cork) e una Visiting Fellowship presso l'Institute of Commonwealth Studies (London) per studi nell’ambito della letteratura australiana contemporanea. Oltre alla tematica della tesi di dottorato, gli ambiti della sua ricerca includono l’opera dello scrittore Iain Sinclair, la teoria della critica letteraria, il rapporto tra letteratura e filosofia.
PhD activities and research interests
She graduated from the University of Florence in 2002 with a thesis on Martin Amis: London Fields di Martin Amis: The Context for Authorship. During her undergraduate years, Michela was granted an Erasmus scholarship and spent one academic year at the University College of Cork and was also awarded a Visiting Fellowship by the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (University College, London), for research in the field of contemporary Australian literature. Beside her doctoral dissertation, her research interests are: the writing of Iain Sinclair; theory of literary criticism; literature and philosophy. She has presented the following papers: ‘I must have screamed things’: Voice as Bodily and Creative Threshold in William Golding’s The Double Tongue, BCLA Conference (Goldsmith College, London, January 2005); ‘Smiling on chaos’: Occult Patterns and the Random Accumulation Of Junk In Iain Sinclair’s Downriver, Chaos and Order Conference (University of Reims, March 2005); ‘He was drowning in physical detail’: Memorialising the Cityscape Between Socio-Political Critique and the Emergence of Occult Patterns in Iain Sinclair’s Downriver, Convegno AIA (Cagliari, September 2005).
Conferenze
- settembre 2005: relazione al convegno AIA “Islands of the Self”, su ‘He was drowning in physical detail’: Memorialising the Cityscape Between Socio-Political Critique and the Emergence of Occult Patterns in Iain Sinclair’s Downriver, Cagliari.
- marzo 2005: relazione alla conferenza “Chaos and Order”, su ‘Smiling on chaos’: Occult Patterns and the Random Accumulation Of Junk in Iain Sinclair’s Downriver, University of Reims.
- gennaio 2005: relazione alla BCLA Conference “Boundaries”, su ‘I must have screamed things’: Voice as Bodily and Creative Threshold in William Golding’s The Double Tongue, Goldsmith College, London.
Pubblicazioni
2006
- in stampa, trad. di, L’interpretazione reciproca: i viaggi di Margaret Fuller a Roma e Firenze, in L. Borghi (a cura di), Ritorno a Firenze, Le Lettere, Firenze.
- in stampa, trad. di, Frances Trollope e Firenze: alla ricerca della propria voce, in L. Borghi (a cura di), Ritorno a Firenze, cit.
- in stampa, ‘He was drowning in physical detail’: Memorialising the Cityscape Between Socio-Political Critique and the Emergence of Occult Patterns in Iain Sinclair’s Downriver, in Atti del Convegno AIA “Islands of the Self” (Cagliari, settembre 2005).
- in stampa, ‘Smiling on chaos’: Occult Patterns and the Random Accumulation Of Junk in Iain Sinclair’s, in Imaginares, Presses Universitaires de Reims.
