Maria Rosaria Corvino is a PhD Student at the University of Lisbon’s Department of Romance Literatures. She is also affiliated with the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp) and the research group MORPHE Text and Memory, Comparative World Literature subgroup. She holds a degree in Publishing and Writing from the University of Rome La Sapienza. Her dissertation focused on “Portuguese publishing: a historical and cultural route from Salazar’s censorship to contemporaneousness”. Maria’s current research centers on Portuguese and Italian literature of the 20th century, specifically examining the representation of rural spaces between 1940 and 1960. Her approach incorporates ecocritical and geocritical methodologies. Additionally, she serves as a member of the editorial committee for the academic magazine “Estrema: interdisciplinary journal of Humanities” at CEComp. She is also a member of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture, and Environment (EASCLE).
Areas of research
Literary representation and social phenomena of rural landscape, in Portugal and Italy (1930-1960)
Literature and ecological issues
Portuguese and Italian Neorealism
Ecocriticism
Geocriticism
Selected publications
2023. “Testimone di una lontana terra: gli scritti brasiliani di Domenico Rea”. In V. Salerno, O. Belissimo, E. Rimolo (ed.), L’estro furioso. Domenico Rea da Napoli a Nofi”, 167-178. Napoli: Federico II Press.
2021. “Porquê sempre o mar?” A simbologia da água, do barco e da praia como espaço de diálogo intertextual entre Cecília Meireles, Glória de Sant’Anna e Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen in Caderno Seminal, n. 38, Escrita de Mulheres: poesia.
