Marzia D’Amico (they/she) is a Junior Researcher (FCT) at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp), Universidade de Lisboa. Their research explores the interplay between tradition and experimentalism in its forms, expressions, languages, and codes, with a focus on the socio-political implication behind non-male subjects production of verbovocovisual poetry. They hold a PhD in Italian Literature from the University of Oxford (2019), where they investigated genre revision and women’s authorship in 20th century Italy through an in-depth analysis of the literary mechanism adopted by Amelia Rosselli and Patrizia Vicinelli’s intentional epic genre deconstruction. They work as a translator of poetry, narrative, and essay from English into Italian. Their original prose, poetry, and cultural contributions featured on radio, on paper, and online. They collaboratively run a monthly open access newsletter on transnational feminisms (Ghinea).
Areas of research
Italian poetry
Interarts studies
Poetic experimentalism
Feminist artistic theories and practices
Translation studies
Selected publications
“The Space of Mourning: Elettra’s mise en abyme” in A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry (ed by A. Bardazzi, F. Giusti, E. Tandello; Legenda)
“Lucia Marcucci: Visual Poetry Against Social Violence” Vista (10)
Gianluca Rizzo, “Poetry on Stage: The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde”, Annali d’Italianistica, 39, pp. 608-610.
“Amelia Rosselli. Il movimento come ridefinizione dell’Io” in Tra due rive. Autrici del Novecento europeo sul confino e sull’esilio (ed by P. Del Zoppo, R. Gangemi, Aracne editore) pp.185-196.
“Acchiappashpirt: xenoglossia concreta, performance sonora, poesia carnosa” La poesia contemporanea italiana: ipotesi di metodo e indagini storiografiche (Enthymema, 25) pp. 519-532.
