Dr M. Gragnolati
Manuele Gragnolati, M.A. (M.A. University of Paris IV Sorbonne, Ph.D. Columbia University)Reader in Italian, Fellow of Somerville College
Tutor at Lady Margaret Hall and St Catherine's College
Address: Somerville College, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6HD
Email: manuele.gragnolati@some.ox.ac.ukResearch
Manuele Gragnolati studied Classical Philology, Medieval Studies and Italian Literature in Pavia, Paris and New York. Before joining the Oxford faculty in 2003, he taught Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. A significant part of his research focuses on Dante and medieval literature and culture. His book Experiencing the Afterlife investigates the relationship between identity and corporeality in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century eschatological representations. He has co-edited a special issue of the journal Comunicazioni sociali on medieval understandings of physical pain (Il corpo passionato, with C. Bino, 2003) and a volume on the concept of the resurrection of the body in Western culture (Il corpo glorioso, with C. Bino and C. Bernardi, 2006). He also explored the intersections between language, textuality and subjectivity in medieval and modern authors, collaborated with Teodolinda Barolini on an edition of Dante's Rime (Milan: Rizzoli, 2009), and published essays on Bonvesin da la Riva, Dante's Vita Nuova, Guido Cavalcanti, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Giovanni Pascoli, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Leopardi, Cesare Pavese, Elsa Morante, Giorgio Pressburger. His current projects deal with notions of the apocalypse, medieval concepts of desire and contemporary appropriations of Dante. He serves as Advisor to the Director at the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry.Teaching
Medieval Italian literature, especially lyric poetry of the thirteenth century, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio; the development of the Italian sonnet; Elsa Morante; Pier Vittorio Tondelli.Selected Publications | View all publications
Editor, with Sara Fortuna, The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's "Aracoeli" (Oxford: Legenda, 2009)With Sara Fortuna, '"Attaccando al suo capezzolo le mie labbra ingorde": corpo, linguaggio e soggettività da Dante ad Aracoeli di Elsa Morante', Nuova corrente, 55 (2008)
'Nostalgia in Heaven: Embraces, Affection and Identity in Dante’s Comedy', in Dante and the Human Body, eds. John Barnes and Jennifer Petrie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007)
'Gluttony and the Antrhopology of Pain in Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio', in History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person, eds. Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)
'La Scrittura rossa, il Purgatorio e la forza del dolore: per un dialogo tra Bonvesin da la Riva e Dante', in Dialoghi con Dante. Riscritture e ricodificazioni della Commedia, eds. Erminia Ardissino and Sabrina Stroppa (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007)
'La scrittura, l’amore e la morte. Per una lettura leopardiana dei Dialoghi con Leucò di Pavese', Testo, 52 (2006),
Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)
'From Plurality to (Near) Unicity of Forms: Embryology in Purgatorio 25', in: Dante for the New Millennium, eds.Teodolinda Barolini and Wayne Storey (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003)
With Christoph Holzhey, 'Dolore come gioia. Trasformarsi nel Purgatorio di Dante', Psiche, 4 (2003),
'From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin da la Riva’s Book of the Three Scriptures', in: Last Things: Death and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, eds. Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999)
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