Grandi Roberta

https://www.hvl.no/en/research/group/nachilit/

https://blogg.hvl.no/nachilit/

PUBBLICAZIONI:

“Vita da Albero. Albi illustrati in inglese”, in M. Guerra – F. Bertolino, Biografie Naturali. Storie di noi, altri animali, vegetali, minerali … e dintorni. Edizioni Junior, 2025, pp. 72-88. ISBN: 9791256351145

“You Two Are the Bad Guys!” Intergenerational Equity, Ecophobia, and Ecocentric Card Games in Disney’s Strange World (2022). Humanities, 14(4):76, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14040076 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/14/4/76 [Fascia A]

“Paratextuality in Watership Down: Anthropocentric and Ecocentric Readings”, La Torre di Babele, n. 19, 2024, pp. 187-208. http://digital.casalini.it/5953726

“‘Anyway, What’s a Doe More or Less?’ Androcentrism In Watership Down (1972) and Tales from Watership Down (1996) by Richard Adams”, Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies (BELLS), vol XIII, 2021, pp. 187-205.

“‘Animals don’t behave like men… They have dignity and animality’. Richard Adams’s Watership Down and Interspecies Relationships in the Anthropocene, English Studies in Italy, 34(3), 2021, pp. 159-186. [Fascia A]

CONFERENZE:

• 16-17 ottobre 2021: International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies – London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research. Relatrice: “The Second Sex in Tales from Watership Down (1996) by Richard Adams. An Ecofeminist Appraisal” (Selezione) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13764.96640
• 4-6 maggio 2021: Changing The (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics. International Workshop, Ferrara. Relatrice: “Posthumanism and Techne in Richard Adam’s Watership Down” (Selezione) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12087.24480
• 29-31 agosto 2018: Brno – ESSE 14th International Conference. Relatrice : “‘And the fox and the rabbit were friends’ Interspecies conflict and collaboration in Richard Adams’s Watership Down”.
• 15 maggio 2018: Università della Valle d’Aosta – Conferenza “On Children and Nature: Words and Pictures”. Organizzazione della conferenza e intervento in qualità di relatrice : “The world seen through the eyes of a rabbit: Watership Down in a post-human perspective”.

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CONFERENZE:
10-12 gennaio 2022 2017 PRIN Workshop “Classical Receptions in Early Modern English Drama” – Università di Verona – Cambridge University Relatrice con Carlo M. Bajetta “‘What are you reading my Lord?’ Libraries and Uncertainty in Elizabethan England” (12/1) (invito)

https://www.aewmason.com/

PUBBLICAZIONI:

“A Woman’s Angle. An interview with Gwen Moffat, novelist and the first female Mountain Guide in Europe”, European Journal of Women’s Studies, 33(1), 2026, pp. 153-163, DOI 10.1177/13505068251414351

“Premessa”, con F. Locatelli, in L. Giacoma, R. Odicino, A.M. Pioletti eds., In viaggio. Esperienze e racconti da e per l’Europa , Franco Angeli, Milano, 2023, pp. 7-9

“Climbing to the Heart of Stone. Reading Moffat through Plumwood.” Sinestesieonline, a. XII, n. 39, 2023, pp. 1-12

A.E.W. Mason’s Running Water and The Guide. With Introduction and Notes, London Academic Publishing, London, ISBN: 978-1-9996138-9-1, 2021, pp. 350

“Mason and pre-wartime films: patriotism and heroism in The Four Feathers (1902) and Fire Over England (1936)”, in Roberta Ferrari and Sara Soncini eds, World of Words: Complexity, Creativity and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture, vol II, Pisa UP, Pisa, ISBN 978-88-3339-248-6, 2019, pp. 91-100.

CONFERENZE:

• 13 dicembre 2021: Bilingual Conference, “The elect for whom the snow-peaks have a message.” Femmes et écrivains au milieu des Alpes – International Mountain Day – Univda. Organizzazione della conferenza e intervento in qualità di relatrice: “A Teenage Girl on the Alps: A.E.W. Mason’s Running Water as a Bildungsroman.”
• 12 dicembre 2019: Università della Valle d’Aosta – Mountain week. Relatrice: “The message of the mountains”: A.E.W. Mason and Mont Blanc in English literature (1817-1907)”.
• 8-9 giugno 2018: 2nd TEM International Conference – Bard. Relatrice : “The monarch of mountains”: Mont Blanc in a century of English literature (1817-1907).
• 14-16 settembre 2017: Pisa – AIA 2017 – Conferenza nazionale. Relatrice: “Mason and pre-wartime films: patriotism and heroism in The Four Feathers and Fire Over England”.

https://blogg.hvl.no/nachilit/

https://www.hvl.no/en/research/group/nachilit/

PUBBLICAZIONI:

“You Two Are the Bad Guys!” Intergenerational Equity, Ecophobia, and Ecocentric Card Games in Disney’s Strange World (2022). Humanities, 14(4):76, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/h14040076 https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/14/4/76 [Fascia A]

“Paratextuality in Watership Down: Anthropocentric and Ecocentric Readings”, La Torre di Babele, n. 19, 2024, pp. 187-208. http://digital.casalini.it/5953726

“Climbing to the Heart of Stone. Reading Moffat through Plumwood.” Sinestesieonline, a. XII, n. 39, 2023, pp. 1-12

“‘Anyway, What’s a Doe More or Less?’ Androcentrism In Watership Down (1972) and Tales from Watership Down (1996) by Richard Adams”, Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies (BELLS), vol XIII, 2021, pp. 187-205.

“‘Animals don’t behave like men… They have dignity and animality’. Richard Adams’s Watership Down and Interspecies Relationships in the Anthropocene, English Studies in Italy, 34(3), 2021, pp. 159-186. [Fascia A]

CONFERENZE:

• 16/19 Maggio 2024 ASLE 2024 Symposium “Green Fire: Energy Stories Beyond Extraction”, University of North Florida, USA, Relatrice: “Parasite Energy Sources: Disney’s Strange World (2022) and Gaia’s Delicate Balance” (selezione)
• 28/29 Settembre 2023 The Picturebook Between Fiction and Reality – The 9th International Conference of The European Network of Picturebook Research, Osijek, Croatia Relatrice con Fabrizio Bertolino: “Fly Like a Tree: Factual Elements – or a Lack Thereof – in Arboreal Representations in Two Fictional Picturebooks” (selezione)
• 8-9 Giugno 2023 Identifying the Addressee of Contemporary Literature for Children and Young Adults: border crossings towards a mixed readership – Baia Mare – Romania.
  Relatrice: “Abridged (1976) and Unabridged (2019) Audiobooks of Watership Down: Changing Times, Changing Audiences?”, 8-6-23, (selezione)
• 16-17 ottobre 2021: International Conference on Ecocriticism and Environmental Studies – London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research. Relatrice: “The Second Sex in Tales from Watership Down (1996) by Richard Adams. An Ecofeminist Appraisal” (Selezione) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.13764.96640
• 4-6 maggio 2021: Changing The (Cultural) Climate with Ecocriticism and Ecolinguistics. International Workshop, Ferrara. Relatrice: “Posthumanism and Techne in Richard Adam’s Watership Down” (Selezione) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.12087.24480
• 29-31 agosto 2018: Brno – ESSE 14th International Conference. Relatrice : “‘And the fox and the rabbit were friends’ Interspecies conflict and collaboration in Richard Adams’s Watership Down”.
• 15 maggio 2018: Università della Valle d’Aosta – Conferenza “On Children and Nature: Words and Pictures”. Organizzazione della conferenza e intervento in qualità di relatrice : “The world seen through the eyes of a rabbit: Watership Down in a post-human perspective”.

https://www.aewmason.com/

PUBBLICAZIONI:

“Premessa”, con F. Locatelli, in L. Giacoma, R. Odicino, A.M. Pioletti eds., In viaggio. Esperienze e racconti da e per l’Europa, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2023, pp. 7-9

“Climbing to the Heart of Stone. Reading Moffat through Plumwood.” Sinestesieonline, a. XII, n. 39, 2023, pp. 1-12

A.E.W. Mason’s Running Water and The Guide. With Introduction and Notes, London Academic Publishing, London, ISBN: 978-1-9996138-9-1, 2021, pp. 350

“Mason and pre-wartime films: patriotism and heroism in The Four Feathers (1902) and Fire Over England (1936)”, in Roberta Ferrari and Sara Soncini eds, World of Words: Complexity, Creativity and Conventionality in English Language, Literature and Culture, vol II, Pisa UP, Pisa, ISBN 978-88-3339-248-6, 2019, pp. 91-100.

CONFERENZE:

• 26-30 Agosto 2024 ESSE 2024 Lausanne, Switzerland, Relatrice: “The Many Faces of Mountaineering: Gwen Moffat and the Mountain” (selezione)
• 12-13 Dicembre 2022 Convegno Internazionale “In viaggio: esperienze e racconti dall’Europa alla Valle d’Aosta” – Univda Organizzazione e comitato scientifico.
  Relatrice: “Gwen Moffat: the Space below Her Feet” (12-12) DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.33245.08164
• 13 dicembre 2021: Bilingual Conference, “The elect for whom the snow-peaks have a message.” Femmes et écrivains au milieu des Alpes – International Mountain Day – Univda. Organizzazione della conferenza e intervento in qualità di relatrice: “A Teenage Girl on the Alps: A.E.W. Mason’s Running Water as a Bildungsroman.”
• 12 dicembre 2019: Università della Valle d’Aosta – Mountain week. Relatrice: “The message of the mountains”: A.E.W. Mason and Mont Blanc in English literature (1817-1907)”.
• 8-9 giugno 2018: 2nd TEM International Conference – Bard. Relatrice : “The monarch of mountains”: Mont Blanc in a century of English literature (1817-1907).
• 14-16 settembre 2017: Pisa – AIA 2017 – Conferenza nazionale. Relatrice: “Mason and pre-wartime films: patriotism and heroism in The Four Feathers and Fire Over England”.

MONOGRAFIA:

King Lear dopo Shakespeare. Adattamenti, riscritture, burlesques (1681-1860), Roma: Aracne, Collana Scritture d’Oltremanica, ISBN: 978-88-5485-934-0, 2013, pp. 304.

ARTICOLI E SAGGI:

1. “‘This great stage of fools’ (IV.v)– Anachronisms and Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear”, in Marina Gerzic and Aidan Norrie eds., Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations, Routledge, ISBN 9780367256463, 2020, pp. 21-38.
2. “Bacco, tabacco e lecca-lecca. Cibo e altri generi di conforto in alcuni burlesques shakespeariani” in P. Caponi, C. Cavecchi, M. Rose eds., Il Bardo tra gourmet e cannibali, Milano: Ledizioni, ISBN 978-88-6705-438-1, 2016, pp. 81-94.
3. “The Correct Identity of J. Halford, Dramatist and Actor”, Notes and Queries, ISSN: 0029-3970, n. 61, 2014, pp. 555-558.
4. “The Merchant of Venice in Inghilterra tra ‘700 e ‘800: una breve storia scenica”, Tess, Rivista di teatro e spettacolo, n. 9, 2009, ISBN: 978-88-6001-244-9, pp. 87-101.
5. “His-Tory and Their-Story: Antony and Cleopatra in tre burlesques ottocenteschi”, Tess, Rivista di teatro e spettacolo, n. 7, ISBN: 978-88-6001-146-6, 2007, pp. 87-108.
6. “‘The play’s the thing’ (II.ii.600): il teatro, l’Amleto e i burlesques”, L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, ISSN: 1122-1917, n. 2, 2006, pp. 271-293.
7. “‘Is this the promised end?’ (V.3.262): il King Lear dopo Shakespeare”, Tess, Rivista di teatro e spettacolo, n. 6, ISBN: 88-6001-108-88, 2006, pp. 69-88.

CONFERENZE (Ultimi 10 anni):

• 28 Marzo 2022: Ciclo seminariale “Cibo, letteratura, vita”, Università di Bologna, Centro Studi Camporesi del FICLIT, Università di Padova, Giornata “Il cibo all’opera: il ruolo del cibo nel mondo dello spettacolo”. “‘Something Rotten.’ Vizi, stravizi, e anacronismi alimentari nei burlesques di Amleto.” (invito)
• 15-17 Settembre 2022, XXX AIA Conference: “Experiment And Innovation: Branching Forwards And Backwards”, University Of Catania.  Convenor per il Seminario “ In Shakespeare’s words: domesticating the Bard through the centuries”. Relatrice “ W.H. Ireland’s “Ur-Lear”. Forging the original Shakespeare for the Georgian Era”
• 26 novembre 2015: Università degli Studi di Milano – Seminario. Relatrice: “Enter the Bard. The Eighteenth Century and the “Creation” of Shakespeare”. (invito)
• 21 dicembre 2014: Milano – First International Symposium on Victorian Baroque. Relatrice: “Victorian Burlesque: The Funhouse Mirror of the Nineteenth Century” (invito).
• 29 agosto/2 settembre 2014: Kosice – ESSE 12 International Conference. Relatrice: “From Manuscript to Manuscript – Two King Lear Burlesques”.

MONOGRAFIA:

Il Corpo di Jane Austen. Incarnazioni letterarie e filmiche tra desiderio e repressione, Firenze: EditPress, ISBN: 978-88-9782-667-5, 2017, pp. 252.

ARTICOLI E SAGGI:

1. “Silenzio e Sentimento. Parole, immagini e censura nel romanzo di Jane Austen e in tre adattamenti” in F. Marroni e F. D’Alfonso, eds., Jane Austen. Silenzi, lacune, allusioni, Carabba, Lanciano, ISBN 978-88-6344-547-3, 2018, pp. 135-156.
2. “World Austen: empowerment and tradition on the screen”, Textus, ISSN: 1824-3967, vol. 3 n. 3, 2017, pp. 129-145.
3. “Screening Jane. When History, Biography and Fiction create a Cinematic Life”, Lingue e Linguaggi, ISSN: 2239-0367, vol. 13, 2015, pp. 301-309.
4. “What was done there is not to be told!” Plans for improvement and designs for ruin in Austen’s Sotherton Court”, L’Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria, ISSN: 1122-1917, 1, 2011, pp. 103-120.
5. “Web Side Stories: Janeites, Fanfictions and Never Ending Romances” in I. Hotz-Davies, A. Kirchhofer and S. Leppänen, eds., Internet Fictions: Between Virtual Self-Fashioning and Consumer Tailoring, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN: 1-4438-0108-9, 2009, pp. 23-41.
6. “The passion translated: literary and cinematic rhetoric in Pride and Prejudice”, Literature / Film Quarterly, ISSN: 0090-4260, vol. 36/1, 2008, pp. 45-51.

CONFERENZE (ultimi 10 anni)

• 1 marzo 2019: UCSC Milano – Workshop: “Officine della Narrazione”. Relatrice: “J. Austen – Pride and Prejudice (1813)” (invito) https://cattolicanews.it/riscoprendo-pride-and-prejudice.
• 4 maggio 2018: Università degli Studi di Parma – Seminario. Relatrice: Adapting Jane Austen for the screen. Pride and Prejudice in Words and Pictures. (invito)
• 4 maggio 2017: UCSC Milano – Seminario. Relatrice: “Dalla carta alla pellicola: la traduzione intersemiotica di Pride and Prejudice” (invito)
• 12 aprile 2016: UCSC Milano – Seminario Relatrice: “The Passion translated. Adattamenti cinematografici di Pride and Prejudice”. (invito)
• 14 aprile 2015: UCSC Milano – Seminario Relatrice: “Love in Translation: Pride and Prejudice. The novel and the film adaptations in comparison” (invito)