Professor Derek Duncan

D.E.Duncan@bristol.ac.uk
Tel 0117 9287587

Derek Duncan studied Italian and French at Aberdeen University and completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh (1989) on first person narration in the twentieth century Italian novel. He has been Lecturer in Italian at Bristol since 1989 and Senior Lecturer since 2000.  Derek was appointed Professor of Italian Cultural Studies in 2007.

Research interests

Derek Duncan has published extensively on gender and sexuality in Italian literature and film. His book on male homosexuality and its intersections with race and national identity led to the development of an interest in Italian colonial culture. He is currently working on a monograph on postcolonial Italy that explores a wide range of cultural forms including feature and documentary film, journalism, novels, and postcolonial stardom. He is also involved in a number of collaborative projects with colleagues in the UK, USA, and Italy and is Senior Editor of the Cultural Studies issue of the long-established journal Italian Studies.

With Professor Sarah Street, he is leader of Screen@Bristol, a University research theme that promotes work on all forms of screen media across the institution.

In 2011 he will give talks at the Universities of Leeds and St Andrews. He will deliver a plenary paper at an international conference, Pasolini’s Body, at the Center of Visual and Performance Studies at UC Santa Cruz in April and will also lecture on Pasolini at UC Long Beach. He has been invited to Monash University in Melbourne as Visiting Professor in the summer of 2011.

Selected Publications

Books

2010 with Jacqueline Andall, National Belongings: Hybridity in Italian Colonial and Postcolonial Cultures, Oxford, Peter Lang

2005 Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality: a case of possible difference, Aldershot & Burlington, Ashgate.

2005 The Legacy and Memory of Italian Colonialism, eds. J. Andall and D. Duncan, Oxford, Peter Lang.

2002 Cultural Encounters: European Travel Writing in the 1930s, eds. C. Burdett and D. Duncan, Oxford, Berghahn.

Edited Journals

2008 ‘Queer Migration’, New Cinemas 6 (3), eds D. Duncan and D. Papanikolaou.

2006 ‘Scontro/Incontro: The Hybrid History of Italian Colonialism’, Italian Studies 61 (2), eds J. Andall and D. Duncan.

2003 'Approaches to Colonialism', Special Issue, Modern Italy 8 (1), eds. J. Andall, C. Burdett, D. Duncan.

2003 'Italian Colonialism: Historical Perspectives', Journal of Modern Italian Studies 8 (3), eds. J. Andall, C. Burdett, D. Duncan.