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Dr Ruth Glynn
R.S.Glynn@bristol.ac.uk Tel: 0117 9546869
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Ruth Glynn studied Italian at the National University of Ireland, Galway (BA 1992), University College Dublin (MA 1994), and the University of Birmingham (PhD 1999). She lectured at the University of Leeds (1999-2000) before being appointed to the Italian Department in Bristol in 2000. Research InterestsHer research interests lie in late twentieth-century Italian culture and include representations of the anni di piombo; postmodernism; the historical novel and philosophy of history. Her current research project examines how Italy's experience of political violence and terrorism in the anni di piombo is articulated as trauma in memoir, fiction and film. |
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Selected Publications
Books
2005 Contesting the Monument: The Anti-Illusionist Italian Historical Novel, Leeds: Northern Universities Press.
Articles/Chapters
2009 'The Double Wound: Towards a Gendering of Trauma and Terrorism', in Freud and Italian Culture, ed. P. Barrotta, L. Lepschy and E. Bond, Oxford: Peter Lang: 107-126.
2009 'Writing the Terrorist Self: The Unspeakable Alterity of Italy's Female Perpetrators', Feminist Review, 92:1, (pp. 1-18), 2009.
2009 'Through the Lens of Trauma: The Figure of the Female Terrorist in Il prigioniero and Buongiorno, notte', in Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy 1969-2009, ed. Pierpaolo Antonello and Alan O'Leary, Legenda: 63-76.
2006. 'Trauma on the Line: Terrorism and Testimony in the anni di piombo', in M. Jansen and P. Jordão (eds), The Value of Literature in and after the Seventies: The Case of Italy and Portugal, University of Utrecht Igitur Publishing and Archiving, 2006: 317-335
2006 'Self and the City: A Psychoanalytical Reading of Luigi Malerba's Il serpente', Italica (83: 3-4): 609-628
2005 'The Prism of the Risorgimento in Vincenzo Consolo's Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio', in Risorgimento in Modern Italian Culture, ed. N. Bouchard, Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: 96-113
2002 'Fiction as Imprisonment in Luigi Malerba's Il fuoco greco' MLR, 97(1): 72-82.
2002 'La Verwindung di un genere letterario: Vattimo e il romanzo storico nell'etā postmoderna', in Da Calvino agli ipertesti: prospettive della postmodernitā nella letteratura italiana, ed. S. Storchi and L. Rorato, Florence: Franco Cesati editore: 141-155.
1999 'From Metaphor to Philosophy of History: Motifs of Representation in Consolo's Il sorriso dell'ignoto marinaio', Italian Studies: 118-131.
1997 'Presenting the Past: The Case of Il nome della rosa', The Italianist: 99-116.