Ilaria Natali
@ilarianatali.bsky.social
Professor, English Lit. 18th-20th centuries- Modern manuscripts | Collaborative writing | Literature & medicine | Gender | Intertextuality - Director of LEA - President of the Programme in Foreign Languages and Literatures
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November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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I taught many things today — the structural roots of novel forms, the long history of didactic literature, how to read a D4 –– but probably my longest term impact is when I said to a love-lorn student, “the only thing I can tell you over four decades of life is that nothing is forever”
November 11, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I taught many things today — the structural roots of novel forms, the long history of didactic literature, how to read a D4 –– but probably my longest term impact is when I said to a love-lorn student, “the only thing I can tell you over four decades of life is that nothing is forever”
Ilze Kačāne takes us into the fascinating world of translating Oscar Wilde’s decadent flair into Latvian. How does language shape—or reshuffle—the lushness of Wilde’s voice? oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...
November 11, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Ilze Kačāne takes us into the fascinating world of translating Oscar Wilde’s decadent flair into Latvian. How does language shape—or reshuffle—the lushness of Wilde’s voice? oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...
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Legendary musician & activist Peter Gabriel celebrates the Internet Archive hitting 1 trillion pages & reflects on its role in preserving humanity’s memory.
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#Wayback1T @itspetergabriel.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Legendary musician & activist Peter Gabriel celebrates the Internet Archive hitting 1 trillion pages & reflects on its role in preserving humanity’s memory.
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#Wayback1T @itspetergabriel.bsky.social
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Honestly thought I was just doing some due diligence at the American Antiquarian Society, but found truly amazing unique and under-cataloged Haiti items, plus some surprising interactions between print and manuscript
November 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Honestly thought I was just doing some due diligence at the American Antiquarian Society, but found truly amazing unique and under-cataloged Haiti items, plus some surprising interactions between print and manuscript
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It was a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool at the conference, ‘Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne’. Well done to the organizers and contributors! I gave a keynote on transatlantic material Marias, with unintended shopping consequences 👇🏻
what would a Sterne conference be without subplots and serendipity? After hearing @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social fascinating keynote about the author and transatlantic material culture, I stumbled across this 1779 Angelica Kauffman print of Maria… thank/blame the fates
November 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It was a fantastic 3 days in Liverpool at the conference, ‘Terraqueous Globe: Land & Sea in the Age of Sterne’. Well done to the organizers and contributors! I gave a keynote on transatlantic material Marias, with unintended shopping consequences 👇🏻
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..you're either writing or you're thinking about writing..all the time.
~ #itswhatwedo
~ #itswhatwedo
November 9, 2025 at 8:40 AM
..you're either writing or you're thinking about writing..all the time.
~ #itswhatwedo
~ #itswhatwedo
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'Imperial Intimacies: a tale of two islands' by Hazel Carby (published 2019): best in any or many genres I've read this year, rigorous creative history & powerful personal & family memory mutually inform each other, heartbreaking, passionate, legitimately angry www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Imperial Intimacies
‘Where are you from?’ was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post–World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mot...
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November 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
'Imperial Intimacies: a tale of two islands' by Hazel Carby (published 2019): best in any or many genres I've read this year, rigorous creative history & powerful personal & family memory mutually inform each other, heartbreaking, passionate, legitimately angry www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Academic authors: self-promote! 💫
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Academic authors: self-promote! 💫
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
This is not a particularly popular account but:
🚨 If you have published a book in the last 5 years (since the hype wears off after a while), especially in the humanities, feel free to reply here and repost! 👇
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If it annoys them to see people reading a book in public we're doing something right.
New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
November 10, 2025 at 4:12 PM
If it annoys them to see people reading a book in public we're doing something right.
New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
New mission: walking around with a book in your hand at all times. Waving it dramatically, fanning yourself with it, using it to block the sun, holding a coffee cup on top, dropping it loudly on a table...
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I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5
bie bao zaum series volume 5 — Rab-Rab Press
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December 31, 2024 at 5:44 PM
I'm happy this little volume came out this year. (Still working to find a publisher for all of _PhiloSophia_.) But I'm also glad I got to meet Sezgin Boynik in October, and I hope you'll consider purchasing any of the editions published by Rab-Rab Press.
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5
www.rabrab.net/titles/biebao5
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November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Our warm thanks to @SHARPOrg for supporting LEA through a Lightning Grant!
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BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
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📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026
(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026
(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
November 9, 2025 at 6:29 PM
📢The 9th edition of the Summer School “Digital Tools for Humanists” will be held in Pisa from May 25 to May 30 2026, both in presence and online: digitaltools.labcd.unipi.it
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026
(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
Registration fee: 500 Euros.
DEADLINE: 15/04/2026
(Photo by Andrae Ricketts on Unsplash)
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29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”
Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.
29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”
Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.
Hello Beckettians and Modernists! You can now access registration link, full programme of the seminar, and abstracts and bio on the website of The Samuel Beckett Society: samuelbeckettsociety.org
The Samuel Beckett Society
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November 9, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”
Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.
29th November 2025 is scheduled for the online Samuel Beckett seminar, “Decoding Colding in Beckett.”
Please share the details (below)with your colleagues, students, and friends.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Luca Bruno examines role language and intimate scripts in Kioku no Dizorubu. How does language itself serve—or subvert—human relations?
View of To (Sub)Serve Man. Role Language and Intimate Scripts in Kioku no Dizorubu | LEA - Lingue e Letterature d'Oriente e d'Occidente
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November 9, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Luca Bruno examines role language and intimate scripts in Kioku no Dizorubu. How does language itself serve—or subvert—human relations?
Tina Maraucci traces ‘fragile masculinity’ in Yusuf Atılgan’s protagonists. What happens when strength cracks—does vulnerability speak louder? (language: Italian)
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November 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Tina Maraucci traces ‘fragile masculinity’ in Yusuf Atılgan’s protagonists. What happens when strength cracks—does vulnerability speak louder? (language: Italian)
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In Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort (2020) I argue that villains' stories are cautionary tales against the excessive empowerment of patriarchal men. Heroes eliminate them to keep the status quo intact.
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
In Masculinity and Patriarchal Villainy in the British Novel: From Hitler to Voldemort (2020) I argue that villains' stories are cautionary tales against the excessive empowerment of patriarchal men. Heroes eliminate them to keep the status quo intact.
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
www.routledge.com/Masculinity-...
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My book Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity--which argues that, for many late 19c/early 20c American thinkers & writers, modernity was just as much about states of compulsive, irrational attention as it was about distraction--came out in 2022!
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Fascination
Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technologica...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My book Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity--which argues that, for many late 19c/early 20c American thinkers & writers, modernity was just as much about states of compulsive, irrational attention as it was about distraction--came out in 2022!
lsupress.org/978080717851...
lsupress.org/978080717851...
If weekends are for bricolage - why not with Joyce?
joycebricolage.blogspot.com
#JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Modernism
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#JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Modernism
Joyce Bricolage
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November 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If weekends are for bricolage - why not with Joyce?
joycebricolage.blogspot.com
#JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Modernism
joycebricolage.blogspot.com
#JamesJoyce #Ulysses #Modernism
Corinne François-Denève interrogates Strindberg’s ‘deranged sensations’—a vivid journey into disorientation and aesthetic decay. Ever felt the unsettling pull of decadence rendered in words? oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...
November 4, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Corinne François-Denève interrogates Strindberg’s ‘deranged sensations’—a vivid journey into disorientation and aesthetic decay. Ever felt the unsettling pull of decadence rendered in words? oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bs...
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This Wednesday (11/5) at 4 PM ET, please join us for a free webinar during which, Kathleen deLaski, Cheryl Fields-Smith, @drshaunharper.bsky.social, and Brent W. Maddin will discuss the future of education. Find out more and register here: https://bit.ly/4mUDEgZ
November 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This Wednesday (11/5) at 4 PM ET, please join us for a free webinar during which, Kathleen deLaski, Cheryl Fields-Smith, @drshaunharper.bsky.social, and Brent W. Maddin will discuss the future of education. Find out more and register here: https://bit.ly/4mUDEgZ