Directory of Research and Expertise

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Research Summary and Profile

Research interests:

Culture, Gender studies, Language and Literature (Italian), Literatures in a modern language

Regions:

Australasia, Europe, United Kingdom

Publication Details

Related publications/articles:

Date	Details
12-Apr-2023	Maria Morelli, Queer(ing) Gender in Italian Women’s Writing: Maraini, Sapienza, Morante, Oxford and New York: Peter Lang, 2021, pp. x + 306. Review Adalgisa Giorgio. Moderrn Italy, 2023, pp. 1-3.
11-Jul-2022	Paola Nitido, Le vite degli altri abitano la mia. La scrittura del sé nell’opera di Fabrizia Ramondino. Testimonianze di G. Cacciapuoti, A. Cirillo, G. Fofi, M. Liguori, T. Marrone. M. Martone, G. M. Scamardella, E. Tatafiore, P. Valerio, Naples: Fridericiana Editrice Universitaria, 2021, pp. 96+viii. Review Adalgisa Giorgio.Italian Studies, 77(3), 2022, pp. 356-357.
01-Nov-2021	Luciano Parisi, Giovani e abuso sessuale–2018), pp. VII+351. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2021. Review Adalgisa Giorgio. Italian Culture, 39(2), 2021, pp. 242-245.
13-Sep-2021	Alessia Ricciardi, Finding Ferrante. Authorship and the Politics of World Literature, New York: Columbia University Press, 2021, 2021, pp. 240+xii. Review Adalgisa Giorgio. Italian Studies, 76(4), 2021, pp. 502-504.
07-May-2021	‘Reading Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels with the Grain. The View of a Female Academic from Southern Italy’ Chapters Adalgisa Giorgio. In Women in Transition Crossing Boundaries, Crossing Borders, edited by Maria-José Blanco and Claire Williams. New York and Abingdon: Routledge, 7 May 2021, pp. 185-203.
31-Dec-2020	‘Hybrid Identities: Maoi Italians Challenging Racism and the Maori/Pakeha Binary’ Articles Adalgisa Giorgio and Carla Houkamau. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture. Vol. 27, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 20-43.
14-Nov-2019	Tiziana de Rogatis, Elena Ferrante. Parole chiave. Rome: Edizioni e/o, 2018, pp. 295. Review Adalgisa Giorgio. Italian Culture, 37(2), 2019, pp. 177-179.
13-Jul-2019	‘Flexible identities: Narratives of Maori Italians in New Zealand’ Articles Adalgisa Giorgio and Carla A. Houkamau. New Zealand Journal of Psychology, 48(2), 2019, pp. 27-40.
05-May-2018	‘Napoli tra essenza e processo: il caso di Antonella Cilento’ Chapters Adalgisa Giorgio. In Prospettive culturali fra intersezioni, sviluppi e svolte disciplinari in Italia e in Ungheria, edited by Ilona Fried. Budapest, Hungary: Eotvos Lorand Todomanyegyetem, 2018, pp. 165-183.
17-Jun-2017	Motherhood in Literature and Culture. Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe Edited Book Ed. Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee. New York and London: Routledge
17-Jun-2017	‘Introduction: Motherhood in Literature and Culture' Chapters Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee Six, In Motherhood in Literature and Culture. Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe, edited by Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee Six. New York and London: Routledge, June 2017, pp. 1-13.
17-Jun-2017	‘Matrixial Creativity and the Wit(h)nessing of Trauma: Reconnecting Mothers and Daughters in Marosia Castaldi’s Novel Dentro le mie mani le tue: Tetralogia di Nightwater’ Chapters Adalgisa Giorgio. In Motherhood in Literature and Culture. Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe, edited by Gill Rye, Victoria Browne, Adalgisa Giorgio, Emily Jeremiah, and Abigail Lee Six. New York and London: Routledge, June 2017, pp. 137-150.
01-Dec-2016	‘Minori a Napoli tra globale e locale: Voci e autorappresentazioni dopo Gomorra’ Articles Nuova Corvina, 29, December 2016, pp. 71-83 (invited republication).
01-Dec-2015	Motherhood and Work in Italy: A Socio-cultural Perspective Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2015), Motherhood and Work in Italy: A Socio-cultural Perspective. Special Issue on Mothering and Work in Italy in the Twentieth-First Century: Culture and Society, edited by Adalgisa Giorgio. Journal of Romance Studies, 15 (3), pp. 1-21. ISSN: 1473-3536
01-Dec-2015	Mothering and Work in Italy in the Twentieth-First Century: Culture and Society Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (ed.) (2015) Mothering and Work in Italy in the Twentieth-First Century: Culture and Society, Special Issue Journal of Romance Studies, 15 (3), December. ISSN: 1473-3536
01-Sep-2015	Mothering and Migration: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, European Perspectives and International Contexts. Introduction Journal articles Christou, Anastasia, Giorgio, A. and Rye, G. (2015) Mothering and Migration: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, European Perspectives and International Contexts. Introduction. Special Section on Mothering and Migration. Interdisciplinary Dialogues, European Perspectives and International Context. Women's Studies International Forum, 52, September–October, pp. 49-52.
01-Sep-2015	The Italian Family, Motherhood and Italianness in New Zealand. The Case of the Italian Community of Wellington Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2015) The Italian Family, Motherhood and Italianness in New Zealand. The Case of the Italian Community of Wellington. Special Section on Mothering and Migration. Interdisciplinary Dialogues, European Perspectives and International Contexts, edited by Anastasia Christou, Adalgisa Giorgio, and Gill Rye. Women's Studies International Forum, 52, September–October, pp. 53-62.
01-Jun-2015	Some reflections on the relevance of mammismo in the Italian diaspora in Wellington Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2015) Some reflections on the relevance of mammismo in the Italian diaspora in Wellington, in Penelope Morris and Perry Willson (eds.), Forum: Mothers and mammismo in the Italian diaspora. Altreitalie, 50, January-June, pp. 152-155.
01-Dec-2014	Napoli e le scrittrici “napoletane” in Inghilterra. Alcune riflessioni teorico-metodologiche, a partire da Fabrizia Ramondino Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2014) Napoli e le scrittrici “napoletane” in Inghilterra. Alcune riflessioni teorico-metodologiche, a partire da Fabrizia Ramondino. In Letteratura meridionale. Contesti nazionali e sovranazionali, edited by Rita Nicolì. Roma: Adi Editore, pp. 34-44. ISBN: 9788890790539
01-Oct-2013	Dalla Serata a Colono a Terremoto con madre e figlia: Elsa Morante e Fabrizia Ramondino Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2013) Dalla Serata a Colono a Terremoto con madre e figlia: Elsa Morante e Fabrizia Ramondino. In 'Non sto quindi a Napoli sicura di casa’. Identità, spazio e testualità in Fabrizia Ramondino (1936 2008), edited by Adalgisa Giorgio. Perugia: Morlacchi University Press, pp. 214-249.
01-Oct-2013	‘Non sto quindi a Napoli sicura di casa’. Identità, spazio e testualità in Fabrizia Ramondino Edited Book Giorgio, Adalgisa (ed.) (2013) ‘Non sto quindi a Napoli sicura di casa’. Identità, spazio e testualità in Fabrizia Ramondino. Perugia: Morlacchi University Press. 393 pages.
01-Dec-2012	Un esempio di postmoderno napoletano: Santa Mira di Gabriele Frasca Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2012) Un esempio di postmoderno napoletano: Santa Mira di Gabriele Frasca. In “Sul fil di ragno della memoria”. Studi in onore di Ilona Fried, edited by Franciska d’Elhoungne Hervai and Dávid Falvay. Budapest: Ponte Alapítvány, Budapest ELTE BTK Olasz Nyelv és Irodalom Tanszék, pp. 199-212.
01-Dec-2012	Minori a Napoli tra globale e locale: Voci e autorappresentazioni dopo Gomorra Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2012) Minori a Napoli tra globale e locale: Voci e autorappresentazioni dopo Gomorra. In Identità italiana e civiltà globale all’inizio del ventunesimo secolo. Meticciati, relazioni, attraversamenti – rapporto con la modernità, edited by Ilona Fried. Budapest: Ponte Alapítvány, Budapest ELTE BTK Olasz Nyelv és Irodalom Tanszék, pp. 333-350.
01-Nov-2012	Review of Cinzia Sartini Blum, Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature: Figures of Subjectivity in Progress Review Giorgio, Adalgisa (2012) Review: Cinzia Sartini Blum, Rewriting the Journey in Contemporary Italian Literature: Figures of Subjectivity in Progress. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2008, pp. 381+viii. Italian Studies, 67 (3), pp. 445-447.
01-Dec-2011	Precarietà allora/ora. Una testimonianza femminile dal mediterraneo Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2011) Precarietà allora/ora. Una testimonianza femminile dal mediterraneo. La Libellula, Primo Quaderno: Precarietà e Postautonomia, edited by Monica Jansen and Federica Colleoni, December, pp. 4-11.
01-Nov-2011	Eleonora De Fonseca Pimentel e la rivoluzione napoletana: Una donna eccezionale tra storia, memoria e invenzione Articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2011) Eleonora De Fonseca Pimentel e la rivoluzione napoletana: Una donna eccezionale tra storia, memoria e invenzione. Italian Studies: Cultural Studies Issue, 66 (3), November, pp. 301-317.
22-Apr-2011	Natalia Ginzburg’s “La madre”: Exposing Patriarchy’s Erasure of the Mother Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2011) Natalia Ginzburg’s “La madre”: Exposing Patriarchy’s Erasure of the Mother. In Short Story Criticism (Vol. 150), edited by Jelena Krstovic. Thomson Gale Publisher/Cengage Learning, 22 April. (An invited republication of a 1993 MLR article).
01-Mar-2011	Review of Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna eds., The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli. London: Legenda/MHRA and Maney Publishing, 2009, pp. 189+xii Review Giorgio, Adalgisa (2011) Review of Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna (eds.) The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante’s Aracoeli. London: Legenda/MHRA and Maney Publishing, 2009, pp. 189+xii. Italian Studies, 66 (1), pp. 144-146.
01-Jul-2010	Didattica della sessualità e del genere tra Svizzera, Gran Bretagna e Italia Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa, Chemello A., Crivelli T. and Wood S., Didattica della sessualità e del genere tra Svizzera, Gran Bretagna e Italia. Italian Studies, 65 (2), pp. 251-262.
01-Jun-2010	Writing Versions of Home: Marosia Castaldi’s Per quante vite and the Poetics of the Visible Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2010) Writing Versions of Home: Marosia Castaldi’s Per quante vite and the Poetics of the Visible. Journal of Romance Studies, 10 (2), Summer, pp. 77–96. Print ISSN: 1473-3536. Online ISSN: 1752-2331
01-May-2010	Mutazioni del lavoro, comunità e pensiero meridiano: Antonio Pascale e Fabrizia Ramondino Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2010) Mutazioni del lavoro, comunità e pensiero meridiano: Antonio Pascale e Fabrizia Ramondino. Narrativa. Letteratura e azienda (University of Paris 10, Nanterre), 31-32, pp. 175-187. ISBN: 978-2-84016-062-5
01-Mar-2010	Archetipi napoletani in veste postmoderna. Venti anni di narrativa su Napoli Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2010) Archetipi napoletani in veste postmoderna. Venti anni di narrativa su Napoli. In Tradizione e modernità nella cultura italiana contemporanea. Italia e Europa, edited by Ilona Fried. Budapest: ELTE, pp. 295-312.
13-Aug-2009	Review of Anna Bravo, A colpi di cuore. Storie del sessantotto, Roma-Bari, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2008 Review Giorgio, Adalgisa (2009) Review of Anna Bravo, A colpi di cuore. Storie del sessantotto, Roma-Bari, Gius. Laterza & Figli, 2008. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 14 (3), pp. 374-376. ISSN 1354-571X. DOI: 10.1080/13545710903033545
01-Jul-2009	Review of Laura Benedetti. The Tigress in the Snow. Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy. Toronto:University of Toronto Press, 2007 Review Giorgio, Adalgisa (2009) Review of Laura Benedetti. The Tigress in the Snow. Motherhood and Literature in Twentieth-Century Italy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007. Modern Language Review, 104 (3), pp. 889-892.
01-Nov-2008	Tra Pirandello e Judith Butler: Forma e performatività nella narrativa di Marosia Castaldi Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2008) Tra Pirandello e Judith Butler: Forma e performatività nella narrativa di Marosia Castaldi. Narrativa: Femminile/Maschile nella letteratura italiana degli anni 2000, 30, pp. 97-109. ISBN: 978-2-84016-038-0
01-Dec-2007	Coscienza etico-politica e realtà napoletana nella scrittura di Ermanno Rea Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2007) Coscienza etico-politica e realtà napoletana nella scrittura di Ermanno Rea. Narrativa. Letteratura e politica nell’Italia degli anni 2000 (University of Paris 10 Nanterre), 29, pp. 227-239. ISBN: 978-2-84016-019-9
01-Nov-2007	The Legacy of Elsa Morante: The “Case” of Mariateresa Di Lascia Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2007) The Legacy of Elsa Morante: The “Case” of Mariateresa Di Lascia. In Women’s Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy, edited by Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 149-167.
01-Nov-2007	Introduction: Gender, Generation, Legacy Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa and Waters J. (2007) Introduction: Gender, Generation, Legacy. In Women’s Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy, edited by Adalgisa Giorgio and Julia Waters. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 1-19.
01-Nov-2007	Women’s Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy Edited Book Giorgio, Adalgisa and Waters, J. (eds) (2007) Women’s Writing in Western Europe: Gender, Generation and Legacy. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, i-xiii + 463 pages.
01-Jun-2007	«Allegorie» di Napoli. Marosia Castaldi e Giuseppe Montesano tra tradizione e innovazione Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2007) «Allegorie» di Napoli. Marosia Castaldi e Giuseppe Montesano tra tradizione e innovazione. Nuova Corvina (Budapest), 19, pp. 121-139.
01-Dec-2006	“Bad Girls” in the 1970s and 1990s: Female Desire and Experimentalism in Italian Women’s Writing Edited Book Giorgio, Adalgisa (2006) “Bad Girls” in the 1970s and 1990s: Female Desire and Experimentalism in Italian Women’s Writing. In The Value of Literature in and after the Seventies. The Case of Italy and Portugal, edited by Monica Jansen and Paula Jordão. Utrecht: Igitur, pp. 729-745.
01-Jan-2006	Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s Edited Book Giorgio, Adalgisa and Cento Bull, A. (eds) (2006) Speaking Out and Silencing: Culture, Society and Politics in Italy in the 1970s. Oxford: Legenda/MHRA/Italian Perspectives & Maney Publishing, January, i-xvi + 240 pages.
01-Jan-2005	From Naples to Europe to the Global Village. Identity, Time and Space in Fabrizia Ramondino’s L’isola riflessa (1998) Journal articles Giorgio, Adalgisa (2005) From Naples to Europe to the Global Village. Identity, Time and Space in Fabrizia Ramondino’s L’isola riflessa (1998). The Italianist, 25 (1), pp. 72-96. DOI: 10.1179/026143405X61044
01-Apr-2002	Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women Edited Book Giorgio, Adalgisa (ed.) (2002) Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women. Oxford: Berghahn,i-xiv + 258 pages. ISBN 978-1-57181-953-6 and ISBN 978-1-57181-341-1.
01-Apr-2002	The Passion for the Mother: Conflicts and Idealizations in Contemporary Italian Narrative by Women Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2002) The Passion for the Mother: Conflicts and Idealizations in Contemporary Italian Narrative by Women. In Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women, edited by Adalgisa Giorgio. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 119-154.
01-Apr-2002	Writing the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Literary Criticism Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2002) Writing the Mother-Daughter Relationship: Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Literary Criticism. In Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women, edited by Adalgisa Giorgio. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 11-45.
01-Apr-2002	Mothers and Daughters in Europe: Mapping the Territory Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2002) Mothers and Daughters in Europe: Mapping the Territory. In Writing Mothers and Daughters: Renegotiating the Mother in Western European Narratives by Women, edited by Adalgisa Giorgio. Oxford: Berghahn, pp. 1-9.
01-Dec-2000	The Novel: 1965-2000 Chapters Giorgio, Adalgisa (2000) The Novel: 1965-2000. In A History of Women’s Writing in Italy, edited by Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 218-237. ISBN-13: 978-0521570886

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