CURRICULUM VITAE MARIAGIULIA GARUFI Home Address: Via Trainotti 6 37121 Verona Italy Email: giuliagarufi@tin.it University: Università degli studi di Verona Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Lungadige Porta Vittoria, 41 37129 Verona Mariagiulia Garufi holds a Ph. D. in English Studies from the University of Verona. She specialises in Scottish and Postcolonial studies and is interested in the historical and the theoretical intersections between these fields. Her main research field is focused on modernism and postmodernism with a special focus upon nationalism and literature, identity theories and gender studies. Education -17/05/2012 Ph.D. in English Studies at the University of Verona, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures. Research project: Tales of Their Own Country : Re-visioning the Scottish Renaissance through the Contribution of Women Writers. Catherine Carswell, Willa Muir, and Nan Shepherd. Supervisor of the research project: professor Carla Sassi Coordinator of the doctoral programme: professor Daniela Carpi -Master of Arts, 24/11/2008. University of Verona, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures (110/110 cum laude). Dissertation on British Literature: Modernismo, modernità e identità nazionale in A Scots Quair e nell opera di James Leslie Mitchell/Lewis Grassic Gibbon. Supervisor: professor Carla Sassi. 1
-Bachelor of Arts, 28/11/2005. University of Verona, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures (110/110 cum laude). Dissertation on British literature: Intertestualità e rilettura della tradizione scozzese in The Ballad of Peckham Rye di Muriel Spark. Supervisor: professor Carla Sassi. Teaching Experience -Since 2009: Expert on the subject of British literature at the University of Verona, Faculty of Modern Language and Literature. Participations in the exams committee during the exams of British literature and Postcolonial studies. -A.A. 2009-10: Advisor for the students of the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures. -Various collaborations with Cestim-Centro Studi Immigrazione (Immigration Studies Centre) in Verona as a teacher of Italian as a foreign language in primary and secondary schools. -Various collaborations with the secondary school Marco Polo in Verona as a teacher of English for Italian students and as a supervisor of extra-curricular activities for student and of the summer programmes. -Consultant in 2007 for Learning and Teaching Scotland for the preparation and registration of Italian didactic materials for various levels. -Consultant in 2006 and in 2007 for the Scottish Qualification Authority in Edinburgh in the teams for the preparation and registration of the Italian exams (levels: Advenced Higher and Intermediate). -August 2006-June2007 Teaching Assistant of Italian language and literature for the Italian Ministry of Education and Research in Glasgow in two secondary schools of the Glasgow City Council (Notre Dame High and St. Roch s) and in St. Aloysious Senior College. -24-25/03/2010, University of Verona: lecture within the course of Postcolonial Studies: Travels to and from Terrae Incognitae : Memory and Diaspora in Joseph Kight by James Robertson. Other Work Experience -2004 to 2006 Administrative work at the Scholarship Office University of Verona 2
Conference Presentations/Talks -2012: The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Seminar 68: "'Turks of Tartary'? Images of Islam in Scottish Writing Bogazici University, Istanbul. 4-8 September. Title of the paper: Encounters over the Borders: Power Relationship between East and West in Greenmantle by John Buchan. -2012: Participation to the conference Crime Scotland Then and Now at the Georg- August-Universität in Göttingen: Inside the Frame. Resisting Genders in Detective Fiction: The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh. -2011: Participation to the conference Regional Literary Cultures: Modernism and After at the University of Nottingham: Locating Modernity: Lewis Grassic Gibbon s Scottish Scenes (recipient of scholarship of the Centre for Regional Cultures, University of Nottingham). -2010: The European Society for the Study of English (ESSE), Seminar 33: Scotland, Europe and Modernism. Università di Torino. 24-28 August. Title of the paper: Places on the Map : Rebecca West s Modernist Journeys between Scotland and Europe. Lectures -10/11/2011, University of Verona: lecture within the course of English Literature: Maria Edgeworth s Castle Rackrent: The Historical Novel Between Woman and Nation. -08/11/2011, University of Verona: lecture within the course of Postcolonial Studies: Alistair McLeod s No Great Mischief Cultural Identity Through Ancestral Memory. -25/11/2010, University of Verona: lecture within the doctoral course Evolution of the Genre of the Detective Fiction: the Doomed Detective and the Failure of Law : Ambiguity of Genre and Gender in The Cutting Room by Louise Welsh: Anything May Happen. -24-25/03/2010, University of Verona: lecture within the course of Postcolonial Studies: Travels to and from Terrae Incognitae : Memory and Diaspora in Joseph Kight by James Robertson. Publications Articles/chapters - Memory and Dis/placement in Rebecca West s The Judge and Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. In The Capricious Thread: Memory and the Modernist Text. Ed. Teresa Prudente, Alessandria: Edizioni dell Orso, 2011. 89-101. 3
- Places on the Map : Rebecca West s Modernist Journeys between Scotland and Europe. Scottish Literary Review, 3.1 (2011): 91-104. -Review of the novel And the Land Lay Still (2010) by James Robertson: http://insulaeuropea.eu/. 2011. - Review of the novel Red Dust Road (2010) by Jackie Kay: http://insulaeuropea.eu/. 2011. - Breve cronologia storica e culturale della Scozia Quaderni del Premio Acerbi, 11 Verona: Fiorini, 2010. 140-145. - Bibliografia degli studi scozzesi in Italia Quaderni del Premio Acerbi, 11 Verona: Fiorini, 2010. 146-158. - De/Re-Constructing Female Identity in (Auto)Biography: Clara: A Novel by Janice Galloway. Quaderni di Lingue e Letterature straniere, Università degli Studi di Verona, Edizioni Grafiche Fiorini: Verona, 2010. 61-74. Study and Research Experiences -30/05/2012-04/06/2012 International conference Crime Scotland Then and Now at the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen. -14-15/04/2011 International conference Regional Literary Cultures: Modernism and After at the University of Nottingham (recipient of scholarship of the Centre for Regional Cultures, University of Nottingham) -2009-2010 (April-June): Visiting Scholar at the University of Glasgow - Department of Scottish Studies, CooperInt Award. Participation to the courses and lectures of the Ph.D. in Scottish Studies. -Various research project since 2005 at the National Library of Scotland, at the Poetry Library in Edinburgh, at the University of Aberdeen (Special Archives and Collections), and at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow. -2005/2006: Summer School at the University of Edinburgh with a Scottish Universities Summer School scholarship: British and Irish Literature: Modernism and Post- Modernism. -2004/2005: semester at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland with a European Union Socrates-Erasmus scholarship. -August 2002: English language course at St. Giles College, London. -English Language: TOEFL - Test of English as a Foreign Language (mark: 110/120). -Spanish Language: Istituto Cervantes Nivel Inicial -July 2002: final exam at the grammar school Liceo Ginnasio S. Maffei in Verona (mark: 93/100). 4
Professional Affiliations -European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) -Società di Anglistica Italiana (AIA) -Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS) 5