Francesca Guidotti Curriculum vitae Assistant Professor of English Literature Department of Sciences of Language, Communication and Cultural Studies Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures Bergamo University Piazza Rosate 2 24129 Bergamo (BG) Italy 035-2052743 francesca.guidotti@unibg.it EDUCATION 2002: Master in Multimedia Publishing and Digital Communication - Poliedra, Polytechnic University of Milan 2001-2003: Postdoctoral fellowship 1997-2000: PhD in Literary Theory and Textual Analysis University of Bergamo 1997: Master MA TESOL - Institute of Education (IOE), University of London: one term attendance (SOCRATES and ERASMUS Programmes) 1996: Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures summa cum laude (110/110L) - University of Bergamo TEACHING EXPERIENCE Since 2005: Assistant Professor of English Literature (Letteratura inglese I 2 B, Letteratura inglese II 2 B, Letteratura inglese moderna e contemporanea B) 2003-2004: Temporary Professor of English Literature (Letteratura inglese II A e II B) Since 1997: Instructor in English Literature 1995-1996: Didactics and research, University of Bergamo (CARIPLO Scholarship) From 1997 to 2004: Teacher of English in Italian High Schools (tenured teacher since 2000)
MULTIMEDIA PROJECTS Since 2002: Project manager 25.11.2002: Premio Cenacolo "Editoria e Innovazione", sezione Giovani (ASSOLOMBARDA) - First Prize "cittabitabile" (teaching citizenship), e-learning and e-government project for 6-11 year-old children and teachers RESEARCH LINES Science fiction, the gothic novel, contemporary re-appropriations of Shakespeare by popular culture, contaminations between literature and the media PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) ANDA (Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Anglistica) IASEMS (Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies) LECTURES AND CONFERENCES Panel "Who's Afraid of William Shakespeare?", for the Italian première of the film "ANONYMOUS" by Roland Emmerich (Erba, Teatro Excelsior, 11 novembre 2011) Insegnare Shakespeare e Verdi: percorsi interdisciplinari e CLIL Workshop "Prosa e teatro musicale a scuola Macbeth (da Shakespeare a Verdi): Il teatro musicale, strumento pedagogico e multimediale" (Milano, Teatro dei Filodrammatici, 27 settembre 2011) Panel on Shakespeare and Early Modern Researches in Italian Universities International Conference Shakespeare e la nuova scienza in età early modern/shakespeare and the New Science in Early Modern Culture, in collaboration with IASEMS - Italian Association of Shakespearean and Early Modern Studies (Roma Tre University, Rome, 9-10 Giugno 2011) Ban the bomb: scene dalla guerra fredda
Paper presented at the Workshop Vincitori e vinti: continuità, trasformazioni, nuove identità nella scena culturale britannica e tedesca degli anni '50 (Tuscia University, Viterbo, 19-21 maggio 2011) Vampiric Technologies: Mass Communication and Blood Consumption in the Media Landscape Paper presented at the 8th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media - Sponsored by The Mass Media & Communication Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and Research AT.IN.E.R. (Athens, 17-20 May 2009) Human Minds in Posthuman Bodies: the Cyborg Challenge to This World and the Next Paper presented at the XXIV National AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Conference (Roma Tre University, Rome, 1-3 October 2009) Shakespearean Migrancy: Henry V for Managers Paper presented at the XXIII National AIA (Associazione Italiana di Anglistica) Conference Forms of migration / migration of forms, (University of Bari, 20-22 September 2007) The Shifting Margins of Desire: Crash as Science-fiction and Beyond Paper presented at the International Conference on J. G. Ballard From Shanghai to Shepperton (The University of West Anglia, Norwich, 5-6 May 2007) Disastro spaziale e apocalisse atomica: l astronauta in Cronache del dopobomba di Philip K. Dick Paper presented at the Conference Narrazioni dell'immaginario apocalittico (University of Milan, 2 March 2007) Il futuro di Eros: gli scenari della fantascienza Paper presented at the Conference Eros ed educazione (University of Bergamo, 6-7 May 2005)
PUBLICATIONS A. C. Clarke s A Meeting With Medusa: the Cyborg Challenge to This World and the Next, in R. Ambrosini, R. Colombo, A. Contenti, D. Corona, L.M. Crisafulli, F. Ruggieri (Eds.), Challenges for the 21st Century Dilemmas: Ambiguities, Directions, Papers from the 24th AIA Conference, Vol. I. Literary and Cultural Studies, Edizioni Q, Roma, 2011, pp. 447-454 Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do. Memorie dell era spaziale, in "Elephant & Castle", vol. 4, 2011, p. 5-32, http://193.204.255.75/elephant_castle/web/saggi/emplanet-earth-is-blue-and-there-s-nothing-i-can-do-em-memorie-dell-era-spaziale/65 Macbeth: dal contesto al testo, contribution to the national project "Prosa & Teatro Musicale a Scuola", http://www.istruzione.it/alfresco/d/d/workspace/spacesstore/74bd1081-3d82-4a5f-b663-596ff168594b/prosa_teatro_musicale_scuola_2010_regolamento.pdf. The project, aimed at the performance of Shakespeare's play and Verdi's opera, was chosen by MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research) to promote excellence in highschools (2010-2011) and was then launched at national level (2011-2012); it is recommended and sponsored by British Institutes and L'ILOPERA Association in collaboration with the National Association of Italian Pedagogists, among others. Interview with J. G. Ballard, in Spaces of Utopia, n. 7, 2009, pp. 15-33, http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/7487.pdf Richard Olivier s Inspirational Leadership: Henry V for Managers, in V. Intonti, F. Troisi, M. Vitale (Eds.), Forms of Migration / Migration of Forms. Cultural Studies. Proceedings of the 23rd AIA Conference, Progedit, Bari, 2009, pp.103-112 Space Oddity di David Bowie: proteine contro il mal di spazio, http://www.letteratour.it, 2008 Il ritorno dell eroe: The Dead Astronaut di J. G.Ballard, http://www.letteratour.it, 2008
Media, bombe e rock'n'roll: l astronauta in Dr. Bloodmoney di Philip K. Dick, http://www.iperstoria.it, 2008 A Different Business: Henry V for Managers, in Alessandra Marzola (Ed.), The Difference of Shakespeare, Edizioni Sestante, 2008, pp. 135-150 Il futuro di Eros: gli scenari della fantascienza, in Alberto Zatti (Ed.), Eros ed educazione, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2006, pp. 51-65 Cyborg e dintorni. Le formule della fantascienza, Edizioni Sestante, Bergamo University Press, Bergamo, 2003 Postfazione, in Philip K. Dick, Tempo fuor di sesto, Fanucci Editore, Roma, 2003, pp. 261-264 A scuola di cittadinanza con cittabitabile, in A. Andronico, G. Dettori, L. Ferlino, G. Olimpo (Eds.), Atti del convegno Didamatica 2003 Informatica per la Didattica, 2003, pp. 548-551 J. G. Ballard and the absent paradigm of science fiction: a reading of Crash, in Textus (rivista dell Associazione Italiana di Anglistica), Anno XIV (2001), n. 1, pp. 69-86 Il cyborg tra identità epistemica e personaggio narrativo: corpi e superfici nel romanzo Neuromancer di William Gibson, in Giovanni Bottiroli (Ed.), Problemi del Personaggio, Bergamo University Press, Edizioni Sestante, 2001, pp. 249-274 Intervista a J. G. Ballard, in Linea d Ombra, gennaio 1999, pp. 68-71 La Fantascienza Immaginativa di J. G. Ballard nel Racconto Prima Belladonna, in Il Confronto Letterario, Quaderni del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne dell Università di Pavia, Anno XV, n. 30, Novembre 1998, pp. 601-616