Gigliola Sulis

Lecturer in Italian

Gigliola Sulis

+44 (0) 113 343 3639

Biography

After a degree in modern Italian literature from the University of Cagliari (1998), I moved to the University of Reading, where I completed a Ph.D. in Italian studies (2005). The thesis focused on the work of Luigi Meneghello and Andrea Camilleri, within the general framework of multilingualism in modern Italian novels; my research approach integrates stylistics, narratology, and problems of identity raised by multicultural diversity. I taught in Exeter in 2004/05, before moving to Leeds in 2006. In 2008 I was awarded a Faculty of Arts Teaching Development Prize.

I have published on multilingual literature, the language and style of contemporary Italian writers, the literary canon, modern dialect poetry, Sardinian literature, and twentieth-century women's writing. I also have an interest in contemporary Italian history, with a main focus on the Resistance and on social unrest in the 1970s. I have organized and contributed to international conferences in Italy, England, Belgium, and France.

Teaching

Level Module
Level 1 Italian Language
Level 1 Narratives of Italy (short stories)
Level 2 Linguistic Variety in Modern Italy
Level 2 Italy: Regions, Identities and Nation
Level 3 Italian Language (translation into Italian)
Level 3 Language and Identity in 20th-Century Italian Novels

Research and selected publications

Edited volumes

  • F. Billiani and G. Sulis (eds), The Italian Gothic and Fantastic. Encounters and Re-writings of Narrative Traditions (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson, 2007)
  • (ed.) Sergio Atzeni, Scritti giornalistici (1966-1995), 2 vols (Nuoro: Il Maestrale, 2005)
  • M. Aresu, G. Sulis, and others (eds), Rivelazioni e promesse del '68 (Cagliari: Cuec, 2002)
  • G. Marci and G. Sulis (eds), Trovare racconti mai narrati, dirli con gioia: Convegno di studi su Sergio Atzeni (Cagliari: Cuec, 2001)

Selected articles and book chapters

  •  'Un esempio controcorrente di plurilinguismo. Il caso Camilleri', in in A. Capra, J. Nimis and C. Berger (eds), Les enjeux du plurilinguisme dans la littérature italienne (Toulouse: L'ECRIT, Publications du group CIRILLIS Toulouse-Bordeaux, 2007), pp. 213-30     
  • 'Camilleri as Pirandello's Reader: Intertextual Paths', Journal of the Society for Pirandello Studies (forthcoming)
  • 'Quale lettore per il romanzo plurilingue? Il caso Meneghello', in S. Vanvolsem et al. (ed.), Identità e diversità nella lingua e nella letteratura italiana (Florence: Cesati, 2008), vol I, pp. 147-56
  • 'Ridefinire il canone: i dialettali e le antologie poetiche del Novecento', The Italianist, 24 (2004), 77-106
  • 'Scritture e riscritture: Note sulle varianti d'autore di Fronti e frontiere di Joyce Lussu', Quaderni del Circolo Rosselli, 4 (2003), 81-95
  • 'Le parole di tutti i giorni. Appunti sulla scrittura di Joyce Lussu', in L. Plaisant (ed.), Joyce Lussu: una donna nella storia (Cagliari: Cuec, 2003), pp. 91-110
  • 'Lingua, cultura, identità: riflessioni sulla narrativa di Sergio Atzeni', in F. Brugnolo and V. Orioles (eds), Eteroglossia e plurilinguismo letterario, vol. II: Plurilinguismo e letteratura (Rome: Il Calamo, 2002), pp. 553-70
  • 'Ma Cagliari è Sardegna? Appunti sulla presenza di Cagliari nella narrativa sarda contemporanea (1986-2007), in G. Marcato (ed), L'Italia dei dialetti (Padova: Unipress, 2008), pp.433-41

Editorial work

Conferences organised

  • Italian Writers in Leeds
  • Italian Department Research Seminar Series 2007-08 (http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/research/researchseminars.htm)
  • The Gothic and Fantastic in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century Italy: Inheriting, Re-mapping, and Re-assessing Cultural Traditions, School of Advanced Studies - Institute of Romance Studies - The University of London, Senate House, 9-10 May 2003 (with Francesca Billiani)
  • Rivelazioni e promesse del '68, Istituto per la Storia della Resistenza e dell'Autonomia, Cagliari, October-December 1998 (responsible for the round table Rapporto tra i sessi e femminismo)
  • L'Italia ferita - Società, poteri e terrorismo, Istituto per la Storia della Resistenza e dell'Autonomia, Cagliari, 16-17 December 1997

Research supervision

I am able to supervise research on: multilingual literature, regional and dialect literatures, twentieth-century fiction (especially the contemporary novel).