Dr Marina Spunta
Senior Lecturer in Italian
Dott Ling Lett Stran (Bologna), MPhil (Exeter), PhD (Birmingham)
Contact Details
- Email: ms96@le.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2658
- Office: 1111
- Office hours: Tuesday 15:00-17:00
- Subject: Italian
Research Summary
Dr Marina Spunta’s research interests include postwar Italian fiction, photography and cinema, particularly the debates on orality, and on space, place and landscape. Her interest in orality has resulted in her PhD (Birmingham, 2003), a number of essays and a monograph, Voicing the Word: Writing Orality in Contemporary Italian Fiction (Peter Lang, 2004), as well as a conference and a co-edited volume with Michael Caesar on Orality and literacy in modern Italian culture (Legenda, 2006). She has also co-edited Proteus, the language of metamorphosis (Ashgate, 2005). In 2007 she co-organised a conference on Gianni Celati, who was special guest together with writers Daniele Benati, Ermanno Cavazzoni, Jean Talon and Enrico De Vivo; a co-edited volume by the title Letteratura come fantasticazione appeared in print in December 2009. She has published in a number of journals on various contemporary writers. Her monograph on Claudio Piersanti was published by Cadmo (Florence) in 2009.
Her current project investigates the representations of space and landscape in contemporary Italian fiction and photography.
Research Student Supervision
Dr Spunta is co-supervising Oliver Brett on contemporary French and Italian documentary filmmaking.
Teaching and Administration
Teaching:
- Italy since 1945
- Authors & genres 2
- Italian language advanced 1 & 2
- Italian language advanced 3 & 4
- Elements of Italian linguistics
- European texts in translation
- History of Italian cinema
- Italian language 5 & 6
- Contemporary fiction
- Postwar directors
Administration within the Italian Department:
- Language coordinator together with Dr Sonia Cunico
- Library representative
- Year Abroad coordinator (Italian)
- Exams (sem.1)
Aministration within the School of Modern Languages:
- Semester 1: College Academic Board andDegree Approval and Termination panels
- Semester 2: Acting Head of School
Recent Publications
Claudio Piersanti, Florence: Cadmo, 2009
L. Rorato & M. Spunta (eds), Letteratura come fantasticazione. In conversazione con Gianni Celati, Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2009
