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Members of the UniMore Unit:
Angela Albanese (P.I.) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Her research interests include the theory and history of translation, contemporary theatre, reception and rewriting practices, as well as the adaptation of texts across literary genres and media. Her publications include the volumes Metamorfosi del Cunto di Basile. Traduzioni, riscritture, adattamenti (2012); L’artefice aggiunto. Riflessioni sulla traduzione in Italia: 1900-1975 (co-edited with F. Nasi, 2015); Identità sotto chiave. Lingua e stile nel teatro di Saverio La Ruina (2017); Linguaggi, esperienze e tracce sonore sulla scena (co-edited with M. Arpaia, 2020); and A modo loro. Riscritture, transcodificazioni, dialoghi con i classici (2020); and Changes (ed.), Riscritture, sconfinamenti, talenti plurimi (2024). (ERC SH5_2; Academic Recruitment Field: 10/F4 – Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature)
Marina Bondi is Full Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Author of over 150 publications, she collaborates with several international journals and has delivered lectures and seminars in numerous countries, including France, Switzerland, Germany, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Finland, the USA, China, Vietnam, and Australia. Her research activity is mainly within the framework of discourse analysis and communicative genres in institutional, academic and professional communication contexts, also from an intercultural perspective. She studies in particular the impact of new technologies on communication and issues related to the dissemination of knowledge. While coordinating the Departmental project on Digital Humanities, she coordinated the Summer School on Digital Humanities and Digital Communication offered by the Department over the past four years (ERC SH4_11; academic recruitment field 10/L1 – English and Anglo-American languages, literatures and cultures).
Benedetta Bronzini is Junior Research Fellow at the University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (Italy) in the project Polimnia. Opera for All! She holds an international PhD (Bonn – Firenze) in Germanic and Comparative Studies focusing on author’s interview as a performative and documentary act, and took part in the international Project “Spacex (Spatial Practices in Arts & Architecture for Empathetic Exchange). The main topics of her research are Theater, Transmediality, 20th-Century and contemporary German Performance Studies, Franz Kafka, and Heiner Müller. She writes for “Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate e Storia delle Arti”, “Amsterdam Museum Journal”, and “Stratagemmi. Prospettive teatrali”, and “Visioni del Tragico”. In 2020 she published her first monograph Dare forma al silenzio. Heiner Müller e Pier Paolo Pasolini artisti dell’intervista.
Vincenzo Gannuscio is Associate Professor for German Language and Translation. He is responsible for teaching German language, mediation and translation, with particular attention to subtitling and theatrical surtitling. His main research interests are: didactics of German as a foreign language, contrastive grammar, grafematics, German spelling, German language history and politolinguistics. Alongside his academic career, he pursues artistic activities. He began his musical studies in childhood, studying accordion, at age eight, and later horn and clarinet. He discovered his passion for choral singing after moving to Italy. In Palermo he joined the Gruppo Polifonico del Balzo, performing sacred, secular, and folk polyphonic music under esteemed conductors. A basso-baritone, he trained with Claudia Garbi and Provvidenza Tortorella. He has performed in operas, oratorios, musicals and co-founded the vocal group SeiOttavi in 2004, where he remains an active member. (ERC SH4_6; SH4_7; SH 4_9; SH4_11; academic recruitment field 10/M1 – Germanic languages, literatures and cultures).
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International Partners of THE UNIMORE UNIT:
Alessandro Carrera (University of Houston, Texas); Jesse Rosenberg (Northwestern University, Chicago); Marc Jeannin and David Pouliquen (University of Angers and Presidents of international network “ Dire et Chanter Les Passions”); Uta Felten (University of Leipzig); Ita Mac Carthy and Hector Sequera Mora (Durham University); Federica G. Pedriali (University of Edinburgh); Elena Pierazzo and Philippe Vendrix (Université de Tour).
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