University Centre for Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE)

Over the past three decades, CUSVE has organised ten international conferences held at the “Gabriele d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara:

• Hypotheses on Victorian Literature (Pescara, November 1994)
• Before Life and After: Poetry and Narrative in the Victorian Period (Pescara, April 1997)
• Letter(s): Functions and Forms of Letter-Writing in Victorian Art and Literature (Pescara, November 2000)
• Victorian Literature and Means of Transport: From Ship to Spaceship (Pescara, December 2004)
• Female Writers: from Mary Wollstonecraft to Virginia Woolf (Pescara, November 2007)
• Elizabeth Gaskell and the Art of the Short Story (Pescara, October 2010)
• Dialogic Dickens: Invention and Transformation (Chieti, December 2012)
• Victorian and Neo-Victorian Aesthetics: Texts, Theories, and the Paths of Imagination (Chieti, October 2015)
• Victorian Metamorphoses. Rewritings, Remediations, Translations, Transcodifications (Chieti, October 2018)
• “This Particular Web”: George Eliot and the Others (Chieti, November 2019)
• The Language of Science in the Long Nineteenth Century (online, October 2021)
• The Victorians and the Ancient World (Chieti, October 2023)

“NEO-VICTORIAN DECADENCE”: First International CUSVE-DRC Joint Conference (Chieti, 26-28 October 2022)

As part of its dissemination activity, CUSVE has organised and promoted a number of events, including seminars and lectures by renowned Victorian and Edwardian scholars. Below are some of the most recent events organised and promoted by the Centre:

• Seminar “Disincanto e conflitto nel romanzo vittoriano: modelli di mondo in cerca d’autore”, heldy by Professor Francesco Marroni (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara) and organised by Professor Francesca D’Alfonso at the University of Molise (Campobasso, 23 May 2024)
• Seminar “Dante nell’Ottocento inglese: echi e suggestioni”, organised by Professor Anna Enrichetta Soccio, with Professor Tania Zull, Dr. Marco Canani, Dr. Maria Luigia Di Nisio (Chieti, 13 May 2021)
• Conference with performance “Victorian Shakespeare. Le tragedie fra testo, pittura e performance”, organised by Professor Anna Enrichetta Soccio under the auspices of the School of Performing Arts of the Marrucino Theatre (Chieti) and the FAI Giovani – Chieti (Chieti, 7 May 2019)
• Conference with exhibition and concert “Mark Kostabi. Quando la pittura incontra la musica” (Chieti, 6 March 2019)
• Conference organised under the auspices of CUSVE ”Jane Austen: Silenzi, lacune, allusioni” (Università degli Studi del Molise, 7-8 novembre 2017)
• Seminars Charles Dickens’s Genius: The Inimitable and the Imitable (Chieti, June/July/September 2012)

• Professor Francesca Orestano (University of Milan): “Dickens e l’Italia: Prospettive ecocritiche” and “Dickens and Woolf: Two Londonders” (4 December 2024)
• Professor Alessandra Petrina (University of Padua): “Morte e resurrezione di William Shakespeare” (28 April 2023)
• Cicely Havely (writer): “What Next? Responding to the Invitation that Concludes Jane Eyre” (27 April 2023)
• Professor Nick Havely (York University): “Dante’s Mountains and Nineteenth Century Travels: Pursuing the Poet in the Apennines” (27 Aprile 2023)
• Professor Pierpaolo Martino (University of Bari): “The Wilde Legacy: Oscar Wilde nella cultura pop” (7 May 2021)
• Professor Rocco Coronato (University of Padua): “Emozioni, gelosia e replicanti: da Blade Runner a Othello” (17 April 2018)
• Professor Elisa Bizzotto (Iuav University of Venice): “Ritratti di Mr W.S.: appropriazioni shakespeariane in Wilde e nella fin de siècle” (27 March 2018)
• Professor Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford): “Diseases of Modern Life” (21 October 2016)
• Professor Enrico Reggiani (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan): “Song e Self secondo William Butler Yeats (12 November 2013)
• Professor Richard C. Sha (American University, Washington, DC): “Romantic Matter and the Romantic Imagination: Kant and Shelley” (21 October 2013); “William Blake and the Neurological Imagination: Romantic Science and the Self as Nerves” (22 October 2013)