BEAM: Bodies, Ecology and Moving Identities: Towards a Partnership Paradigm - PRIN 2022
Missione 4 Componente 2 - M4C2 – Progetto PRIN 2022 prot. 2022LB5YW4_03
The project examines how literatures in English, ecolinguistics, ecoliteracy, and language teaching create a transcultural dialogue among different peoples and identities. The research investigates the identity representations of peoples migrating across geographical, cultural, linguistic and political borders from the perspective of the multifaceted relationships between bodies, ecology and powers, and of the resulting narratives and counter-narratives created to describe locai and global identities.
The aims of the research project are:
- to develop transcultural ecoliteracy, ecolinguistic and dialogical-relational competence in national and international contexts;
- to foster relationships of mutual respect among different cultures and societies, encouraging new forms of transnational, cultural and literary creativity through a variety of voices.
The members of the three Research Units (Udine, Salento, Chieti-Pescara) are part of the international Partnership Studies Group (PSG), which has achieved notable scientific results since its foundation in 1998 in studying the dynamics of dominator/partnership power paradigms as they affect, and are affected by, cultural and political transformations.
Project code 2022LB5YW4
Project title Bodies, Ecology and Moving Identities: Towards a Partnership Paradigm (Acronym: BEAM)
Principal Investigator (PI) Professor Antonella Riem, University of Udine
ERC Fields SH5_2 Theory and history of literature, comparative literature; SH5_8 Cultural studies, cultural identities and memories, cultural heritage
Keywords English Literature; Postcolonial Studies; Partnership Studies; English Language; Language Learning; Cultural Studies
Total funding € 387.589 (Udine € 211.691, Salento € 61.873, Chieti-Pescara € 114.025)
University of Udine
Principal Investigator: Professor Antonella RIEM
Participants: Maria BORTOLUZZI, Lucia FIORELLA, Mattia MANTELLATO (Enna “Kore”), Milena ROMERO ALLUÈ, Deborah SAIDERO
University of Salento
Unit Coordinator: Professor Maria Renata DOLCE
Participants: Maria Luisa DE RINALDIS AROMOLO, Loredana SALIS (Sassari)
“G. d’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Unit Coordinator: Professor Anna Enrichetta SOCCIO
Participants: Raffaella ANTINUCCI (Napoli “Parthenope”), Marco CANANI, Myriam DI MAIO, Tania ZULLI
The Research Unit focuses on writers and texts foregrounding transitional and transnational identities, gender issues, and cultural dialogism from the Romantic age to the present so as to outline historical variations and continuities. More specifically:
- Anna Enrichetta SOCCIO will investigate the only seemingly conflicting duality of landscapes and cityscapes in the work of Victorian and Edwardian writers such as Dickens, Meredith, Hardy and Forster whose preoccupations with environment and eco-sustainability have been so far unacknowledged or neglected.
- Marco CANANI will explore the transnational side inherent in the construction of the British cultural identity in the culminating years of the Napoleonic Wars and the aftermath of the Congress of Vienna. Specific focus will be placed on the tension between national concerns and cosmopolitanism in poets such as Hunt, Shelley, and Keats, and in Romantic periodicals.
- Tania ZULLI will foreground the transnational status of late Victorian fiction, with specific focus on transitional/transnational identities in colonial writers such as Conrad and Rider Haggard and in postcolonial literature (Gordimer) who discuss great cultural changes from a linguistic and a behavioural point of view.
- Raffaella ANTINUCCI will study Anglo-Italian relations and their development from the early to the late Victorian period with an emphasis on the emergence of an ecological culture in the context of environmental crisis which started together with the technological era.
18 March 20204
Popoli, identità, ecologia: dal dominio alla partnership transculturale
PRIN Seminar – University of Udine
27 November 2024
Fredric Jameson: Postmodernism and Theory
Lecture by Professor Gloria Lauri-Lucente (Unversity of Malta) – “G. d’Annunzio” University Chieti-Pescara
28-29 November 2024
PRIN Conference – “G. d’Annunzio” University Chieti-Pescara
4 December 2024
Dickens e l’Italia: Prospettive ecocritiche
Dickens and Woolf: Two Londoners
Two Lectures by Professor Francesca Orestano (University of Milan) – “G. d’Annunzio” University Chieti-Pescara