ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL POSITION: Full Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature
SHORT BIO: Paola Villani is Full Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the Suor Orsola Benincasa University. At this university, where she is also Director of the Department of Humanities and Delegate of the Rector for orientation activities, she teaches Italian literature, Narratology and Travel literature.
SSD: L-FIL-LET/11
CURRICULUM: For the entire curriculum, please refer to the webpage https://www.unisob.na.it/universita/areadocenti/ricerca.htm?vr=3&id=108
MAIN RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Travel literature, Women's writing, the relationship between Literature and Journalism and between Narratology and Narrative Medicine, with monographic insights into authors such as Guido Morselli, Mario Pomilio, Carlo del Balzo, Matilde Serao and Anna Maria Ortese.
DIRECTION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
-2023: University Scientific Responsible for the PNRR ‘Orientation for active school-university transition’.
-2018-2019: Scientific Project Manager POR Campania FSE 2014-2020: ‘Policies for the competitiveness of Campania's production systems: mapping and analysis of instruments to strengthen administrative action’.
-Scientific Responsible Project CTN02_00015_9852246 ‘Intelligent services based on machine-learning for the retrieval of multimedia documents for low-cost video post-production and cross-media storytelling on cultural heritage - CultMEDIA’ within the National Research Programme 2015-2020 (‘PNR’ 2015-2020) D.D. 1610 of 03/08/2016.
-2015: University Scientific Coordinator for the annual TELECOM Foundation Project: Art in light, multimedia installations for no see you
-2013-2015: Scientific Director of the University for the three-year project ‘ACTIVITI, Cultural Attractions and Information Technologies for Interactive Enhancement and Innovative Tourism’ (Call POR 2007-2013. Campania grows in Europe)
-2011-2015: University Scientific Coordinator for the 2007-2013 PON Research Inter-University Project, Networks of Excellence University-Research Centres-Enterprises. Axis IV, human capital, Axis V, transnationality. Financial project title: Innovation and skills transfer Innosystems (lead partner University Parthenope);
-2012-2013: Scientific Coordinator of the University project ‘WORK LIFE BALANCE’ (POR FSE Campania 2007-13 Axis II, specific objective f), operational objective 2. NOTICE ‘TERRITORIAL GENDER AGREEMENTS’ (D.D. no. 613 of 7/08/2012);
-Member of the Scientific Committee PO FESR Campania 2007/2013, OO 2.1. Intervention in favour of SMEs and Research Organisations - Sportello dell'innovazione, ‘My Fair City’;
2007-2008: Scientific Responsible for the project ‘orient@mondo’ (PON Research 2000-2006) Suor Orsola Benincasa University
DIRECTION OR PARTICIPATION IN EDITORIAL COMMITTEES AND EDITORIAL MAGAZINES AND SERIES
-Since 2023: Scientific Committee International Journal ‘Lector’ (Panhellenic Union Of Teachers And Examiners Of The Italian Language)
-From 2022 To Present: Scientific Director Editorial Series ‘Kritik’, Mimesis Publishe
2021: Member Of The Scientific Committee Of The Journal ‘Medical Humanities E Medicina Narrativa’ - Aracne Editrice
-From 2018 To Present: Member Of The Scientific Committee Of The Journal ‘Critica Letteraria’ (Magazine Band A)
-From 2012 To Present: Member Of The Scientific Board Edizioni Studium And Referee For The Review ‘Studium’ (Fascia A Review)
-From 2016 To Present: Member Of The Scientific Committee Of The Journal ‘Napoli Nobilissima’ (Fascia A Journal)
• SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: MONOGRAPHS:
˗ (Curator), P. Villani, M. Paragliola, Viaggi d'autore verso Procida. Per una cartografia dell'immaginario, Milan, Mimesis, ‘Kritik’, 2023.
˗ (Curator), P. Villani, M. Paragliola, Medicina Narrativa. Teorie, pratiche e testimonianze, Roma, Aracne editrice, 2023.
˗ (Monograph) Romantic Naples. Literary Images from Italian and European Travellers in the Early Nineteenth Century, Peter Lang, 2020.
˗ (Monograph) Ritratti di signore: i galatei femminili nell'Italia belle époque e il caso Serao, Milan, Franco Angeli, 2018.
˗ (Monograph) Un mistico ribelle. A-theology and writing in Guido Morselli, Naples, Graus, 2012, pp. 320.
˗ (Monograph) The seduction of art. Pagliara, Pica, Di Giacomo: i carteggi, Napoli, Guida, 2010, pp. 240.
˗ (Monograph) La tentazione del moderno. Percorsi letterari da Machiavelli a Croce, La Città del Sole, Napoli 2004, pp. 159.
˗ (Monograph) Carlo Del Balzo. Un irpino cittadino d'Europa, Avellino, Elio Sellino, 2003, pp. 158.
˗ (Monograph) Carlo Del Balzo tra letteratura e politica, Naples, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Collana di Letteratura ‘Il Portale’, 2001, pp. 354.
˗ (Monograph) Il ‘caso’ Morselli. Il registro letterario-filosofico, Naples, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1998, pp. 139
• SELECTED RECENTS PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS:
- Francesco Mastriani e l'eruzione vesuviana del 26 aprile 1872, in ‘Critica Letteraria’, 2020, XLVIII, fasc. 4, 189/2020, pp. 761-780.
- From Narrative Medicine to Medical Narratology. L'Homo patiens come Homo textilis, in ‘Studium’, 2023, 1, pp. 280-319.
- Prima persona femminile: Anna Maria Ortese e la scrittura autobioscopica, in ‘Italianistica’, 3, 2020, pp. 51-63.
• SELECTED RECENTS PUBLICATIONS: BOOK CHAPTERS:
˗ ‘Among the millions of traces...’. The Digital Humanities as a formative challenge for the knowledge and dissemination of cultural heritage, in Beca Digital Source of library and documentary heritage for architecture and the arts, edited by Pasquale Rossi and Alessandro Castagnaro, Naples, Edizioni Paparo, 2024, pp. 10-14.
˗ La senescenza come racconto allo specchio del femminile materno, in Daniela De Liso, Valeria Merola, Sebastiano Valerio (eds.), Il racconto della malattia. Intersezione tra letteratura e medicina, Peter Lang, Brussels, 2023, pp. 201-215.
˗ Un profeta della Narrative Based Medicine, in Ciro Cenatiempo (ed.), Vincenzo Di Meglio profeta della medicina narrativa, Lecce, Pensa Multimedia, 2023, pp. 15-26.
˗ Archaeology of the future. Il cortocircuito antico/contemporaneo e il reale digitale di Franz Cerami, in Lighting Flowers, Naples, Editoriale Scientifica, 2023, pp. 58-63.
˗ Tra cronaca e storia, in num mon ‘MHMN’, 2023, pp. 13-23.
˗ Tra trauma e trama. Le storie che curano, in La bambola di ragzza, edited by Valentina De Giovanni, Naples, Homo scrivens, 2023.
˗ Prove di dialogo: le Humanities e la «quarta dimensione» dell’Università, in Enricomaria Corbi, Tommaso Frosini, Paola Villani (eds.), Parrhesia, In dialogo tra saperi, 2 vols, Naples, ES, 2023, vol. II, pp. 1319-1339.
˗ Il turismo che nasce dai libri. Quando il viaggio si fa narrazione, in Lucio d'Alessandro, Pasquale Rossi, Fabrizio Manuel Sirignano, Paola Villani (eds.), Cultural tourism ˗ Training experiences for the protection and use of the territory, Naples, Suor Orsola Benincasa Università Editrice, 2022, pp. 21-30.
˗ Le bestie angelo di Anna Maria Ortese, in Animal Land. Fra umano e animale nella letteratura e oltre..., edited by Ciro Pizzo and Gabriele de Martino di Montegiordano, Naples, Editoriale Scientifica, 2022, pp. 97-113.
˗ Italiane per bene: i galatei risorgimentali e il femminile a Napoli tra retorica e storia, in G. Genovese and N. Ruggiero (eds.), ‘Ma un giorno a me riesca la santa cosa...’. La letteratura come Maestra, Proceedings of the conference of studies in honour of Emma Giammattei, Naples, Suor Orsola Benincasa, Università editrice, 2021, pp. 15-31.
˗ Donne allo specchio: il racconto della fine, il racconto della fine, in Hanna Serkowska and Paola Villani (eds.), Perdutamente. Vecchiaia e declino cognitivo tra scienza e letteratura, Milan, FrancoAngeli, 2021, pp. 243-275.
˗ Per un itinerario letterario leopardiano nella ‘Napoli romantica’ / For a Leopardian Literary Itinerary in the ‘Romantic Naples’, in Gemma Belli, Fabio Mangone, Rosa Sessa (eds.), L'Italia del Touring Club, 1894-2019. Promotion, protection and enhancement of cultural heritage and landscape, in Storia dell'urbanistica, Edizioni Caracol, spec. no. 1/2021, ISBN 987-88-32 240-57-3, pp. 330-343.
˗ Sciascia e il teatro della memoria, in Massimo Tita (ed.), Della memoria. On justice. Settant'anni di Sciascia, supplement to the ‘Quaderni dell'Archivio Storico’, Fondazione Banco Napoli, 2021, pp. 203-223.
˗ L'altro mestiere, mestiere non altro. Michele Prisco giornalista, in Laura Cannavacciuolo and Carlo Vecce (eds.), Michele Prisco. Tra radici e memoria, Naples, Unipress, 2021, pp. 173-186.
˗ Viaggio virtuale: il Tour che nasce dai libri, in Territori. Racconti italiani tra persona e luoghi, Touring Club Italiano, 2021, pp. 21-23.
˗ Un’altra Campania. Le ragioni per una mostra, in Pasquale Rossi (ed.), Campania Textilis, Naples, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa, 2020, pp. 10-13.
˗ Luigi Settembrini e la pedagogia civile, in Cesare De Seta (ed.), La Rete dei Saperi nelle università napoletane da Federico II al duemila, Milan, Arte'm, 2020, pp. 371-379.