BIZZOTTO ELISA

EDUCATIONAL HISTORY

July 1995
Laurea 110 cum laude (M.A. First Class Honour), English Literature, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice. Thesis: Pater’s Imaginary Portraits: A Study of Character.

November 1996 - December 2000
Ph.D. in English Literature, University of Florence. Thesis: Il ritratto immaginario fin de siècle: Studio della short story decadente [The Fin-de-Siècle Imaginary Portrait: A Study of the Decadent Short Story].

January 2002 - December 2004
Three-year post-doctoral fellowship, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Department of European and Postcolonial Studies. Research project: Intrecci del decadentismo europeo [Interconnections in European Decadence].


ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

2003-2010
Temporary Lecturer in English Language and Translation at the University Ca’ Foscari of Venice.

2003-2006
Temporary Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Trento.

2006-2009
Temporary Lecturer in Glottodidactics of the English Language at the University of Trento, School of Specialisation for Secondary Education (SSIS).

2006-2007
Temporary Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Trento, School of Specialisation for Secondary Education (SSIS).

2008-2009
Temporary Lecturer in History of English Culture at the University of Trento.

October 2009-May 2016
Lecturer in English Literature at the Faculty of Design and Arts, Iuav University of Venice (2009-2012), then at the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments, Iuav University of Venice (2013-2015), and finally at the Department of Architecture Construction Conservation, Iuav University of Venice (January-May 2016).

June 2016-
Associate professor of English Literature at the Department of Architecture Construction Conservation, Iuav University of Venice.


FIELDS OF STUDY

INTERART / INTERMEDIAL STUDIES
Interart osmosis in the works of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde, Vernon Lee, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons and Aubrey Beardsley.

WALTER PATER
Pater’s hybridisation of literary genres and modes, re-reading of classical and modern myths, role as an aesthetic critic, legacy and reception.

AESTHETICISM AND DECADENCE
The two periods are studied from comparative approaches, with a special attention to the relationships between Bitish and Italian culture.

COMPARATIVE STUDIES AND INTERCULTURAL STUDIES
Fin-de-siècle interrelations between British and Italian culture; the influence of the Aesthetic Movement on Gabriele d’Annunzio and Giovanni Pascoli; Vernon Lee as a cultural mediator between Italy and Great Britain.

RECEPTION STUDIES
The reception of British Aesthetic and Decadent authors in Italy.

RECEPTION AND REWRITING OF MYTHS
Classical mythology in the fin de siècle and early twentieth century; interart, intergenre and intermode studies of modern myths (Tannhäuser, Faust, Saint Sebastian) in the Victorian and late-Victorian period.

TRANSLATION STUDIES
Rhetoric of translation; visual aspects of written texts: ekphrasis and hypotyposis.


PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

1999
Delivers the paper “The Legend of the Returning Gods in Pater and Wilde”, Myth, Religion, Ideology from Romanticism to Modernism, University Ca’ Foscari of Venice, Department of European and Postcolonial Studies, Venice, 3-4 June 1999.

2003
Delivers the paper “The Earliest Days of our Florentine Spring: Vernon Lee’s Italian Sisterhood”, Vernon Lee. A Literary Revenant, University of London, Institute of English Studies, 10 June 2003.

2004
Delivers the paper “Vernon Lee e la fiaba popolare italiana” [Vernon Lee and the Italian Folklore tale], Scrivere i confini. Letteratura, cultura istituzioni, Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Europei e Postcoloniali, April 2004.

2005
Delivers the paper “L’Olimpo mediterraneo di Vernon Lee tra Pater e Forster” [Vernon Lee’s Mediterranean Olympus between Pater and Forster], Dalla stanza accanto. Vernon Lee e Firenze Settant’anni dopo, Firenze, Consiglio Regionale della Toscana, Gabinetto Vieusseux and The British Institute of Florence, Florence, 26-28 May 2005.

2006
Delivers the paper “Questioning Pater’s Quest for Beauty and Masculinity: Modern Myths and the Legend of Tannhäuser”, Walter Pater: New Questions, Latent Questionings, International Walter Pater Society Conference, University of Rutgers, New Brunswick, New Jersey, 27-29 July 2006.

2008
Delivers the paper “Children of Pleasure: Oscar Wilde and the D’Annunzio Circle”, The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe, Trinity College, Oxford, 8-9 March 2008.

"L’origine, il fine. Le arti e la cultura vittoriana attraverso lo sguardo dei Preraffaelliti", presentation of The Germ. Thoughts towards Nature in Poetry, Literature and Art, a cura, e con introduzione, di Elisa Bizzotto e Paola Spinozzi, Trento, Editrice Università di Trento, Collana Reperti, 2008, Biblioteca Ariostea, Ferrara, 2 December 2008.

2009
Discussant of “Searching for an Identity. The Trajectory of China and Hong Kong Fashion”, paper delivered by Wessie Ling, Treviso, IUAV University of Venice, Faculty of Design and Arts, 3 December 2009.

2010
Delivers the paper “The Fantastic as Medium for Fin-de-Siècle Aesthetic Enquiry: Wilde, Pater, Lee, Beardsley”, ESSE 10 Conference, panel on The Fantastic in the Fin de Siècle, University of Turin, 24-28 August 2010.

Delivers the paper "Tradurre 'The Germ': Dante Gabriel, Christina, William Michael", Corso Alta Formazione "Traduzione letteraria e multiculturalità", Vasto, Centro Europeo di Studi Rossettiani, 11-13 November 2010.

2011
Delivers the paper "Oscar Wilde's Italian Reception in Aesthetic, Decadent and post-Decadent Culture", Reading and Reception Studies Seminar, University of London, 25 January 2011.

Delivers the paper "The Style is the Man: problemi di stile nella letteratura artistica dell'Ottocento" [The Style is the Man: stylistic issues in nineteenth-century artistic literature], seminario "Stile e stili: architettura, letteratura artistica, musicologia, cinema, drammaturgia, arti figurative e applicate di fronte a questioni dello stile" organised by prof. Guido Zucconi, Venice, 2 February 2011.

Organiser of the seminar "Walter Pater e le poetiche interartistiche del secondo Ottocento", seminario della Scuola Dottorale Interateneo in Storia delle Arti "Walter Pater: poetiche interartistiche e interculturali nell'estetismo", Venice 1 March 2011.

Delivers the paper "Vernon Lee e Eugene Lee-Hamilton: autobiografia e riscrittura in un dialogo a distanza" [Vernon Lee and Eugene Lee-Hamilton: autobiography and re-writing in a dialogue at a distance], Convegno "Una sconfinata infatuazione: Firenze e la Toscana nelle metamorfosi della cultura angloamericana, 1861-1915", Florence, 16-17 June 2011.

30 June 2011: participates in the roundtable for a future Collected Edition dell’opera omnia di Walter Pater at the University of Exeter.

1-2 July 2011: delivers the paper “Pater as Intellectual Herald of British Decadence” at the conference 'Decadent Poetics', University of Exeter.

2012
17-18 February 2012: delivers the paper “The Fantastic as Means of fin-de-siècle Aesthetic Expression and Enquiry” at the conference Literature, Culture and the Fantastic: Challenges of the Fin-de-Siècle(s), Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Rijeka (Croatia).

3 April 2012: gives the lecture "Laus Veneris: Swinburne’s Belle Dame sans Merci" at the University of Trento.

4 April 2012: gives the lecture "Illustrating Wilde/Writing Beardsley: The Case of Salomé" at the University of Trento.

30 June-1 July 2012: delivers the paper “Classical Culture in Pater’s Imaginary Portraits” at the seminar "Pater the Classicist", Faculty of Arts, University of Bristol.

4-8 September 2012: delivers the paper “Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved. The Persistence of Liminality” at the seminar "Hardy as a Liminal Writer", XI ESSE Conference, Bogazici University, Istanbul.

27-28 September 2012: member of the scientific Committee of the conference "Violet del Palmerino. Aspetti della cultura cosmopolita nel salotto di Vernon Lee 1889-1935", sponsored by the Institut Français de Florence, The British Institute of Florence, ìAssociazione Culturale Il Palmerino, Fondation André et Berthe Noufflard, Pôle Image de Haute-Normandie, Laboratoire ORACLE, Niama, e AWA (Advancing women artists). The conference was held in Florence (Institut Français de Florence, The British Institute of Florence, the Villa il Palmerino). She delivers the paper “Miss Brown al Palmerino: esteti e decadenti al cospetto di Vernon Lee”.

12 December 2012: presents the volume The Germ. Origins and Progenies of Pre-Raphaelite Interart Aesthetics (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2012), whose co-author she is, at Centro Italiano di Cultura di Londra.

28-29 June 2013: delivers the paper “‘Strange webs with Eastern merchants’: The Orient of Aesthetic Poetry” at the conference Victorian Orientalism(s), University of Catania.

12-14 September 2013: co-organises the seminar "A tale of Two Cities" with prof.ssa Elena Dellapiana (Politecnico di Torino) at the conference "Visible and invisible: perceiving the city between descriptions and omissions" (VI congresso AISU - Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana) in Catania, Monastero dei Benedettini. She delivers the paper “Impero e decadenza: rappresentazioni letterarie della Londra tardo-vittoriana”.

13-14 September 2013: delivers the paper “The Germ and its Offspring. An Interart and Intercultural Perspective” at the conference "Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future", Ashmolean Museum and St. John’s College, Oxford.

2-4 October 2013: participates in the workshop Re-valuing Aestheticism and Modernism through their (Dis)credited Figures. Aesthetics, Ethics and Economics 1860-1940, funded by ESF (European Science Foundation), at the University of Montpellier 3. She delivers the paper “Re-Crediting Arthur Symons, Decadent-Modernist Literary Ghost”.

11-14 June 2014: member of the scientific committee of the conference "Cosmopolitan Wilde" held in Paris, Centre Culturel Irlandais. She delivers the paper “Salomé and Saint Sebastian: Decadent Myths in Wilde and D’Annunzio” (https://oscholars.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/final-programme.pdf).

3-5 July 2014: delivers the paper “Dis-continuous Minds: Madness in Pater and After” at the International Walter Pater Conference "Walter Pater: Continuity and Discontinuity", in Paris, University of la Sorbonne.

25 September 2015: co-organiser (with Stefano Evangelista, Trinity College, Oxford) of the international symposium "Arthur Symons. Writing Across Arts and Cultures" at the University Iuav of Venice (http://www.iuav.it/Ateneo1/strutture-/progettazi/attivit--c/2015/Arthur-Sym/index.htm).

4-7 May 2016: participates in the international symposium "Vernon Lee. Cosmopolitan Intellectual", whose co-organiser she is, at the Villa il Palmerino, Florence.

22-26 August 2016: co-organiser of the seminar “Impressions 1860-1920” at the XIII ESSE conference, University of Galway. She delivers the paper “Aestheticist Impressions Abroad: Late-Victorian Little Magazines and their Italian Imitations”.

15-17 December 2016: organiser and scientific director of the conference "Mario Praz. Voce dentro la scena", held at the University Iuav of Venice, the University Venice Ca’ Foscari and the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti. She delivers the paper “Marius the Epicurean, Walter the Medusean: Praz’s Reception of Pater”.

17-20 May 2017: participates in the NAVSA/AVSA conference in Florence, Villa La Pietra, as co-organiser of the panel "Pater, Pater’s Circles, and the Florentine Scene", in collaboration with Michael Davis (Le Moyne College) and Lee Belhman (Montclair State University).

14-16 September 2017: participates in the XXVIII AIA conference at the University of Pisa and delivers the paperì “The Child in the House of Life. The House Trope at the fin de siècle and After”.

30 November-1 December 2017: participates in the PRA (Progetto di Ricerca d'Ateneo) seminar "" at the University of Pisa and delivesr the paper "Locale e Transnazionale: il Movimento Estetico, Walter Pater e la cultura italiana, 1885-1930".

27 March 2018: gives the lecture "“Ritratti di Mr W. S.”: Appropriazioni shakespeariane in Wilde e nella fin de siècle" at the University "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara.

11-12 May 2018
She will deliver the paper "Fin-de-Siècle Houses and their Afterlives: Desire and Taste in European Culture" at the conference "Curiosity and Desire in fin-de-siècle Art and Literature", at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library University of California, Los Angeles.


COLLABORATIONS WITH CULTURAL MAGAZINES AND REVIEWS

1) MEMBER OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD OF:
Studies in Walter Pater and Aestheticism (http://swpa.info/editorialboard/) [ISSN 2445-5962].

English Literature (http://edizionicafoscari.unive.it/it/edizioni/riviste/english-literature/) [ISSN: 2385-1635]

ìVolupté. Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadent Studies (https://volupte.gold.ac.uk/editorial/) [ISSN: 2515-0073].

Journal of Comparative Studies (http://humanitiessocial.lv/strukturvienibas/kulturas-petijumu-centrs/zinatniskie-izdevumi/zinatniskais-zurnals-komparativistikas-almanahs/) [ISSN: 2255-9388]



2) REFEREE FOR:
RSV. Rivista di Studi Vittoriani [ISSN 1128-2290]
Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione [ISSN 2284-4473]
La Rivista di Engramma [ISSN 1826-901X]
E-rea. Revue électronique d’études sur le monde anglophone [ISSN 1638-1718]