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Francesco Fava

Associate professor
Francesco Fava

Department of Communication, Arts and Media
Faculty of Interpreting and translation
Francesco Fava

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2018: Associate Professor in Spanish Literature, IULM Free University of Languages and Communication

2014: Achievement of the suitability for the role of 2nd level professor in the competition sector 10/I1 — Spanish and Spanish-American Languages, Literature and Culture (National Scientific Qualification, part-session 2012)

2014 - 2017: Senior Researcher (three-year contract) in Spanish Literature, Free University of Languages and Communication IULM

2009 - 2013: Temporary researcher in Spanish Literature, Free University of Languages and Communication IULM

2007: PhD in Romance Philology, University "La Sapienza" of Rome.

Thesis: "Reading of La Voz a ti debida (1933) by Pedro Salinas", rapporteur prof. Norbert von Prellwitz

2006-2008: Adjunct lecturer in "South American Literature", Faculty of Letters (Bachelor), University of Basilicata

2005-2009: Adjunct lecturer in "Spanish-Italian Literary Translation", Faculty of Interpreting and Translation (Master's Degree), Libera Università LUSPIO di Roma

2003 - 2007: Four-year research grant, Department of Romanistics, University of Verona. Theme: "The modern 'wide poem' in its Hispanic-American manifestations"

2002: Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, "La Sapienza" University of Rome. Thesis: "Translation of Piedra de sol by Octavio Paz", rapporteur: Prof. Norbert von Prellwitz

 

He is a member of the editorial committees of the magazines Orillas and Testo a fronte.

In 2017, he was the organizer, together with Prof. Gabriele Bizzarri, of the international conference: "2666, 650 years before: the place of a contemporary classic", University of Padua, 6-8 April 2017.

In 2014, he was the organizer, together with prof. Simone Celani and Marco Ramazzotti, of the conference: "The translated sign. Ideas, images, words in transit", Sapienza University of Rome, 11-12 December 2014.

In 2007, he won the "Leone Traverso" award for the best first work in the "Città di Monselice" translation award, with the translation of Pietra di sole by Octavio Paz.

 

MAIN AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

Theory and practices of literary translation

Spanish and Hispanic-American poetry of the 20th century

Contemporary Hispanic-American fiction

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.

    Monografie, traduzioni, curatele

    J. Herbert, La casa del dolore altrui, Narni, Granvia, 2018

    El lugar de un clásico contemporáneo: 2666 de Roberto Bolaño, numero monografico della rivista Orillas, 6, 2017 [insieme a G. Bizzarri]

    J. Portante, I quattro tremori del giardino, Milano, La vita felice, 2016 [insieme a Camilla Diez]

    R. Campra, Le porte di Cassiopea, Roma, Fahrenheit 451, 2015

    S. Elizondo, L’ipogeo segreto, Roma, EIR, 2015

    Tradurre un continente. La narrativa ispanoamericana nelle traduzioni italiane, Palermo, Sellerio, 2013 

    E. Dickinson, Io lascerò il mio cuore appena in vista. Poesie, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 2013

    P. Salinas, Il Contemplato, Roma, Editori Riuniti, 2012

    J. Gorostiza, Morte infinita, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2010

    Amor y sombras. Lettura di La voz a ti debida di Pedro Salinas, Pisa, ETS, 2009

    O. Paz, Pietra di Sole, Roma, Il Filo, 2006.

     

    Articoli

    “Progressus in infinitum. Narraciones intercaladas y arquitectura textual en 2666 de Roberto Bolaño”, Orillas, 6 (2017), http://orillas.cab.unipd.it/orillas/articoli/numero_6/04Fava_rumbos.pdf

    “Raccontare cantando: il poema extenso ispanico tra lirica e narratività”, in: Con parole sciolte. Lirica e narrazione dopo il Modernismo, ed. F. Gherardi, Pisa, Pacini Editore, 2016, pp. 171-192

    “ ‘La muerte toma siempre la forma de la alcoba’. Eros e forma in Gacela del amor imprevisto e Diván del Tamarit di Federico García Lorca”, in Orillas, 5 (2016), http://orillas.cab.unipd.it/orillas/05_02fava_arribos/

    “ ‘Un no sé qué que quedan balbuciendo’: l’inesprimibile, l’intraducibile”, Testo a fronte, 54, 2016, pp. 148-160

    “ «Tu stranamente viva sulle mie labbra»: la voce di Pedro Salinas nelle traduzioni di Vittorio Bodini”, in: Vittorio Bodini. Traduzione, ritraduzione, canone, ed. N. De Benedetto e I. Ravasini, Lecce, Pensa-Multimedia, 2015, pp. 241-263

    “Soma e cinza do teu mar. Le poesie galeghe di Federico García Lorca”, Polifemo, 7-8, 2014, pp. 115-128

    “El mundo es ancho y ajeno. Narrazioni del globale nella letteratura ispanoamericana (1996-2010)”, Testo a Fronte, 48, 2013, pp. 23-36

    “Soy eco de algo: una poetica del desiderio in Luis Cernuda” in: “Pueden alzarse las gentiles palabras”. Per Emma Scoles, ed. I. Ravasini e I. Tomassetti, Roma, Bagatto, 2013, pp. 116-139

    “Le infinite versioni. Alcuni bivi de La casa de Asterión di Jorge Luis Borges”, in: Tradurre un continente, cit., pp. 49-72

    “La biblioteca del traduttore. El viajero del siglo di Andrés Neuman”, in: La biblioteca dello scrittore. Percorsi intertestuali nella narrativa spagnola contemporanea, ed. E. Sarmati e S. Trecca, Roma, Nuova Cultura, 2012, pp. 151-173

    “Urbanismo magico? O urbanismo macintosh? La città ispanoamericana tra McOndo e Santa Teresa”, Orillas, 1, 2012, http://orillas.cab.unipd.it/orillas/articoli/numero_1/03Fava_rumbos.pdf

    “Viaje alrededor de un vaso de agua. Formas del agua, naufragios de la forma en Muerte sin fin y en el poema extenso”, Cuadernos Americanos, XXV, 4, 2011, pp. 127-153

    “Hay demasiadas cosas intraducibles’: Juan Rulfo, tradotto e abbandonato”, Letterature d’America, XXX, 128, 2010, pp. 111-130.

    “Felice il fiume che passando resta. La salvezza e il tempo da Jorge Guillén a Octavio Paz (1936-1957)”, in: Il Poemetto. Un esempio novecentesco di ricerca poetica, ed. M.C. Graña, Cagliari, Cuec, 2008, pp. 191-230

    “‘Si un mismo río riega todo lo viviente’. Piedra de Sol, poema de confluencias”, in: Lecturas de Piedra de Sol , ed. H. Verani, México, FCE, 2007, pp. 141-169

    “Editare l’inquietudine. Idee per una nuova edizione del Livro do Desassossego di Fernando Pessoa”, La parola del testo, X, 2, 2006, pp. 397-415

    “El Contemplado de Pedro Salinas: la salvación, el poema”, Cuadernos Americanos, 117, 2006, pp. 225-238

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Although IULM University takes all necessary care to ensure the publication of correct, updated and complete information, it is not responsible for the contents of the curricula published online on the Portal www.iulm.it. The holder of this curriculum vitae is the exclusive guarantor and responsible for the correctness and truthfulness of the information contained therein.