Elisa Gambaro

Elisa Gambaro obtained her PhD in History of Italian Language and Literature in 2007 at the University of Milan. She spent a year of research and teaching at New York University. Between 2007 and 2008 she collaborated in the Laboratory of Creative Writing held by Prof. Paolo Giovannetti at IULM.
Between 2008 and 2013 he was awarded research grants at the Centro Apice of the University of Milan and at the Department of Literary, Philological and Linguistic Studies of the same University: in these years he has been responsible for the digital cataloguing of the Futurist journals preserved at Apice, also dealing with bibliographic collections, and has ordered and catalogued the archive of the poet Giovanni Giudici. In the two-year period 2019-2020 she collaborated as a researcher with the "Elvira Badaracco Foundation. Studies and documentation of women" (coordinator Prof.ssa Marina Zancan).
From 2004 to 2018 she worked for years as a tutor and integrative didactics, first as a collaborator of the Chair of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Milan (Prof.ssa Giovanna Rosa), then as owner of Interpretation and text analysis laboratories. For seven academic years she was a contract lecturer at the University of Milan: co-owner and holder of the courses of Literature and Culture in Contemporary Italy and Italian Culture for Foreigners at the CdL Mediazione linguistica e culturale; holder of the course of Contemporary Italian Literature at the Faculty of Humanistic Studies. In the latter role, between 2014 and 2020 she was speaker of more than sixty three-year and master's theses. She has held professional writing and Italian literature workshops at the University of Milan Bicocca. At the University of Milan she took part in projects of teaching Italian literature of the twentieth century (coordinator Prof. Bruno Falcetto). Since 2019 he has been contract lecturer in the course Laboratory of Storytelling and argumentative writing at IULM.
She has participated as organizer and speaker at numerous conferences in Italy and abroad. She is the author of two monographs; she has signed two curates and more than thirty articles on authors, authors, genres and problems of 20th century Italian literary modernity and contemporaneity. She has long collaborated in the "Tirature" yearbook, founded and directed by Vittorio Spinazzola; she is part of the Editorial Board of "Enthymema. Rivista open access di studi letterari" (Prof.ssa Stefania Sini).
In 2013 she was the winner of the competition for the teaching of literary subjects in lower and upper secondary school. In 2018 she obtained the national scientific qualification for the second category in the s.c. 10/F2 Contemporary Italian Literature, with unanimity of the members of the commission.
As a freelance professional, she has collaborated with the publishing houses Bompiani, Garzanti, Zanichelli, Mondadori and Feltrinelli with editorial, editorial reading and editing assignments; she has held refresher courses on 20th century literature for secondary school teachers; she carries out cultural divulgation activities for private companies.

MAIN AREAS OF SCIENTIFIC INTEREST

1.Writing, reading and publishing circulation of 20th century and contemporary writers, also in a transnational perspective (Sibilla Aleramo, Paola Masino, Alba de Cèspedes, Elsa Morante, Natalia Ginzburg, Giovanna Zangrandi, Clara Sereni, Margaret Mazzantini, Elena Ferrante)

2. Professional activity and poetic production of Vittorio Sereni, Giovanni Giudici, Elio Pagliarani and Franco Fortini in Milan during the Sixties

3. Para- and extra-literary morphologies (comics, soap opera, TV series), transmediality.

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COURSES 2021/2022

Bachelor of Science in Corporate Communication and Public Relations

- Professional writing workshop (group 3)

COURSES 2020/2021

Bachelor of Science in Corporate Communication and Public Relations

- Professional writing workshop (group 3)

Bachelor of Science in Public Relations and Business Communication

- Storytelling and argumentative writing workshop