School of Modern Languages and Cultures

Dr Penny Morris

  • Senior Lecturer (Italian)

telephone: 01413305223
email: Penelope.Morris@glasgow.ac.uk


Italian Programme Director

Research interests:

I specialise in the history and literature of 20th - century Italy, with a particular interest in women, the private sphere and the emotions.  I have edited an interdisciplinary study of women in Italy in the years 1945-1960 and I have published a monograph and various articles on the writer and resistance activist Giovanna Zangrandi.  I also work on the writer Alba de Céspedes.  My current projects include a study of the role of advice columns in Italy and an investigation into feminism and affect in 1970s Italy.  I co-organised the conference 'Italy and the Emotions: Perspectives from the 18th century to the Present' (Annual Conference of the Association for the study of Modern Italy, IGRS, London, 26-27 November 2009) and I am co-editing two volumes on the history of the emotions in Italy.

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Number of items: 19.

2013

Morris, P. (2013) Feminism and emotion: love and the couple in the magazine Effe. Italian Studies, 68 (3). ISSN 0075-1634 (In Press)

Morris, P. (2013) Let's not talk about Italian sex: the reception of the Kinsey Reports in 1950s Italy. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 18 (1). ISSN 1354 571X (doi:10.1080/1354571X.2013.730271)

2012

Morris, P., Ricatti, F. and Seymour, M., (Eds.) (2012) Politica ed Emozioni Nella Storia d'Italia dal 1848 ad Oggi. Viella, Rome, Italy. ISBN 9788883346989

Morris, P. (2012) 'Cari compagni, sto male...': Emozioni e politica nelle lettere a 'Lotta continua'. In: Morris, P., Ricatti, F. and Seymour, M. (eds.) Politica ed Emozioni Nella Storia d'Italia dal 1848 ad Oggi. Viella, Rome, Italy, pp. 211-240. ISBN 9788883346989

Morris, P., Ricatti, F., and Seymour, M. (2012) Introduction: Italy and the Emotions. Modern Italy, 17 (2). ISSN 1353-2944

Morris, P., Ricatti, F., and Seymour, M. (2012) Italy and the Emotions [Volume editors]. Modern Italy, 17 (2). ISSN 1353-2944

Seymour, M., Morris, P., and Ricatti, F. (2012) La storia delle emozioni e le emozioni nella storia. In: Morris, P., Ricatti, F. and Seymour, M. (eds.) Politica ed Emozioni Nella Storia d'Italia dal 1848 ad Oggi. Viella, Rome, Italy, pp. 7-21. ISBN 9788883346989

2008

Morris, Penelope (2008) Raccontare la Resistenza al femminile? Giovanna Zangrandi, partigiana veneta. In: Eravamo fatte di stoffa buona: Donne e Resistenza in Veneto. Nuova Dimensione. ISBN 9788889100561

2007

Morris, P. (2007) A window on the private sphere: advice columns, marriage, and the evolving family in 1950s Italy. Italianist, 27 (2). pp. 304-332. ISSN 0261-4340 (doi:10.1179/026143407X234194)

2006

Morris, P. (2006) Introduction. In: Morris, P. (ed.) Women in Italy 1945-60: An Interdisciplinary Study. Palgrave, New York, pp. 1-20. ISBN 9781403970992

Morris, P. (2006) The harem exposed: Gabriella Parca's 'Le italiane si confessano'. In: Morris, P. (ed.) Women in Italy 1945-60: An Interdisciplinary Study. Palgrave, New York, pp. 109-130. ISBN 9781403970992

Morris, Penelope (2006) Women in Italy 1945-60: an Interdisciplinary Study. Series: Italian and Italian American studies (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm)) . Palgrave. ISBN 9781403970992

2004

Morris, P. (2004) From private to public: Alba de Céspedes' agony column in 1950s Italy. Modern Italy, 9 (1). 11-20 . ISSN 1353-2944 (doi:10.1080/13532940410001677467)

Morris, P., and , (2004) From private to public: Alba de Céspedes' agony column in 1950s Italy. Modern Italy, 9 (1). pp. 11-20. ISSN 1353-2944 (doi:10.1080/13532940410001677467)

2000

Morris, P., Panizza, L., and Wood, S. (2000) Co-ordination of bibliographical guide to women writers and their work. In: Panizza, L. and Wood, S. (eds.) The History of Women's Writing in Italy. Cambridge University Press, pp. 282-337. ISBN 9780521570886

Morris, Penelope (2000) Giovanna Zangrandi: una vita in romanzo. Cierre Editore. ISBN 888314094X

Morris, Penelope (2000) Madri e figlie nella narrativa di Giovanna Zangrandi. In: Romani, W. and Arslan, A. (eds.) Giovanna Zangrandi: Donna, Scrittrice, Partigiana. Series: La terra e il tempo (7). Aspasia, pp. 39-50.

1999

Morris, P. (1999) A woman's perspective: autobiography and history in Giovanna Zangrandi's resistance narratives. In: Peitsch, H., Burdett, C. and Gorrara, C. (eds.) European Memories of the Second World War. Berghahn Books, Providence, pp. 35-43. ISBN 9781571819369

1998

Morris, Penelope (1998) Giovanna Zangrandi: negotiating fascism. Italian Studies . pp. 94-121. ISSN 0075-1634

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Areas of supervision:

I have recently supervised doctorates on the historian Nuto revelli and on the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir and Alba de Cespedes.  I am currently co-supervising a PhD in Comparative Literature on the fantastic (including Anna Maria Ortese).  I welcome proposals on:

  • Women in 20th - century Italy
  • The private sphere in 20th - Century Italy
  • Fascism and the Resistance
  • Italy and the Emotions

Teaching:

  • Italian Language (all levels)
  • Level 2 literature and cinema
  • Honours Options on Women in Modern Italy and the Italian Resistance
  • Postgraduate: MLitt European Cinema, Neo-Realism and Beyond.