Dr Elisa Segnini

Senior Lecturer (Italian)

telephone: 01413305338
email: Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623

Biography

I hold an MA in Comparative Literature from the University of Bologna and a PhD from Toronto’s Centre for Comparative Literature. Before joining the University of Glasgow in 2017, I have held appoints in Italian and Comparative Literature at Dalhousie, Western and the University of British Columbia. My research projects have been funded by SSHRC, AHRC and HORIZON-MSCA. I sit on the executive board of the British Comparative Literature Association and I am a co-editor of Comparative Critical Studies, a journal dedicated to the theory and practice of the study of comparative literature: https://www.euppublishing.com/loi/ccs. I am a co-director of the ‘Multilingualism across the disciplines’ Artlab.

Research interests

Literary multilingualism
Translation and circulation of Literary texts; Self-Translation
Literature in, and translation from/into minority languages and constructed languages
Fin-de-siècleliterature and thought (1880-1920)
Decadence and modernism as a global, transnational movement
Text and Image dialogues (relationship between literature, theatre and visual arts)
Literature, collections, imaginary museums

My research engages with current debate in Comparative Literature, with a dual focus on fin-de-siècle culture (1880-1920) and contemporary fiction. My first monograph, Fragments, Genius and Madness: Masks and Mask-Making in the fin de siècle Imagination (Legenda 2021) explores tales that revolve around masks and mask-making in relation to late-nineteenth-century thought. It demonstrates to what extent the medical, anthropological and aesthetic spheres overlapped in this period, offering insights that contribute to debates about gender and ethnicity in decadence and modernist studies. http://www.mhra.org.uk/publications/sicl-56

D’Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception (co-edited with Michael, Edinburgh University Press, 2023) explores D’Annunzio’s engagement with world literature and his experiments with self-translation and translingual writing, as well as the dialogue with his translators and the global reception of his work, from Europe to Argentina to Egypt to Japan. https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-gabriele-d-annunzio-and-world-literature.html

I’ve published on translation and literary multilingualism in nineteenth and twentieth century fiction (on authors such as Grazia Deledda, Matilde Serao, Alba de Cespedes, Elena Ferrante) as well as on translation from/into minority languages. My upcoming monograph examines Italian multilingual literature in terms of circulation and reception.

I am involved in several interdisciplinary projects, including the ‘Multilingualism across the disciplines’ Artslab, of which I am one of the co-directors, and I lead an interdisciplinary network on constructed languages.

Research groups

Modernities

Publications

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2023

Blakesley, Jacob, Mangalagiri, Adhira, Mucignat, Rosa and Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2023) How we compare: introduction. Comparative Critical Studies, 20(2-3), pp. 129-147. (doi: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0477)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2023) Comparability and translatability in the making of historical narratives: Alba de Céspedes’ comparative method. Comparative Critical Studies, 20(2-3), pp. 319-345. (doi: 10.3366/ccs.2023.0485)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2023) Ethnicity, gender, and the making of a transnational decadent canon: Georges Hérelle’s translations of Matilde Serao and Grazia Deledda. Modern Philology, 121(1), pp. 32-56. (doi: 10.1086/725401)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2023) Il Piacere as a multilingual text and its afterlife in translation. In: Segnini, Elisa and Subialka, Michael (eds.) Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 67-84. ISBN 9781399506854 (doi: 10.3366/jj.5864758.8)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 and Subialka, Michael (Eds.) (2023) Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9781399506854

2021

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2021) Fragments, Genius and Madness: Masks and Mask-Making in the fin-de-siècle Imagination. Series: Studies in Comparative Literature (56). Legenda. ISBN 9781781888544

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2021) Andrea Camilleri’s Montalbano and Elena Ferrante’s L’amica geniale: the afterlife of two ‘glocal’ series. Translator, 27(3), pp. 254-270. (doi: 10.1080/13556509.2018.1502607)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2021) Elisa Segnini speaks to Frederika Randall: tilting at the leaning tower, or translating irony in two writers from Northeast Italy. Translator, 27(3), pp. 302-312. (doi: 10.1080/13556509.2018.1500132)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 and Sulis, Gigliola (2021) Local, regional, and transnational identities in translation: the Italian case. Translator, 27(3), pp. 247-253. (doi: 10.1080/13556509.2021.2015909)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2021) From Scampia to Rione Luzzatti: marginality and its language in the age of convergence. Comparative Critical Studies, 18(1), pp. 27-51. (doi: 10.3366/ccs.2021.0385)

2017

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2017) Global masterpieces and Italian dialects: Eduardo de Filippo and Luigi Meneghello's rewritings of Shakespeare. Journal of World Literature, 2(2), pp. 236-254. (doi: 10.1163/24056480-00202007)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2017) Local flavour vs global audiences: Elena Ferrante and translatability. Italianist, 37(1), pp. 100-118. (doi: 10.1080/02614340.2016.1273649)

2016

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2016) Special issue on Orientalism within Europe: Differences, Minorities, Divisions [Guest Editor]. Journal of European Studies, 46(3-4),

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2016) Translating Sicily for the German and French stage: Modern Europe, its periphery and the archaic in the first versions of Pirandello's "Questa sera si recita a soggetto". Forum Italicum, 50(1), pp. 5-37. (doi: 10.1177/0014585816636341)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2016) A Case of Study on Translations and Reception of Pirandello’s Theatrical Works. [Website]

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2016) Encounters and blind spots: Pirandello, Evreinov and Brecht. PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 28, pp. 11-36. (doi: 10.14288/1.0306857)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2016) Sicilian honour and theatricality in Agrigento: a workshop on Questa sera si recita a soggetto. Pirandello Studies, 36, pp. 163-166.

2015

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2015) L'aldilà, il fantastico e l'allegoria nelle opere narrative e pittoriche di Dino Buzzati. In: Bancheri, S. and Guardiani, F. (eds.) Letteratura Italiana e Religione: Atti del Convegno Internazionale (Toronto, 11-13 Ottobre 2012). Cesati, pp. 293-308. ISBN 9788876675515

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2015) Review of Meneghello: Fiction, Scholarship, Passione Civile, By Daniela La Penna. Annali d’Italianistica, 33, pp. 512-513. [Book Review]

2014

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2014) "Continental Air": performing identity in "Leonora, Addio", "L' Aria del Continente" and "Questa Sera si Recita a Soggetto". PSA: Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 27, pp. 13-43. (doi: 10.14288/1.0306439)

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 and Frigerio, Vittorio (2014) Fantastic Narratives and the Natural World [Guest Editors]. Belphégor, 12(1),

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 and Jones, Elizabeth (2014) "I was back in a dark wood": Don Paterson's "The Forest of the Suicides". Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, 24(1), pp. 143-168.

2013

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2013) Catherine Brown, The Art of Comparison: How Novels and Critics Compare (Oxford: Legenda, 2011 – Legenda Series Studies in Comparative Literature, 23). 210 pp., ISBN 9781906540814, £45. Comparative Critical Studies, 10(3), pp. 403-406. (doi: 10.3366/ccs.2013.0103)[Book Review]

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2013) Reading Hoffmann: mythmaking and tropes of uncanniness in Jean Lorrain's Monsieur de Phocas. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 24(1), pp. 61-82.

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2013) A silent language: reflections on "pure" and "uncorrupted" pantomime. In: Boldt, Leslie, Federici, Corrado and Virgulti, Ernesto (eds.) Silence and the Silenced: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Series: Studies on themes and motifs in literature (119). Peter Lang: New York, pp. 185-199. ISBN 9781433123436

2012

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2012) Between life and death: on the art of mask-making. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 39(1), pp. 64-79.

2009

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2009) Between ritual and theatre in Švankmajer’s Faust. In: Ambros, Veronika, Le Huenen, Roland, D'Souza, Adil and Pérez-Simón, Andrés (eds.) Structuralism(s) Today: Paris, Prague, Tartu. Series: Literary criticism series (16). Legas: Ottawa, pp. 153-164. ISBN 9781897493069

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Articles

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 and Frigerio, Vittorio (2014) Fantastic Narratives and the Natural World [Guest Editors]. Belphégor, 12(1),

Segnini, Elisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623 (2012) Between life and death: on the art of mask-making. Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 39(1), pp. 64-79.

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