Dr Elisa Segnini
- Senior Lecturer (Italian)
telephone:
01413305338
email:
Elisa.Segnini@glasgow.ac.uk
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2048-3623Biography
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.
Grants
- 2025: HORIZON-MSCA Doctoral Network (Co-I), Euros 464,984.16, ‘Decadence for Doctoral studies’ (DECADOCS)
- 2024: IDEF (PI) £1,340
- 2024: AHRC Impact Generation Fund (PI), £5,112.5, ‘Mask across anatomy, anthropology, theatre and the visual arts: an interdisciplinary unit, Phase 2’
- 2023: AHRC Impact Generation Fund (PI), £4,025.00, ‘Mask across anatomy, anthropology, theatre and the visual arts: an interdisciplinary unit’
- 2023: GKEF (PI), University of Glasgow, £2,000
- 2018: International Partnership Development Funding (PI), £3,210, University of Glasgow.
- 2015: Connection Grant (Co-I), CAD $20,130, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Regional Identities on the Global Stage
- 2015: Knowledge Mobilization Grant (PI) CAD $2,000, University of British Columbia
- 2015: Humanities and Social Sciences Workshop & Visiting Speaker Grant (PI), CAD $2,000, University of British Columbia
- 2015: Faculty of Arts Grant (PI) $3,500. Faculty of Arts, University of British Columbia
- 2014: Insight Development Grant (PI) $53,000, Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, ‘Translating for the stage’
- 2012: Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences (PI) $16,700. Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)
- 2009: George C. Metcalf Research Grant, $3,000, University of Toronto
Teaching
- Literary translation
- Literary Multilingualism
- Self Translation
- Transnational Constructions of Gender
- Narratives of Migration
- Literature and Collections
- Constructed Languages and Global Communication
- Emotions and Italian Culture
- Intercultural Communication
