Curriculum vitae
1. Academic career
November 30th 2016 - today:
Researcher (under Article 24, paragraph 3, letter B, L. 240/2010), full-time, S.S.D. L-FIL-LET / 11 "Contemporary Italian Literature", with reference to the Department of Humanistic, Social and Cultural Business Disciplines (DUSIC) of the University of Parma.
November 26, 2014:
National Scientific Abilitation in Italian Contemporary Literature.
31 December 2013 - 29 November 2016:
Researcher (Article 24, paragraph 3, letter A, Law 240/2010), full-time, S.S.D. L-FIL-LET / 11 "Contemporary Italian Literature", with reference to the Department of Humanities, Arts, History and Society (LAS) of the University of Parma.
1 October 2012 - 30 December 2013:
Research grant holder at the Department of Literary, Philological and Linguistic Studies of the University of Milan.
1st April 2010 - 31st August 2012:
Research grant holder at the Department of Modern Philology of the University of Milan.
1 November 2005 - 30 November 2008:
Post-doctoral scholarship.
May 27, 2005:
PHD in "The text: tradition, language and interpretation" (XVII cycle), at the University of Parma:
2. Reserch projects:
April 2017 - April 2018:
The medial space. Narrative genres concerning literature and publishing - Bando Fil-incentive fee 2016.
June 2016 - June 2017:
Coordination (together with Simone Giorgino) of the project: Memo Mapping (Mapping of the literary and editorial archives of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries): http://www.modlet.it/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Memo -Archives-definitivo.pdf
June 2016 - today:
Coordinator of the MEMO Group: http://www.modlet.it/gruppo_memo/
2016:
Participation in the Italian-German research program The book and the libraries in the years of the economic boom: scenarios of development, continuity and change in Germany and Italy (1949-1965), with the scientific coordination of Klaus Kempf and Alberto Petrucciani.
April 2010 - December 2013:
Two-year research project (with a two-year renewal) on the theme: Intellectual and literary models in the Milanese culture publishing from the end of the Second World War to the economic boom, under the scientific direction of prof. Alberto Cadioli.
November 2005 - November 2008
Three-year research project on the theme: popular literature and Catholic publishing in the second half of the nineteenth century, under the direction of Edoardo Barbieri, Alberto Cadioli, Giuseppe Frasso, Claudio Griggio and Gian Paolo Marchi.
2008-2009:
Participation in the research on the theme "Italian classics in the world. The work of Alba de Céspedes: translations, dissemination, reception in the international context of the twentieth century", coordinated by prof.ssa Marina Zancan, at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
2005-2006-2007:
Participation in the research on the theme "Italian classics in European twentieth century literature, History of texts, publishing fortune, historiographical tradition", coordinated by prof.ssa Marina Zancan, at the University of Rome "La Sapienza".
3. Responsabilities/outreach
May 2018 - today:
Scientific Committee of Domani, Diabasis, Parma.
September 2015-today:
Direction of Fuori di testo, Unicopli, Milan.
4. Selected publications:
• Isotta Piazza, Lo spazio mediale. Generi narrativi tra creatività letteraria e progettazione editoriale: il caso Verga,Firenze, Cesati, 2018.
• Isotta Piazza, L’ultimo Rebora e il suo editore, Milano, Unicopli, 2013.
• Isotta Piazza, “Buoni libri per tutti”. L’editoria cattolica e l’evoluzione dei generi letterari nel secondo Ottocento, Milano, Unicopli, 2009.
• Isotta Piazza, I personaggi lettori nell’opera di Italo Calvino, Milano, Unicopli, 2009.
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