Title prefix:
Dr.
First name:
Simonetta
Family name:
Falchi
Country:
Italy
Institution:
Università degli Studi di Sassari
Department:
Facoltà di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
Title:
Dr
Short description:
Dr. SIMONETTA FALCHI currently holds a Research Fellowship funded by the Fondazione Banco di Sardegna at the Università degli Studi di Sassari (Italy) to develop her research on “Matrix Characters in English Literature on the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century”.
In 2006 she defended her doctoral thesis in Comparative Lirerature on the rewritings of the myth of the Wandering Jew in the same university, where she also graduated in 1999 defending a thesis on Heiner Müller’s rewriting of Shakepespeare’s "Hamlet" in "Hamletmaschine". Her main research interest is the literary reception of myth in the broader sense, including classical, para-biblical and literary myths.
In 2006 she defended her doctoral thesis in Comparative Lirerature on the rewritings of the myth of the Wandering Jew in the same university, where she also graduated in 1999 defending a thesis on Heiner Müller’s rewriting of Shakepespeare’s "Hamlet" in "Hamletmaschine". Her main research interest is the literary reception of myth in the broader sense, including classical, para-biblical and literary myths.
Languages:
Italian
English (C2)
German (B1)
French (A2)
Modern Greek (A1)
Research areas:
Myth, "Matrix characters" (the Wandering Jew; Hamlet; Ophelia), Thematic Criticism, Psychoanalysis and Literature.
Conferences:
² 2–5 July 2007 Folly, XI International Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK: “Maddening Endurance: Ophelia's Madness and its implications in Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine”. ² 23-26 Sep. 07 7th International Conference of the EACL: “Contemporary Fate of Great Cultural and Literary Myths”, Tartu, Estonia: “Errare humanum est. Re-writing the Myth of the Wandering Jew after the Shoah”.² 1-2 Oct. 07 Chi ha paura di Grazia Deledda? Traduzione, Ricezione, Comparazione, Sassari, Italy : “Deledda Speaks English”
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