Manuele Gragnolati

Vita

Manuele Gragnolati studied Classical philology, medieval studies and Italian literature at the Universities of Pavia (BA and MA), Paris IV Sorbonne (MA) and Columbia in NYC (PhD). Before joining the Oxford faculty in 2003, he taught Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. He investigated the relationship between identity and corporeality in Dante and medieval eschatology, focussing in particular on theories of embryology, the concept of the resurrection of the body, the notion of productive pain, and the motif of embraces. He also explored the intersections between language, textuality and subjectivity in medieval and modern authors, editing volumes on Elsa Morante, medieval performance, and Dante's plurilingualism, collaborating with Teodolinda Barolini on an edition of Dante's Rime, and publishing essays on Bonvesin da la Riva, Dante's Vita Nuova, Guido Cavalcanti, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Giovanni Pascoli, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Giacomo Leopardi, Cesare Pavese, Giorgio Pressburger. His current projects deal with notions of the apocalypse, medieval concepts of desire and contemporary appropriations of Dante.

Selected Publications

Books and Editions

Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations and Rewritings in the Twentieth- and Twenty-first Centuries, eds Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart (Berlin and Vienna: Turia & Kant, Forthcoming 2010)

Dante's Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, eds Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, Forthcoming 2010)

Aspects of the Perfomative in Medieval Culture, eds Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum (Berlin-New York: de Gruyter, 2010)

The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's 'Aracoeli', eds Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna (Oxford: Legenda, 2009)

Dante, Rime giovanili e della 'Vita Nuova', ed. by Teodolinda Barolini; with notes by Manuele Gragnolati (Milan: Rizzoli, 2009)

Il corpo glorioso. Teologie e rappresentazioni della resurrezione, eds Claudio Bernardi, Carla Bino and Manuele Gragnolati (Pisa: Giardini, 2006)

Experincing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005)

Il corpo passionato, eds Carla Bino and Manuele Gragnolati. Special Issue of Comunicazioni Sociali, 25 n.s., 2 (2003)

Essays

'Re-writing Dante after Freud and the Shoah: Giorgio Pressburger’s Nel regno oscuro', in Metamorphosing Dante: Appropriations, Manipulations and Rewritings in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, eds Manuele Gragnolati, Fabio Camilletti and Fabian Lampart (Berlin and Vienna: Turia und Kant, Forthcoming  2010)

'(In)Corporeality, Language, Performance from the Vita Nuova to the Commedia'. Forthcoming in Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, eds Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp 211-22

'Riscrivere Dante in un’altra lingua. Conversazione con Giorgio Pressburger su Nel regno oscuro'. Forthcoming in Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, eds Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp. 249-66; with Emma Bond and Laura Lepschy

'Dante after Wittgenstein: "Aspetto" Language, and Subjectivity from Convivio to Paradiso'. Forthcoming in Dante’s Plurilingualism: Authority, Knowledge, Subjectivity, eds Sara Fortuna, Manuele Gragnolati and Jürgen Trabant (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp. 223-48; with Sara Fortuna

'Trasformazioni e assenze: la performance della Vita nova e le figure di Dante e Cavalcanti'. Forthcoming in L’Alighieri 35 (2010), pp 5-23. Also in Dante the Lyrical and Ethical Poet. Dante etico e lirico, eds Zygmunt Baranski and Martin McLaughlin (Oxford: Legenda, 2010), pp. 74-91

'Authorship and Performance in Dante’s Vita nova', in Aspects of the Perfomative in Medieval Culture, eds Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum (Berlin-New York: de Gruyter, 2010), pp. 123-40

'Between Affection and Discipline: Exploring Linguistic Tensions from Dante to Aracoeli', in The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's 'Aracoeli', eds Manuele Gragnolati and Sara Fortuna (Oxford: Legenda, 2009), pp. 8-19; with Sara Fortuna.

'Allattamento e origine del linguaggio tra la Commedia dantesca e Aracoeli di Elsa Morante', in Parole di donne, ed. Francesca Maria Dovetto (Milano: Aracne, 2009), pp. 271-303; with Sara Fortuna.

'"Attaccando al suo capezzolo le mie labbra ingorde": corpo, linguaggio e soggettività da Dante ad Aracoeli di Elsa Morante', Nuova corrente, 55 (2008), pp. 85-123; with Sara Fortuna.

'Nostalgia in Heaven: Embraces, Affection and Identity in Dante’s Comedy', in Dante and the Human Body, eds John Barnes and Jennifer Petrie (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), pp. 91-111

'Gluttony and the Antrhopology of Pain in Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio', in History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person, eds Rachel Fulton and Bruce Holsinger (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007), pp. 238-50

'La Scrittura rossa, il Purgatorio e la forza del dolore: per un dialogo tra Bonvesin da la Riva e Dante', in Dialoghi con Dante. Riscritture e ricodificazioni della Commedia, eds Erminia Ardissino and Sabrina Stroppa (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2007), pp. 17-38

'La scrittura, l’amore e la morte. Per una lettura leopardiana dei Dialoghi con Leucò di Pavese', Testo, 52 (2006), pp. 59-75

'Dolore come gioia. Trasformarsi nel Purgatorio di Dante', Psiche, 4 (2003), pp. 111-26; with Christoph Holzhey.

'From Plurality to (Near) Unicity of Forms: Embryology in Purgatorio 25', in Dante for the New Millennium, eds Teodolinda Barolini and Wayne Storey (New York: Fordham University Press, 2003), pp. 192-210

'From Decay to Splendor: Body and Pain in Bonvesin da la Riva’s Book of the Three Scriptures', in Last Things: Death and Apocalypse in the Middle Ages, eds Caroline Walker Bynum and Paul Freedman (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999), pp. 83-97

'Marinetti e la lingua francese alle soglie del Futurismo: l'eclettismo ambiguo de La ville charnelle', Revue des Études Italiennes, t. XLV, 1-2 (1999), pp. 115-132

'Love, Lust and Avarice: Leodilla between Dante and Ovid', in Fortune and Romance: Boiardo in America, eds Jo Ann Cavallo and Charles Ross (Tempe, AZ: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1998), pp. 151-174.

'Giovanni Pascoli: Varianti «conviviali» (1895-1905)', Revue des Études Italiennes, t. XLI, 1-4 (1995), pp. 133-156.