Professor Penelope Morris
- Professor of Italian Culture and Gender (Italian)
- Dean for Global Engagement (Americas) (External Relations)
telephone:
01413305223
email:
Penelope.Morris@glasgow.ac.uk
R207 Level 2, Italian, Hetherington Building, Glasgow G12 8QQ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1654-2803Research interests
Research interests:
Penelope (Penny) Morris’s research interests lie in the social and cultural history of modern Italy. focuses on the history and writing of women, on emotions and the intersection between public and private, and on the role of print media.
Recently she led an AHRC Research Network Project on the history of motherhood in Italy and its diaspora (with Perry Willson, CoI, http://lamammaitaliana.wordpress.com) and published the co-edited volume P. Morris and P. Willson (eds.) La mamma italiana: Interrogation of a National Stereotype (New York: Palgrave, 2018)
Current Projects:
- Translating Feminism:
- Developing a co-edited volume which draws on the Leverhulme International Network project Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation (1945-1991), for which she was Co-Investigator (PI Maud Bracke, University of Glasgow)
- Exploring feminist magazines as loci of translation
- Critical anthology of the writer Alba de Céspedes’ letters column in the magazine Epoca in the 1950s (due to appear with Viella)
- Book-length investigation into the role of advice columns and emotions in 20th-Century Italy
Grants
CoI (with PI Maud Bracke, University of Glasgow), Translating Feminism: Transfer, Transgression, Transformation (1945-1991), Leverhulme International Network Grant https://translatingfeminism.org/
2011-2015 PI (with CoI, Perry Willson, University of Dundee) of AHRC Network Grant: La Mamma: Interrogating a National Stereotype. http://lamammaitaliana.wordpress.com/
2013: Carnegie Research Grant
2010: Carnegie Research Grant
2005: AHRC Research Leave Scheme
2005: British Academy Small Research Grant
2001: British Academy Conference grant
Supervision
I welcome PhD and masters by research applications on any aspect of twentieth-century and contemporary Italian history, culture or society. I have particular interests in: women’s history and writing; the relationship between public and private; Italy and the emotions; translation and feminism.
Current PhD students:
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Minlin Yu Translating Women’s Language: female power and its construction in Chinese feminist translations of English literature (Jan 2019-)
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Sophie Maddison Urban Interconnections: Reconsidering Human Centrality in the Works of Émile Zola and Matilde Serao (2019-)
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Vanessa Santoro Fashioning Sensibility: Women’s Writing, Emotions and Fashion Journalism in Mid-20th Century Italy (2019-)
- Alessia Zinnari 'Mental Illness and Female Creativity in the 20th Century: A Comparative Study of Leonora Carrington and Alda Merini' (co-supervised)
Completed Research Degrees:
PhD:
- Magdalena Kampert 'Self Translation in Italian and Polish Writers' (co-supervised in 2014-2016)
- Guglielmo Perfetti 'Absolute Beginners of the “Belpaese”. Italian Youth Culture and the Communist Party in the Years of the Economic Boom' (co-supervised, 2018)
- Emily Ryder 'Victims' memories of 1970s Italian terrorism' (co-supervised, 2015)
- Francesca Aniballi ‘Towards an Anthropology of Literature: the Magic of Hybrid Fiction (co-supervised, 2013)
- Sandrine Tonini 'Gendered Journeys towards (Re)commitment in Les Mandarins and Il rimorso as Evidence of Simone de Beauvoir's Influence on Alba de Céspedes' writing (2010)
- Fiona Stewart 'L’impegno del dopo in Nuto Revelli’s writing' (2008)
MPhil:
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Vanessa Santoro Fashioning Sensibility: Women’s Writing, Emotions and Fashion Journalism in Gianna Manzini’s Fashion Writing (2019)
- Consuelo Tersol ‘Joyce Lussu: Memory, Autobiography and Rewriting’ (co-supervised, 2013)
- Alison McNaugton 'Vindicación Feminista: Translating Feminism across National and Historical Boundaries in the
Spanish Transition to Democracy' (co-supervised, 2018)
Teaching
Undergraduate Teaching:
Italian:
Language (all levels)
Level 1: the novel
Level 2: 20th-Century Italian history; Gender and Performance (in literature and cinema)
Honours Options: Women in Modern Italy; The Italian Resistance to Fascism; Love and Hate
Comparative Literature: Honours Holocaust Option (Primo Levi and Roberto Benigni)
Postgraduate Teaching:
Contributions to MSc Translation Studies, Gender and Text (MLitt Gender History)
Additional information
- Since Jan 2015, Co-Editor (with Mark Seymour, University of Otago) of Modern Italy
- From Jan 2015 to Dec 2018 I was International Lead for the College of Arts
- Member of Centre for Gender History
- Member of External Expert Group, International Doctorate La Sapienza University, Rome
