a seminar by Alice Loda and Valentina Gosetti
In this seminar we will speak about poetry on stage, and provide an overview on La Compagnia delle Poete, a collective project by translingual women poets based in Italy and having the Italian language has a common poetic trajectory. La Compagnia delle Poete, which was founded by the franco-Italian poet and scholar Mia Lecomte in 2008, has authored several plays which are based on multilingual poetry practices and intermingling of genres and perspectives: theatre and poetry, written and oral word, individual and collective voice. This project, which holds a strong focus on the creative opportunities within the contexts of migration, mobility and translingualsim, is known world-wide for its originality and unicity. During this seminar we will explore the project and the poetic activity of its members, look at some original videos and read a selection of texts. In the second part of the seminar, the audience will be invited to contribute to a collectives and multilingual translation of one text, which will be then sent to the Compagnia.
Alice Loda is Lecturer in Italian Studies at the University of Technology Sydney. Her studies seat at the intersection between cultural studies, migration studies, literary theory and poetics. Her current research projects engage with transcultural poetry in contemporary Italy, with a focus on form and environment. Her research interest include Rhetoric and Stylistics, Contemporary Poetry, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, Environmental Humanities. Her research has been published on academic journals including Bollettino d’italianistica, Italian Poetry Review, Italian Culture.
Valentina Gosetti is Senior Lecturer and Convenor of French at the University of New England. She is the author of Aloysius Bertrand’s ‘Gaspard de la Nuit’: Beyond the Prose Poem (2016) and has edited and translated, with Adriano Marchetti and Andrea Bedeschi, the bilingual anthology Donne: Poeti di Francia e oltre dal Romanticismo ad oggi (2017). Her articles on nineteenth-century poetry, provincialism, autoexoticist practices appear in PMLA, L’Esprit créateur (with Daniel Finch-Race), The Australian Journal of French Studies, French Studies Bulletin, Romantisme (with Antonio Viselli), Revue Bertrand (with E.J. Kent, Classiques Garnier), La Giroflée, and Dix-Neuf. She is the creator of Transferre, a blog on poetry translation for the promotion of minority languages and has been a contributing writer for various international magazines and newspapers (Sole24Ore, Atlante – Treccani, Overland, Nuovi Argomenti).
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