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Contact data |
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science and Communication
via Mazzini 5, 21100 Varese
Tel: ++39.332.8935
Fax: ++39.332.8919
E-mail: gianmarco.gaspari@uninsubria.it |
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Biography |
Born in 1955. Graduate
at the University of Pavia in 1979. Studying stages in Strasbourg
(F) and Cambridge (UK). Scholarship in 1981-83 in Geneva (CH): researches
on literary culture in France, Switzerland and Italy in XVIII century.
From 1983 to 1985, “maître-assistant” at Lausanne
University (CH): courses of History of Italian Language and Italian
Literature. From 1996 to 1991, researches at the Accademia della Crusca
in Florence. Since 1996, Director of Centro Nazionale Studi Manzoniani,
Milano; since 2001, Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the
University of Insubria, Varese |
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Qualifications and awards |
International Award “Nuova
Antologia” for philology researches, 1996. Member of scientific
committees of many Art and Literature expositions. Member of the International
Society of Eighteenth Century Studies. Director of the scientific
periodical “Annali manzoniani”. |
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Research interests |
Italian Literature of XVI
cent. (Ariosto) and between XVIII and XX cent.: Beccaria, Verri, Manzoni,
Gadda. Literature tradition and rhetoric. History of Italian language
from XVIII to XX century. |
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Teaching experience
and appointments |
Associate Professor since
November 2001.
Teaching experience:
“Expression and composition in Italian
as standard language” (First principles of applied inguistics.
Outline of stylistic; stylistic variations. Communicative competence:
typology of texts. Logical and emotive factors in meaning. Principles
of rhetoric), “Italian Literature” and “Literary
Criticism”. Member of University, Department and Graduation
course commissions. Member of a graduation commission at Sorbonne
University, Paris (Dec. 2003). Member of Academic Senate of the University
of Insubria from Feb. to Oct. 2005. |
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Representative
publications |
Journey to Paris and London
(1766-1767). Correspondence of Pietro and Alessandro Verri (IT), Milan,
Adelphi, 1980; From Encyclopedism to the «Encyclopédie».
The Italian Case (E), in The Encyclopédie and the Age of Revolution,
ed. C. Donato and R. M. Maniquis, Boston (Mass.), G. K. Hall &
Co., 1992; Invention Labyrinth: the first canto of «Orlando
Furioso» (IT), in Testi nella storia. Atti del convegno nazionale
di studi e aggiornamento sulla letteratura italiana, B. Mondadori
- Università degli studi di Pavia, 1993; Language and Revolution
(IT), «Rivista storica italiana», CVII, 1995; Learnig
how to read in TV age (IT), in La scuola italiana tra delusione e
utopia, ed. D. Generali, Padova, Sapere, 1996; Where the Right goes:
Law and Literature between XVIII and XIX century (IT), in Con felice
esattezza. Economia e diritto fra lingua e letteratura, ed. I. Domenighetti,
Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1998; Goethe translates Manzoni (IT), in «Premio
“Città di Monselice” per la traduzione letteraria
e scientifica», ed. G. Peron, XVII, 2003; «Poesia»
1905-2005. Creation and history of an international review (IT), in
1905-2005. L’estetica della velocità. «Poesia»
e universo futuribile, ed. C. Gatti, F. Tedeschi, F. Ferri, Varese,
Insubria University Press, 2005. |
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