Maria-Novella Mercuri
I read English, Anglo-American and German Literature at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Florence, Italy and am a summa-cum-laude graduate in Modern Languages. I subsequently obtained an MA in Philosophy (Dept. of Philosophy, UCL), an MA in Renaissance Studies (School of English, Birkbeck) and a PhD in German Studies and Comparative Literature (Dept. of German, UCL). I have been working at UCL for more than twenty years and am a Lecturer (Teaching) in Anglo-American and Comparative Literature and European Cultural Studies at the School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS), Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
I teach and convene the following modules:
• LITC0043 Hamlet from Page to Screen
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/hamlet-from-page-to-screen-LITC0043
• CMII0161 New Woman Literature in Britain and America, 1793-1920
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/new-woman-literature-in-britain-and-america-1793-1920-CMII0161
• Artemisia in Fiction and Fact
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/search-courses/artemisia-fiction-and-fact
• ISSU0074 The Birth of Feminism: UCL, Bloomsbury and Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism'
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/the-birth-of-feminism-ucl-bloomsbury-and-fin-de-sicle-radicalism-ISSU0074
I also contribute to the teaching of the following modules:
• ELCS0032 Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe
• ELCS0003 Understanding History: Facts, Interpretations, Narratives
• LITC0011 Imitation, Invention, Authorship
• ITAL0021 Final Year Italian Language
Other modules I taught at UCL:
Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies:
• ELCS6030 Hamlet’s Afterlives (convenor)
• ECSL6004 Context and Comparison in Post-War Literature - seminar on art fiction (Anatomies of Desire)
• Short course ‘Muse, Mentor, Maker: Simonetta Vespucci, Barbara of Brandenburg and Artemisia Gentileschi
European Cultural Studies
• ELCS6044 Representations of Adultery (convenor)
• ELCS0040 Post-1945 European Literature’ – seminar on crime fiction
• ELCS0045 Of, On and In London
• ELCS6058 Narrating Female Virtue
Women's Writing
• ELCS6040 The Rise of the New Woman (convenor)
• CMII0078 MA in Comparative Literary Studies - New Woman Literature Seminar
MA Comparative Literature dissertation supervision
• Marriage and Single-Motherhood in Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray and Grant Allen’s The Woman Who Did
• The Female Experience in Weimar Berlin: Irmgard Keun's The Artificial Silk Girl and Alfred Doeblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Sexuality, Marriage and Motherhood in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
• The Cinderella Archetype in Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City
• Men Constructing Men: Male Characters in George Gissing’s The Odd Women and HG Wells’s Ann Veronica
• Female Friendship in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady
• Freedom in Fashion: The Influence of the Rational Dress Reform and the Aesthetic Movement on New Woman Literature
• Unsaid things in a Narratological Perspective in Heinrich von Kleist’s Die Marquise von O. and Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest
• To What Extent is Fritz Lang’s Metropolis a Reflection of Weimar Germany?
• Women’s Mental Health in 19th Century English Literature: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins
• Shaped Womanhood and Awakening Female Consciousness under Patriarchy in Marilyn French's The Women's Room and Cho Nam-Joo's Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
• The Mirror and the Lamp in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
• Female Sexuality and Subjectivity in Short-Stories by George Egerton and Kate Chopin
• Selfhood and Otherness in W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil and Eileen Chang’s The Rouge in the North
• Alienation in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D’Urbervilles and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
• The Rise of the New Woman: From Henrik Ibsen to Ding Lin
• Feminist and Anti-Feminist elements in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
I teach and convene the following modules:
• LITC0043 Hamlet from Page to Screen
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/hamlet-from-page-to-screen-LITC0043
• CMII0161 New Woman Literature in Britain and America, 1793-1920
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/new-woman-literature-in-britain-and-america-1793-1920-CMII0161
• Artemisia in Fiction and Fact
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/short-courses/search-courses/artemisia-fiction-and-fact
• ISSU0074 The Birth of Feminism: UCL, Bloomsbury and Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism'
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/modules/the-birth-of-feminism-ucl-bloomsbury-and-fin-de-sicle-radicalism-ISSU0074
I also contribute to the teaching of the following modules:
• ELCS0032 Nationalism and Ethnicity in Contemporary Europe
• ELCS0003 Understanding History: Facts, Interpretations, Narratives
• LITC0011 Imitation, Invention, Authorship
• ITAL0021 Final Year Italian Language
Other modules I taught at UCL:
Shakespeare and Early Modern Studies:
• ELCS6030 Hamlet’s Afterlives (convenor)
• ECSL6004 Context and Comparison in Post-War Literature - seminar on art fiction (Anatomies of Desire)
• Short course ‘Muse, Mentor, Maker: Simonetta Vespucci, Barbara of Brandenburg and Artemisia Gentileschi
European Cultural Studies
• ELCS6044 Representations of Adultery (convenor)
• ELCS0040 Post-1945 European Literature’ – seminar on crime fiction
• ELCS0045 Of, On and In London
• ELCS6058 Narrating Female Virtue
Women's Writing
• ELCS6040 The Rise of the New Woman (convenor)
• CMII0078 MA in Comparative Literary Studies - New Woman Literature Seminar
MA Comparative Literature dissertation supervision
• Marriage and Single-Motherhood in Amelia Opie’s Adeline Mowbray and Grant Allen’s The Woman Who Did
• The Female Experience in Weimar Berlin: Irmgard Keun's The Artificial Silk Girl and Alfred Doeblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz
• Sexuality, Marriage and Motherhood in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and Kate Chopin’s The Awakening
• The Cinderella Archetype in Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Eileen Chang’s Love in a Fallen City
• Men Constructing Men: Male Characters in George Gissing’s The Odd Women and HG Wells’s Ann Veronica
• Female Friendship in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth and Henry James’s The Portrait of a Lady
• Freedom in Fashion: The Influence of the Rational Dress Reform and the Aesthetic Movement on New Woman Literature
• Unsaid things in a Narratological Perspective in Heinrich von Kleist’s Die Marquise von O. and Theodor Fontane’s Effi Briest
• To What Extent is Fritz Lang’s Metropolis a Reflection of Weimar Germany?
• Women’s Mental Health in 19th Century English Literature: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins
• Shaped Womanhood and Awakening Female Consciousness under Patriarchy in Marilyn French's The Women's Room and Cho Nam-Joo's Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
• The Mirror and the Lamp in Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country and Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie
• Female Sexuality and Subjectivity in Short-Stories by George Egerton and Kate Chopin
• Selfhood and Otherness in W. Somerset Maugham’s The Painted Veil and Eileen Chang’s The Rouge in the North
• Alienation in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D’Urbervilles and George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss
• The Rise of the New Woman: From Henrik Ibsen to Ding Lin
• Feminist and Anti-Feminist elements in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca
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giallo has now for several decades enjoyed a steady growth in output, readers’interest and also scholarly attention, the scholarly discussion has so far overlooked the particular significance of Florence as an increasing popular setting for this genre.
giallo has now for several decades enjoyed a steady growth in output, readers’interest and also scholarly attention, the scholarly discussion has so far overlooked the particular significance of Florence as an increasing popular setting for this genre.