Degrees:
Post-doc ILLE - Institut de recherche en Langues et Littératures européennes, 2006-07.
PhD in European Literatures, University of Bologna , 2006.
Thesis: Le merveilleux dans la prose surréaliste européenne ( Surrealist Marvelous: View into European Literature ) Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere, Università di Siena, 2002. Thesis: Robert Desnos e l'alchimia delle forme. Sperimentazione e libertà espressiva nel primo Novecento (Robert Desnos and the alchemy of forms. Experimentation and freedom of expression at the beginning of XXth century)
Research interests: European Avant-gardes (especially
Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism),
Robert Desnos, René Crevel,
semiotic analysis of literature and
image, puns.
Research and professional
accomplishments:
Tania Collani was research fellow at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island, USA), Department of Comparative Literature in 2005 and attended activities at the Centre de Recherche sur le Surréalisme (Paris III–La Sorbonne Nouvelle ) invited by prof. Henri Béhar in 2004. In 2001-2002 she was lector of Italian language for French Ministry of Education in Paris. She published the Italian editions of René Crevel's novel Babylone (Bologna, Clueb, 2007) and Robert Desnos's novel La Liberté ou l'amour! (in press). She has published several articles on avant-gardes in French, English and Italian: «Dada en Italie ou l'enfant mutilé du futurisme», Dada, Circuit total , edited by Henri Béhar and Catherine Dufour, Paris, L'Âge d'Homme, 2005; «Robert Desnos and the Cerebral Pleasure of Art», in ABCjournal , Lucian Blaga University Press, vol. VIII, June 2007 ; « Camera con vista: la biblioteca surrealista dell' Ebdòmero di Giorgio De Chirico», Neofilologia; «Crevel's Babylone: a paradigm of Babel ?», in Translation: from Imitatio to Literary Influence, sous la direction d'Andrés Perez Simon, Transverse, n° 7, Spring 2007.
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