Dr Paolo Bartoloni

PhD (La Trobe University), BA (Florence)
Senior Lecturer
Room number 716, MacCallum/Brennan A18

telephone +61 2 9351 6894
fax number +61 2 9351 4757

PAOLO BARTOLONI graduated in contemporary Italian literature at the University of Florence in 1985. In 1997 he completed a PhD in comparative literature at La Trobe University (Melbourne). His research interests range from contemporary Italian literature and culture to comparative and cultural studies and to translation theory. He has taught and delivered lectures at many universities, including the University of Melbourne, Monash University, La Trobe University, the University of Rome, La Sapienza, the University of Udine, the University of Bari, the University of Western Ontario, the University of Umeå (Sweden), and the University of Milan (la Statale).

• Modern and contemporary literature
• Literary theory
• Critical theory
• Comparative literature
• Translation studies

• Writing a book on the cultures of exile, translation, time and writing for Purdue University Press. Planned date of publication, 2008 (http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/).
• Editing a book on literary and philosophical ambiguity for Purdue University Press. Planned date of publication, 2009/2010.
• In press: essays on:
  "Renunciation" in Agamben, Blanchot and Heidegger
  The topos of the threshold in the work of Agamben

Books

• Bartoloni, P. 2003, Interstitial Writing: Calvino, Caproni, Sereni and Svevo, Leicester: Troubador Publishing.
• Bartoloni, P, Lynch, K. and Kendal, S. (eds.) 1997, Intellectuals and Publics: Essays on Cultural Theory and Practice, Bundoora: La Trobe University.
• Bartoloni P. (ed.) 1996, Re-Claiming Diversity: Essays on Comparative Literature, Bundoora: La Trobe University.

Book Chapters

• Bartoloni P. 2005, "Literature of Indistinction: Blanchot and
  Caproni," After Blanchot: Literature, Criticism, Philosophy, Leslie
  Hill, Brian Nelson, Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.), Newark: University of
  Delaware Press, pp. 238-256.
• Bartoloni, P. 2003, "Translating from the Interstices," Translation Translation, Susan Petrilli (ed.), Amsterdam: Rodopi, pp. 465-474.
• Bartoloni, P. 2000, "The Virtuality of Translation," Globalising Australia at the End of the Second Millennium: Culture, Academia and Writing, Christopher Palmer and Iain Topliss (eds.), Melbourne: Meridian Books, pp. 77-84.

Articles

• Bartoloni P. 2007, "The Value of Suspending Values," Neohelicon (Springer), vol. 34, no. 1, June 2007, pp. 115-122.
• Bartoloni P. 2006, "Memory in Language: Walter Benjamin and Giuseppe Ungaretti," Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 16, no. 2, December 2006, pp. 116-124.
• Bartoloni P. 2006, "Face-to-Face with Tradition," International Yearbook of Aesthetics, Vrasidas Karalis (ed.), vol. 0, pp. 40-47.
• Bartoloni P. 2005, "Memory, Translation and the Urban Space,"
  Literature and Aesthetics, vol. 15, no. 2, December 2005, pp. 109-118.
• Bartoloni, P. 2005, "The Suspension of Experience and Modern
  Literature," Le Simplegadi, The University of Udine, vol. 3, no. 3,
  November 2005, http://web.uniud.it/all/simplegadi/index.html.
• Bartoloni, P. 2005, "The Open and the Suspension of Being: Agamben,
  Heller-Roazen, Smock," CLCWeb/, electronic journal in Comparative
  Studies, Purdue University Press, vol. 7, no. 3, September 2005,
  http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/.
• Bartoloni, P. 2004, "The Stanza of the Self: On Agamben’s Potentiality," Contretemps, vol. 5, December 2004, http://www.usyd.edu.au/contretemps.
• Bartoloni, P. 2004, "The Paradox of Translation via Benjamin and Agamben," CLCWeb, electronic journal in Comparative Studies, Purdue University Press, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2004.
• Bartoloni, P. 2004, “The Concept of Time in the Critical Work of Jorge-Luis Borges”, Modern Greek Studies, Modern Greek Studies, vol. 11-12, pp. 317-333.
• Bartoloni, P. 2003, “On Translating”, Southerly, vol. 63, no.1, 2003, pp. 83- 92.
• Bartoloni, P. 2003, “Erring in Poetry: The Issue of Presence in the Poetry of Giorgio Caproni”, Italian Studies in Southern Africa, Vol. 16, no.1, 2003, pp. 65- 80.
• Bartoloni, P. 2003, “Translation Studies and Agamben’s Theory of the Potential”, CLCWeb, vol. 5, no.1, March 2003, Purdue University Press, USA, http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb/.
• Bartoloni, P. 2000, “Crystallizing Life: A Comparative Study of Italo Calvino’s and Italo Svevo’s Work”, Forum Italicum, USA, vol. 34, no. 2, Fall 2000, pp. 428-443.
• Bartoloni, P. 2000, “Interstitial Narratives: Italo Calvino and Gerald Murnane”, Westerly, vol. 45, November 2000, pp. 111-124.
• Bartoloni, P. 2000, “Reconciling the Intellectuals: The Italian Case”, Heat, vol. 14, pp. 198-206.
• Bartoloni P. 1999, “Time and Memory in Svevo’s ‘Le confessioni del vegliardo’ and ‘Prefazione’”, The Italianist, UK, No. 19, pp. 106-132.
• Bartoloni P. 1999, “Triptychal Fiction: Re-negotiating Murnane’s work from The Plains to Emerald Blue”, Southerly, vol. 59, no. 1, pp. 40-52.

Other

• Translation into Italian of Robert Dessaix's Night Letters (Lettere di notte, Rome: Fazi Editore, 1998).

• Relation between Italian fiction and cinema
• Intellectual and philosophical debates in contemporary Italy
• Italian Futurism
• Absence and presence in Western literature
• Translation Studies
• Love and emotions in contemporary Italy

• Organiser of the session "Territories of Modern Literature: Indistinction and Suspension", American Comparative Literature Association, Pennsylvania State University, March 2005.
• Invited speaker to the conference "Community and Identity", University of Western Ontario, May 2005.
• Paper "The Art of Renunciation: Heidegger, Blanchot and Agamben", Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living, Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics, Sydney, December 2005.
• Organiser of the session "The Open: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold", American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton University, March 2006.
• Invited speaker to the conference "Literary Value", Umeå University, Sweden, June 2006.

• Member of Editorial Boards: CLCWeb (Purdue University Press); Le Simplegadi (University of Udine); Monash Romance Studies (Monash University).
• Elected member to the Literary Theory Committee of the International Comparative Literature Association.
• Member of the Executive of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics.
• Member of the International Association for Philosophy and Literature.