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Dr Meg Greenberg

PhD (Cambridge) MA (Penn) BA (Mount Holyoke)
Lecturer
Room 716, MacCallum/Brennan A18

Phone Number: +61 2 9351 6894
fax number +61 2 9351 4757



Meg Greenberg graduated in 2008 from the University of Cambridge with a PhD in Italian Literature. Her interests include twentieth century Italian literature and cultural history, the popularization of science, oral history, and radio production. She taught Italian language at the University of Pennsylvania and Italian literature at Cambridge.

Research areas

  • Futurism
  • Science and Literature
  • Italian Radio Programming
  • Immigration

Current projects

  • A study of scientific radio programming in Italy from the end of the Second World War through to the advent of television
  • A study of the development of the Italian program of Australia’s SBS (Special Broadcasting Service)

Selected publications

Articles

  • "Educating Italy over the Airwaves" (under review).
  • "Synaesthesia and Literary Symbolism", Forum Italicum, Fall (2009).
  • Review of "Jonathan White, Italian Cultural Images (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006)" for Bookshelf, Annali d’Italianistica, 2008.
  • "The Electromagnetic 'Telegraphic Style”’, in Monica Boria and Linda Risso, eds., Laboratorio di nuova ricerca. Investigating Gender, Translation, and Culture in Italian Studies (Leicester: Troubador, 2006).

Areas of teaching and research supervision

Teaching

  • Italian Language and Literature
  • Translation

Supervision

  • Honors Thesis (July 2009 - July 2010)

Conference activity

  • Synaesthesia and Literary Symbolism, Back to the Futurists: Avant-Gardes 1909-2009, Nordic Network of Avant-Garde Studies, London, 2-4 July 2009
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