Associate Professor Diana Glenn

Associate Professor of Italian, Deputy Head of the School of Humanities and Coordinator of the Italian Section,
Flinders University, Adelaide

Qualifications:

BA (Adel), BA Hons (Flind), MA (Flind), PhD (UWA), Dip Ed (Adel), NAATI Level 3 Translator's Certificate (Italian to English)

Postal Address:

Department of Languages (Italian Section),
Flinders University,
GPO Box 2100,
Adelaide,
SA 5001
South Australia

Telephone:

(08) 8201 2047 or 8201 2124 (in Australia)
61 8 8201 2047 (outside Australia)

Fax:

(08) 8201 2784 (in Australia)
+61 8 8201 2784 (outside Australia)

E-Mail:

diana.glenn@flinders.edu.au

Awards in 2007:

Recipient of a Carrick Institute Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning (with E. Bouvet, M. L. Long & M. Tsianikas from the Department of Languages): "For sustained excellence and leadership in the development of a diverse and innovative research-based curriculum in language pedagogy and cultural studies". Awarded a $10,000 prize on behalf of the Department of Languages.

Governor's Leadership Foundation Program 2008:

Participant in the GLF 2008, Leaders Institute of SA.

Areas of Expertise:

Eighteenth century literary historiography and textual exegesis in Dante studies; the role and significance of women in Dante's Commedia; Italian Australian literature; modern Italian narrative.

Indicative Publications:

Monograph:

Dante's Reforming Mission and Women in the Comedy, Leicester (U.K.), Troubador (Italian Series), 2008, Pp. 266  ISBN 978-1906510-237

Co-edited volumes:

Flinders Dante Conferences 2002 & 2004, eds M. Baker, F. Coassin & D. Glenn, Adelaide, SA, Lythrum Press, 2005.

Dante Colloquia in Australia (1982-1999), eds M. Baker & D. Glenn, Adelaide, SA, Australian Humanities Press, 2000.

Refereed papers:

[in press] "Lollies in the Streets: Life narratives of a group of first generation women of Italian (Campanian) origin residing in Adelaide, SA", Journeying and Journalling, eds G. Bastin & K. Douglas, Adelaide, SA, Lythrum Press, 2008.

(with M. Costanzo) "'Ti voglio raccontare': Narrazioni orali di un flusso migratorio dalla Campania (Italia) ad Adelaide (Sud Australia) nel secondo dopoguerra" / "'Ti voglio raccontare': Oral narratives of a migration stream from Campania (Italy) to Adelaide after the Second World War", La diaspora italiana dopo la Seconda Guerra Mondiale / The Italian Diaspora after the Second World War, eds J. Hagan & G. Rando, Italy, International AM Edizioni, 2007, pp. 29-38 & 251-262.

‘“Unrecorded Lives’: Oral Narratives of a Group of First-Generation Campanian Women Residing in Adelaide, South Australia”, FULGOR, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (Dec. 2006), 1-10.

"The Envious Eye: Echoes of Inferno XIII in Purgatorio XIII (The Figures of Pier della Vigna and Sapia)" in Flinders Dante Conferences 2002 & 2004, eds Margaret Baker, Flavia Coassin & Diana Glenn, Adelaide, Lythrum Press, 2005, pp. 65-76.

"Francesca, Pia & Piccarda: Le tre malmaritate", Spunti e ricerche, Percorsi danteschi, Vol. 19 Supplement (2005), 42-52.

"Experiential Narratives of a Group of First-Generation Italian-Australians in South Australia: Preliminary Findings" in Memories and Identities: Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Impact of Italians in South Australia, ed. Desmond O'Connor, Adelaide SA, Australian Humanities Press, 2004, pp. 119-129.

"Matelda in the Terrestrial Paradise", FULGOR, Vol. 1, Issue 1, March 2002. [http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang/fulgor/]

"Of Thieves and Salvation Victories: Purgatorio V, 133" in Dante Colloquia in Australia (1982-1999), eds Margaret Baker & Diana Glenn, Adelaide, Australian Humanities Press, 2000, pp. 66-72.

"Travelling the countries of the mind with no passport: Anna Maria Dell'oso", Convivio, Vol 6, No. 2 (October 2000), pp. 16-23.

"Women in Limbo: Arbitrary Listings or Textual Referents? Mapping the Connections in Inferno IV and Purgatorio XXII", Dante Studies, CXVII (1999), 85-115. [U.S.A]

"Ricorditi di me, che son la Pia: A Possible Source (Purg. 5. 133)", EBDSA (Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America), September 26, 1999 [online: http:www.princeton.edu/~dante/glenn.htm]

"Ricorditi di me, che son la Pia - Purgatorio V", Esperienze Letterarie, Anno XX, n. 3 (1995), 47-62. [Italy]

"Francesca Revisited", Visions and Revisions: Women in Italian Culture, ed. M. Cicioni and N. Prunster, Oxford/Providence, Berg, 1993, pp. 13-26.

"Who Needs a Passport?", Growing Up Italian in Australia: Eleven young Australian women talk about their childhood, ed. Barbara Walsh, State Library of NSW Press, 1993, pp. 114-132.

"New Vistas in Eighteenth Century Critical Methodology: The Contribution of Gian Vincenzo Gravina", Riflessi e riflessioni: Italian Reflections, The Italian Discipline, Flinders University of South Australia, 1992, pp. 71-81.

"Vico and Dante", The Shared Horizon: Melbourne Essays in Language and Literature in Memory of Colin McCormick, ed. Tom O'Neill, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1990, pp. 93-104.

"'Tra mille abissi e precipizi': The Contribution of Algarotti, Bettinelli and Gozzi to Dante's Critical Fortune in the Eighteenth Century", Spunti e ricerche, Vol. 2 (1986), 66-90.

Encyclopedia entries:

Atropos, Cleopatra, Clotho, Clymene, Gentucca, Jocasta, Lachesis, Lucrece, Mary of Jerusalem, Pasiphae, Polydorus, Prometheus, Queen Tomyris, Vitaliano in The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Lansing, New York and London, Garland Publishing, 2000.

Reviews:

Aldo S. Bernardo & Anthony L. Pellegrini, Companion to Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Comprehensive Guide for the Student and General Reader, Rev. Ed. Published under the auspices of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Harpur College, Binghamton Univ: Global Academic Publishing, 2006. 217 pp. in FULGOR, Vol. 3, Issue 1 (Dec 2006): 5-6 [http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang/fulgor]

John A. Scott, Understanding Dante (The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies), Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 2005, pp. xxxi, 446 in Parergon, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2006): 211-213.

Erri De Luca (2001), Montedidio. Milano: Feltrinelli. 142 pp. in FULGOR, Vol. 2, 1 (Nov. 2004)
[http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang/fulgor]

Niccolö  Ammaniti (2001), Io non ho paura. Torino: Einaudi. 219 pp. and English translation, I'm Not Scared (J. Hunt), Melbourne: Text Publishing, 2003. 215 pp. in FULGOR, Vol. 1, 3 (Dec. 2003) [http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/deptlang/fulgor]

Zygmunt G. Baranski, Dante e i segni: Saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante Alighieri, Napoli, Liguori, 2000, 231 pp. in Spunti e ricerche. Studies in Memory of Tom O'Neill, 17 (Melbourne 2002), 140-42.

Ignazio Baldelli, Dante e Francesca, Saggi di Lettere Italiane 53. Firenze, Olschki, 1999, 94 pp. in Annali d'italianistica, 20 (2002), 469-72. [USA]

La gloriosa donna de la mente: A commentary on the Vita Nuova, ed. Vincent Moleta, Florence-Perth: Leo S. Olschki, Department of Italian, University of Western Australia, 1994, 305pp. in AUMLA, No. 88 (November 1997), 125-126.

Dacia Maraini, Un clandestino a bordo, Milano, Rizzoli, 1996, 95 pp. Forum Italicum (Journal of Italian Studies published by the Center for Italian Studies SUNY at Stony Brook, NY), Vol. 31, No. 2 (Fall 1997), 579-582.

Word and Drama in Dante: Essays on the Divina Commedia, ed. J. C. Barnes & J. Petrie, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1993, 208 pp. in Spunti e ricerche, Vol. 9 (1993), 104-107.