Dr Valentina Abbatelli
Teaching Fellow
Language Coordinator
Tel: +44 02476 522 131
Email: V dot Abbatelli dot 1 at warwick dot ac dot uk
Room H4.14
Humanities Building, University Road
University of Warwick
Coventry CV4 7AL
About
Dr Valentina Abbatelli graduated in Studi Italiani (2006) from the University of Rome 'La Sapienza', where she also studied for an MA in Linguistics (2008) and completed a PhD in Historical Linguistics and History of Italian Language (2012). In 2017 she completed her second PhD entitled 'Producing and Marketing Translations in Fascist Italy: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Little Women' at the University of Warwick.
Valentina has significant experience in teaching Italian language in Italy and in the UK. Prior joining Warwick she collaborated with Società Dante Alighieri (2006-2014) as a marker of the written exams of the Plida certificate in Italian language. In 2009 obtained the DITALS certificate to teach Italian to foreigners from the the University for Foreigners of Siena. During her PhD at Warwick she taught language modules at all levels and participated in outreach schools events to raise awareness in the importance of languages. From 2015 she is Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
Administrative Roles
- Language Coordinator
- First-year Exams Secretary (Italian Studies) in 2017/18 and 2018/19
- Overall Exams Secretary (Italian Studies) in 2019/20 (Term 1)
- SSLC Academic Convenor (Italian Studies) in 2018/19 and 2019/20 (Term 1)
Teaching and Research interests
Italian Language and Culture; Translation studies; History of publishing; Italian History; Fascism; History of Italian language; Visual culture; National identity; Literature for children
Publications
V. Abbatelli, Review of Ann Lawson Lucas, 'Emilio Salgari: una mitologia moderna tra letteratura, politica e società', voll. 1-2 (Florence: Olschki, 2018), The Modern Language Review, 114.3 (2019), 575-76
V. Abbatelli, Looking at captions to get the full picture. Framing illustrations in Italian editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin Image and Narrative, 19.1, pp. 46-61, 2018 (peer-reviewed)
V. Abbatelli, A. Lirosi, I. Palumbo (eds), Un monastero di famiglia. Il diario delle barberine della SS.ma Incarnazione(secc. XVII-XVIII) (Rome: Viella, 2016) (book launch)
V. Abbatelli, 'African-American Slave or Subject of the Italian Colonial Empire? The Trajectory of Uncle Tom in Italy during the Fascist Ventennio', Tropos, 3 (1) pp. 22-29, 2016.
V. Abbatelli, Review of Giorgia Alù and Nancy Pedri (eds), 'Enlightening Encounters: Photography in Italian Literature' (Toronto Italian Studies. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015), Annali d'Italianistica 34 (2016), 595-97
V. Abbatelli, '“Accadde tutto molti anni fa, in una città bella e piena di luce, nella Spagna del sud”: Baricco riscrive il Don Giovanni' in Dal manoscritto al web: canali e modalità di trasmissione dell'italiano. Tecniche, materiali e usi nella storia della lingua. Conference Proceedings of the XII International congress Silfi – University of Helsinki, 18-20 June 2012 (Franco Cesati, Firenze, 2014), pp. 221-229.
V. Abbatelli, 'Lessico e sintassi dell'italiano del teatro tra Ottocento e Novecento attraverso le traduzioni di quattro opere shakespeariane' in Las huellas del pasado en la cultura italiana contemporánea edited by Pedro L. Ladròn De Guevara, Belén Hernàndez and Zosi Zografidou (Edit.Um, Murcia, 2013) and pp. 477- 486.
V. Abbatelli, 'La semantica dell'affettività nel carteggio della famiglia Tondi di Viterbo (1860-1882)' in Nuovi sondaggi sulle lettere del CEOD, edited by G. Antonelli, M. Palermo, L. Raffaelli (Ravenna, Giorgio Pozzi, 2009), pp. 73-82.
V. Abbatelli (ed.), Lettere di Innocenza Tondi al marito e ad altri familiari (1860-1882), http://ceod.unistrasi.it
V. Abbatelli, Review of Elisabetta Mauroni, L'ordine delle parole nei romanzi italiani dell'Ottocento (Milano, LED, 2006), Studi linguistici italiani, XXXIV (2008)
V. Abbatelli, Review of Raffaella Bombi, La linguistica del contatto: tipologia di anglicismi nell'italiano contemporaneo e riflessi metalinguistici (Roma, Il Calamo, 2005), Studi linguistici italiani, XXXII (2006)
Conference, Workshop and Seminar organised
Under Control. Childhood and 20th Century Dictatorships (1917-1991) 19th May 2016, University of Warwick (co-organised with Paola Roccella)
'When Words Become Images, University of Warwick, Cadre Peer Development Exchange 2016 (11 May 2016), funded by Cadre
'Paratextual Approaches to Retranslation and Rewriting', University of Warwick, 24th January 2018 (funded by IAS, GRP Connecting Cultures and HRC)
Qualifications
- PhD in Italian Studies (University of Warwick)
- PhD in Historical Linguistics and History of Italian Language (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
- Ditals II level (Stranieri Siena)
- Ma in Linguistics (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
- Ba in Italian Studies (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
Online Office Hours 2020-21
Available via Teams by appointment
Mondays 2-3pm
Wednesdays 12-1pm
Teaching 2020-2021
IT101 Italian for beginners (group A) - module convenor
IT201 Modern Italian Language II (grammar, writing) - module convenor
IT301 Modern Italian Language III (module convenor)
IT401 Modern Italian Language IV (writing) - module convenor
IT337 Within and Beyond Books. Theory, History and Practice - module convenor
LN307 Propaganda and Persuasion in Modern Europe (module tutor)
LN311 Political Propaganda in Contemporary Europe from 1975 to the Present (module tutor)