Enrica Leydi
About
I am a PhD student in Italian Studies at the University of Warwick, funded by Chancellor’s International Scholarship, under the supervision of Prof. Fabio CamillettiLink opens in a new window.
Research
My research explores the role of visual and material culture – particularly anatomy, maps, and landscape – in Giacomo Leopardi’s works, with a focus on their interplay with aesthetics, rhetoric, epistemology, and theories of representation. My broader interests include Dante’s influence in early 19th-century literature and the reception of puppet theatre in Carlo Collodi’s Le Avventure di Pinocchio. Overall, my research interests are characterised by a theoretical, comparative, and interdisciplinary outlook on literature, focusing on the relationships between text and image mostly in reference to 19th-century Italian culture.Peer-reviewed Articles
- L'età delle macchine: automi e simulacri anatomici in Leopardi, in 'Technique, animalité et post-humanisme chez Giacomo Leopardi', in Cahiers d’études italiennes, 2025, 40.
Selected Conference Papers
- Resurrecting Dante in Vincenzo Monti's 'I Poeti dei Primi Secoli della Lingua Italiana', at 'Dante Futures', Univeristy of Cambridge, 2024.
- "Quella lingua morta a cui non è più speranza di resurrezione". Monti, 'I poeti dei primi secoli della lingua italiana' (1824), and the "Vocabolario dei Morti", at 'Speaking with the dead. Italy and the Legacy of the Past in the Revolving Century (1750-1850)', University of Warwick, 2024.
- Comics and Classics: Giacomo Leopardi between literature and pop culture, Internation 19th-Century Studies Association, Durham University, 2024.
- Pinocchio, ovvero la commedia degli orrori, at 'SIS Biennal Conference', Royal Holloway University of London, 2024
- I fratelli di legno di Pinocchio. Per uno studio del teatro di figura dell’Italia post-unitaria, at
Pinocchio "burattino" globale, Collodi, 2024
- Dante 'con due pennellatte’ in the 1818 reflections of Foscolo and Leopardi, at 'Dante Futures', University of Leeds, 2024.
- Paesaggi dell’Antropocene nelle Operette Morali di Giacomo Leopardi, at ‘Geographies of the Present: Places and Spaces of the Anthropocene in Italy’, University College Cork, 2023.
- Leopardi’s volcanic landscape: The Broom”, at 'ASLE-UK biannual conference, Northumbria University, 2022.
- Dante appeso a un filo. Un adattamento per marionette della "Divina Commedia", at 'Congresso Dantesco Internazionale', Università di Bologna, 2021.
Book reviews
- Review of Elisa Segnini, Fragments, Genius and Madness: Masks and Mask-Making in the fin-de-siècle Imagination, in 'Italian Bookshelf', Annali d'Italianistica, 42, 2024, 701-704.
- Review of Fulvio Conti, The Ultimate Italian. Dante and a Nation’s Identity, in Italian Studies, 2023, 78:4, 534-535.
- Review of Serenella Iovino, Italo Calvino’s Animals. Anthropocene Stories (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021), in Incontri. Rivista europea di studi italiani, 2022, 37:1, 3pp.
Scholarships and Awards
- Chancellor’s International Scholarship, University of Warwick, 2023.
- Erasmus+ Scholarship, Durham University, 2021.
- Merit Scholarship for a summer school, University of Exeter, 2019.
Qualifications
MA in Italian Studies, Università di Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum", 2023.
BA in Humanities, Università di Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum", 2020.
Teaching:
IT101 GROUP B (2024/2025)
O.H.: Thursday 4-5pm.
Please email me in advance on my staff email (Enrica dot R dot Leydi at warwick dot ac dot uk). Also available to meet at other times.
