DR KATE WILLMAN

EMAIL: katewillman@gmail.com

About

I recently completed my PhD at the University of Warwick (awarded January 2016). My doctoral thesis, supervised by Dr Jennifer Burns with Dr Fabio Camilletti, was entitled 'New Italian Epic: History, Journalism and the 21st-Century "Novel"'. Before coming to Warwick, I completed my MA in Comparative Literature at King's College London and my BA in French and Italian at the University of Bristol.

I am currently developing a comparative project on 21st century autofiction and preparing my PhD thesis for publication. The monograph will centre on the recent phenomenon in Italian literature known as the New Italian Epic, a label coined to describe certain hybrid texts published mainly after the year 2000 in Italy that are an unusual mix of genres and media. I argue that this is an important literary movement both within and outside Italy, signalling a new stage in the development of the novel form in the twenty-first century.

Research Interests

• New Italian Epic
• 21st century literature
• Autofiction and life-writing
• Digital literature
• Creative nonfiction / nonfiction novels

For more information, see my Warwick eportfolio: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/study/csde/gsp/eportfolio/directory/pg/live/itrmab/

Teaching

At Warwick, I taught on the following modules:

• IT103 Italian for Literature Students
• IT301 Modern Language Italian II: Translation

In the academic year 2015-16, I taught at the University of Bristol on the following modules:

• ITAL10029 Modern Italy (Convenor)
• ITAL30001 Italian Language (Translation)