Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae
Marco De Marinis (1949) is a full Theatre Professor at the Music
and Performing Arts Department in the Literature and Philosophy
Faculty at the University of Bologna (course DAMS). He lectures in
the History of the Theatre as part of the three-year undergraduate
programme at DAMS-Theatre; and in the Semiotics of the Theatre and
the Theory and Culture of the Performance as part of the
post-graduate, specialisation programme in Theatre Studies. His
main field of research involves: the theory of the theatre; the
methodological and epistemic notions implied in the study of the
theatre; the twentieth-century theatrical experience, in particular
with regard to leading directors, to corporal mime and to the post
Second World War so-called ‘New Theatre'; staging and theatrical
iconography. From the 1st November 2001 to the 31st October 2004,
he was Head of the Music and Performing Arts Department. He
currently holds the position as Head of the Centro di Promozione
Teatrale La Soffitta and he is the PhD co-ordinator in Theatre and
Film Studies at the Music and Performing Arts Department.
More important books:
Teatro e comunicazione, Firenze, Guaraldi, 1977 (
con Gianfranco Bettetini );
Mimo e mimi. Parole e immagini per un genere teatrale
del Novecento, Firenze, La Casa Usher, 1980;
Semiotica del teatro. L'analisi testuale dello
spettacolo, Milano, Bompiani, 1982 ( 1992, 2° ed.; trad. ingl.:
The Semiotics of Performance, Bloomington, Indiana
University Press, 1993 );
Al limite del teatro. Utopie, progetti e aporie nella
ricerca teatrale degli anni Sessanta e Settanta,
Firenze, La Casa Usher, 1983;
Il nuovo teatro 1947 1970, Milano, Bompiani,
1987 ( 1995, 3°ed.; trad.spagn.: El nuevo teatro,
Barcelona Buenos Aires, Paidòs, 1988 );
Capire il teatro. Lineamenti di una nuova
teatrologia, Firenze, La Casa Usher, 1988 (nuova ed.: Roma,
Bulzoni, 2008.; trad.spagn.: Comprender el teatro, Buenos
Aires, Galerna, 1997; trad. catalana: Entendre el Teatre,
Barcelona, Institut del Teatre, 1998);
Mimo e teatro nel Novecento, Firenze, La Casa
Usher, 1993;
(a cura di ), Drammaturgia dell'attore,
“Università del Teatro Eurasiano III”, Bologna, I Quaderni del
Battello Ebbro, 1997.
- La danza alla rovescia di Artaud. Il Secondo Teatro della
Crudeltà ( 1945-1948), Bologna, I Quaderni del Battello Ebbro,
1999 (nuova ed: Roma, Bulzoni, 2006).
- In cerca dell'attore. Un bilancio del Novecento
teatrale, Roma, Bulzoni, 2000.
- Visioni della scena. Teatro e scrittura, Bari-Roma,
Laterza, 2004.
- En busca del actor y del espectador. Comprender el
teatro II, Buenos Aires, Galerna, 2005.
He is on the editorial board of the Journal Versus Quaderni
di studi semiotici, edited by Umberto Eco for the publishing
house Bompiani. He part of the academic advisory board of
L'Annuaire théâtral (Montreal, Canada) and Teatro
XXI, edited by Osvaldo Pellettieri (Universidad de Buenos
Aries). He is a permanent member of the academic équipe at ISTA,
the International School of Theatre Anthropology, run by Eugenio
Barba, based in Holsterbro (Denmark). He edits the series of
studies and researches on the theatre at various publishing houses
and in particular for Bulzoni in Rome.