Luigi Contadini is Associate Professor of Spanish Literature (L-LIN/05), Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures Modern (since 2014). Previously Researcher (Ricercatore Confermato) of Spanish Literature (L-LIN/05) in the same Department (since 2004).
He obtained the National Scientific Habilitation (ASN) in 2020 as a full professor.
He teaches Spanish Literature and History of Spanish Culture, focusing in particular on modern and contemporary times. His research develops around three main areas: phenomenological representations of the experience in contemporary Spanish fiction; trauma, memory and postmemory: writings, rewritings and images of the Civil War and Francoism; Spanish 18th century literature: memoirs, epic poetry, utopian fiction and theatre. In recent years, with the WeTell group, he has deepened the field of storytelling and innovative didactics.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Post-doctorate: Research Grant (Assegno di Ricerca), from 1/11/2001 to 31/10/2003, at the Department of Anglo-American and Iberoamerican Studies of the University of Venice.
- PhD in Iberian Studies at the University of Bologna, 7/3/2000 (duration: 4 years). Specialization in Spanish Language and Literature.
- Degree in Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures (Spanish Language and Literature), University of Urbino on 9/12/1992.
SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES
It is part of the following centres, associations, groups, research projects:
- Research group "WeTell - Storytelling and Civic Awareness " which deals with various issues related to contemporary literature and culture (Bando AlmaIdea UNIBO 2017).
- Summer School "WeTell - Innovating Storytelling to Adress Civic Awareness in the Post-digital Age", (in collaboration with the University of Valencia, co-sponsored by the Utrecht Network).
- WeTell Hub", UNIBO Structures Call for Proposals. International Hub (Italy, Canada, Brazil) for the design, development and dissemination of good practices and innovative didactic paths aimed at the acquisition of new transversal competences, with particular reference to the themes of inclusion, diversity, mobility and change.
- Centre for Studies on the Spanish 18th Century at the University of Bologna.
- Spanish Society for 18th Century Studies.
- CLOPEx, Centre for the Study of Homeoglotte Literatures from Extra-European Countries.
- Italian Hispanic Association (AISPI).
- Formal collaboration with the association "All stolen children are also my children" (Madrid) which deals with the crimes of Francoism, especially the phenomenon of child theft.
- Compalit, Association for the Study of Theory and Comparative History of Literature.
FUNDED PROJECTS
- "CILE 18" project, International Consortium for Spanish Literature of the 18th Century, for the creation of an international consortium of studies on the Spanish 18th century among several partner universities in order to promote research and teaching activities based on the theme: "Literary reading and interpretation: towards a European theory in the Enlightenment".
- “WeTell: Storytelling and Civic Awarenwess" project (winner of the Alma Idea Senior competitive tender, University of Bologna).
- “WeTell - International Summer School” project. A Utrecht Network Intensive Course. Innovating Storytelling to Address Civic Awareness. Promoted by the University of Bologna and the University of Valencia.
- “WeTell Hub" internationalisation project (winner of the Alma Strutture 2018 competitive tender, University of Bologna).
EDITORIAL COMMITTEES OF MAGAZINES AND PUBLISHING SERIES
- Scientific Committee of the CELES, Centro de Estudios de la Cultura Hispánica de Entre Siglos (siglos XVII-XVIII), Université de Poitiers
- Scientific Committee of the series Unpublished and Rare Texts (publisher Panozzo, Rimini), which aims to edit little known or unpublished 18th century Spanish texts in modern editions.
- Editorial Board of the Journal QUADERNI DI SEMANTICA, an international journal of theoretical and applied semantics.
- Editorial Board of the Journal PHILOLOGY, an International Journal on the Evolution of Languages, Cultures, and Texts.
- International Scientific Committee of the Herencias Series - Writings of Memory and Identity, publisher Nova Delphi (Rome).
ACTIVITIES IN PHDS:
- Member of the teaching board of the Doctorate in Iberistics, University of Bologna (2007-2009), cycles 23 and 24.
- Member of the faculty of the DESE Doctorate, Doctorate of European Higher Studies: The Literatures of United Europe, University of Bologna (2016-2017), cycle 32.
- He is currently a member of the Teaching Board of the Doctorate in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures of the Department of Languages (LILEC), University of Bologna (since 2017), cycles 33, 34, 35, 36.
INSTITUTIONAL POSITIONS
Active charges:
- President of the Traineeships Commission of the Department of Languages, since 2016.
- Delegate for the Department of Languages of the Erasmus+ Mobility for Traineeships project (ex Erasmus Placement), since 2009.
- Delegate for Curricular Traineeships for Bachelor's Degree in Foreign Languages and Literatures, since 2015.
- Coordinator of Erasmus study exchanges with the Universities of Jaén and Valladolid, since 2004.
- Quality Assurance Commission of the Department of Languages of Bologna, since 2014.
- Scholarship Commission for thesis abroad, since 2019.
Previous activities:
- He was elected to the Council of the Department of Languages for two consecutive terms, from 2008 to 2014.
- Coordinator of Erasmus study exchanges with Barcelona, Lleida, Granada, Almería, Valencia, Bilbao (UPV), Bilbao (Deusto), from 2004 to 2008.
- Erasmus Study Exchange Coordinator with Salamanca, Madrid, Valladolid at the University of Urbino, from 2002 to 2008.
- Informatics Commission of the Department of Languages (from 2004 to 2010).
- Commission for Spaces of the Department of Languages (from 2010 to 2014).
PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC CONFERENCES AS A SPEAKER
He recently participated as a speaker at the following conferences and events:
- Frontiere, soglie, interazioni, XXVI AISPI conference (Trento, October 2010), with a speech entitled “Voci dal carcere in Dulce Chacón e Marcos Ana”.
- Conference entitled "Raccontare Millás", at the State University of Milan, on invitation, as part of a series of meetings with students on contemporary Spanish literature (24/4/2012).
- Hacia 1812. Desde el Siglo Ilustrado (Cádiz, October 2012), with a speech entitled “Estado y Utopía en el Antenor de Montengón”.
- Conference at the meeting organized by IDEAR, Departmental Meetings on Experiences and Research Activities (University of Bologna), entitled: "L’eredità della Transizione. Corpi e fantasmi nella Spagna contemporanea" (20/3/2013).
- Le ragioni del tradurre. Teorie e prassi traduttive tra Italia e mondo iberico, XXVII AISPI conference (Forlì, May 2012), with a speech entitled “La traduzione dell'Antenor di Pedro Montengón effettuata dal fratello José”.
- Visiones de lo fantástico en la cultura española contemporánea (Barcelona, November 2012), with a speech entitled “Experiencias fantásticas en Juan José Millás”.
- Identità, identificazione, diversità nella letteratura spagnola degli ultimi venti anni (Naples, 28-30/11/2012), with an speech entitled “Il vuoto e l'abbandono nel romanzo Mujeres que dicen adiós con la mano di Diego Doncel”.
- La Autoficción Hispánica en el Siglo XXI, Jornadas Internacionales sobre Narrativa Actual (Alcalá de Henares, October 2013), with a speech entitled: “Revelación y desconocimiento en El mundo di Juan José Millás”.
- Le forme del narrare: nel tempo e tra i generi, XXVIII Convegno AISPI (Pisa, November 2013), with a speech entitled: “Le suggestioni del microrrelato”.
- Laicità e confessionalità in Europa: il caso della Spagna contemporanea (Università l'Orientale di Napoli, November 2014), with a speech entitled: “Gli effetti del Concordato: il furto dei bambini e gli archivi degli istituti religiosi”.
- L'immaginario politico: impegno, resistenza, ideologia (Compalit, University of Bologna, December 2014), with a speech entitled: “Esperienza giudiziale e letteratura: la testimonianza e il diritto alla verità”.
- España y el continente americano en el siglo XVIII, VI Congreso Internacional de la Sociedad Española de Estudios del Siglo XVIII (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, October 2016), with a speech entitled: “Pedro Montengón y la visión de la conquista de América en el contexto del debate dieciochista sobre la leyenda negra”.
- Alla ricerca della felicità: prospettive ermeneutiche e antropologiche (Università l'Orientale di Napoli, December 2016), with a speech entitled: “Tra felicità e dolore: Si a los tres años no he vuelto di Ana Ramírez Cañil.
- l mito del nemico. I volti mutevoli dell'Altro e la costruzione delle identità europee (University of Bologna, June 2017), with a speech entitled: “L’inferiorità del nemico nella guerra civile spagnola”.
- Hispanismo y didáctica universitaria: cuestiones y perspectivas, on invitation (AISPI Round Table, University of Rome III, 24 May 2018), with a speech entitled: “Some reflections on the teaching of Spanish Cultural History”.
- Mujer, cultura y pensamiento: metodología para la inclusión de la perspectiva de género en la investigación, educación y comunicación sobre memoria histórica y derechos humanos. V Congreso internacional (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 6-7 June 2019), on invitation, with a speech entitled: “Educando en memoria histórica y derechos humanos con enfoque de género”.
- Homenaje Italiano a Emilia Pardo Bazán en su centenario (Università di Bologna, 26 novembre 2021), with a speech entitled: Cuerpos, gestos y teorías en Un viaje de novios de Emilia Pardo Bazán.
ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS and ACCADEMIC CONVENTIONS
Conferences "Spain plural":
- Organizer and moderator of the international conference " Spain plural I", University of Bologna, March 2012. This event is the start of a series of conferences that aim to propose a reflection on the linguistic, artistic and historical aspects of the peculiar plurality and diversity that define the cultural field of contemporary Spain, especially from the Transition to the present day.
- Organizer and moderator of the international conference " Spain Plural II: Contacts and conflicts between languages and cultures", University of Bologna, October 2014.
- Organizer and moderator of the international conference " Spain Plural III: Plurality, diversity and gender visibility", University of Bologna, March 2016.
- Participation in the organizing committee of the conference "Spain Plural IV, Intercultural Dialogues: the translation in plural Spain", University of Bologna, March 2018.
Other conferences and academic events:
- Coordinator, organizer and moderator of the meetings with the writer Eduardo Mendoza (11/4/2013).
- Coordinator, organizer and moderator of the meetings with Enrique J. Vila Torres (Valencia), writer, lawyer and direct witness of the phenomenon of robo de niños in Francoist Spain. This event marks the start of a series of meetings with direct witnesses of traumatic events with the aim of starting a reflection on how trauma is narrated, how memory and postmemory is transmitted, and the social and cultural role of the witness (9/5/2014).
- Coordinator, organizer and moderator of the meeting with Andrea Speranzoni, writer and lawyer, who has published several essays on his experience as a lawyer in trials of crimes of injured humanity. This event follows a series of meetings with witnesses of traumatic events with the aim of proposing a reflection on how to narrate the trauma, how to transmit memory and postmemory, and the social and cultural role of the witness (29/4/2016).
- Participation in the Organizing Committee of the 1st International Conference CILE 18 (Consorcio Internacional de Literatura Española del Siglo XVIII): “La ciencia literaria europea en tiempos de Juan Andrés (1740-1817)”, Universidad de Salamanca 2017 (29/11-1/12/2017).
- Coordination and organisation, with the group, WeTell, at the International Summer School on the theme of responsibility: "WeTell. A Utrecht Network Summer School. Innovating Storytelling to Address Civic Awareness in the Post-digital Age, 2018 Edition: Responsibility", 4-15 June 2018 - University of Bologna. (The Summer School scheduled for June 2020 has been postponed due to a health emergency.)
- Coordinator, organizer and moderator of the meeting with Soledad Luque Delgado, direct witness of the phenomenon of child theft, writer of essays and articles. This event follows a series of meetings with witnesses of traumatic events with the aim of proposing a reflection on how to narrate the trauma, how to transmit memory and postmemory, and the social and cultural role of the witness. The meeting inaugurates the conference cycle Storytelling and Civic Awareness Series of the WeTell group (8/3/2019).
- Organization and participation in the scientific committee and participation as moderator in the international conference "Dissent. In/with (con) science", 11-12 April 2019, University of Bologna (WeTell group).
- Coordinator, organizer and moderator of the meeting with Leonardo Barcelò, direct witness of the Chilean coup d'état. This event follows a series of meetings with direct witnesses of traumatic events with the aim of developing a reflection on how to narrate the trauma, how to transmit memory and postmemory, and the social and cultural role of the witness. The meeting is part of the conference cycle Storytelling and Civic Awareness Series of the WeTell group (28/11/2019).
PRE-ROLE SHOWING ACTIVITIES (contracts, substitutes, teaching assignment in Italy and abroad):
-University of Venice: teaching contracts for official Spanish Literature courses in the academic years 2001/2002 and 2002/2003 on literary themes of the Spanish 18th century.
-University of Genoa: teaching contract for official courses of Spanish Literature in the academic year 2003/2004, on literary subjects concerning the 18th and 19th centuries.
-University of Urbino: teaching contracts and (since 2004) substitutes for official courses of Spanish Literature in the academic years: 2002/2003, 2003/2004, 2004/2005, 2005/2006, 2006/2007, 2007/2008, on literary subjects concerning: García Lorca's poetry; the 19th century novel; The myth of Don Giovanni; The novel after the First World War; The theatre of the 18th century; Cervantes and Don Quixote; Baroque theatre; The contemporary novel.
-University of Bologna: teaching contracts for official courses of Spanish Literature in the academic years 2000/2001, 2001/2002, 2002/2003, 2004/2005, on the following themes: aspects of the Spanish literary culture of the 20th century; contemporary literature: poetry, theatre, novel; history and literature during the Civil War and the post-war period; the contemporary novel.
-Teaching assignment: from 2004 to 2014, teaching assignment at the Faculty of Languages of the University of Bologna (later the School of Languages and Literature, Translation and Interpretation) for official courses of Spanish Literature in the Bachelor's and Master's Degrees on the following themes: literature of the Middle Ages; the literature of the Siglo de Oro; the Enlightenment and literature of the 18th century; the literature of Romanticism and Modernism; the novel of the end of the 19th century; the 20th century (in particular: the poetry of the early 20th century, the post-war novel); contemporary literature.
-In foreign Universities: contract professor at the Department of Hispanic Studies of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the József Attila University of Szeged (Hungary), academic years 1993/94, 1994/95, 1995/96 and 1997/98 with official courses in Spanish Language and Literature on the following themes: the Siglo de Oro (poetry, prose, theatre); literature and philosophical currents of the 18th century; Valle Inclán and its era; picaresque literature.
- Italian Language Reader at the Juhász Gyula Teaching Institute University in Szeged (Hungary), Degree Course in Foreign Languages and Literature, Department of Italian Studies, academic years 1993/94, 1994/95 and 1995/96. Official courses of a linguistic and cultural nature were held in frontal lessons mainly on the grammar of the Italian language; and also: history of the Italian language; overview of Italian dialects; the language of journalism, radio and television; linguistic and hermeneutical analysis of contemporary Italian literary texts.
OTHER TITLES AND ACTIVITIES
Supervision of PhD thesis (Universities of Bologna, Salamanca, Naples l'Orientale, Valencia).
Commissions for the evaluation of doctoral degrees (Universities of Cagliari and Bologna).
Research grants evaluator (University of Calabria and State University of Milan).
Numerous Third Mission activities: book presentations, meetings in libraries and bookshops, lectures and conferences in high schools.
Coordinator of the Homage to Federico García Lorca, Mazzacorati Theatre of 1763, Bologna (20/3/2015).
Evaluator of articles and essays (also in peer review mode) for miscellaneous publications, monographs, conference proceedings and reviews: Rassegna Iberistica; Tintas - Quaderni di Letterature Iberiche e Iberoamericane; Confluenze - Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani, Linguae & - Rivista di Lingue e Culture Moderne; Pasavento - Rivista de Estudios Hispánicos; Brumal- Rivista de investigación sobre lo fantástico; Rilune - Revue des littératures européennes; conference proceedings: "Mundo Hispánico: Cultura, Arte y Sociedad" Universidad de León; etc.
