Queen Mary, University of London

Department Member, School of Languages, Linguistics and Film

Other Affiliations: London Metropolitan University, HALE

Visiting Research Fellow

Queen Mary College, University of London

About

I am developing a research project on voice in relation to contemporary poetic language. The voice of a poet who reads aloud his own composition re-projects and restructures constituting aspects of poetic language as the ‘enjambment’ and ‘caesura’. The physical voice has always been tied to poetry where it often acts as a fracture between syntax and prosody making evident the variations between the published and the vocal version. By studying poet’s physical voice, the research aims to investigate what a particular tone (e.g. a monotonous one) or inflection, accent or prosody could indicate or suggest in the listener’s text understanding. In fact, through the vocal execution the text is re-evoked always in a different way within a specific time and space as well as re-given a new relationship with the subject who is listening and understanding it. The frame of the study is the contemporary philosophical discourse on (poetic) language as experienced by Giorgio Agamben and other philosophers like Jean-Luc Nancy – e.g. especially regarding the "listening-subject" and  what “listening” means – and Adriana Cavarero.

My area of expertise mainly focuses on 20th century Spain. At present I am completing a book on the poetics of Vicente Aleixandre’s Diálogos del Conocimiento.

I am also running a project called "dopotutto" about Italian dispatriate poetry in UK: for more info visit: http://dopotuttonet.wordpress.com/

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