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Maria Grazia Lolla

   

EDUCATION: Laurea from the University of Milan (Italy); M. Phil.and PhD from the University of Cambridge (UK)
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Antiquarianism and archaeology; textual bibliography and the material context of
the transmission of ideas; the relationship between literature and society; apocalypse; the changing definition and status of work and boredom in the West.
RESEARCH PROJECTS: Dr Lolla is finishing an essay “Footnotes of Genius” on the impact of
antiquarianism on 18th- and 19th-century scholarship and aesthetics as well as researching the project “Rivers Unknown to Song” on antiquarian and archaeological explorations in transnational contexts.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

“Monuments and Texts”: Antiquarianism and the Beauty of Antiquity,” in Art History, 25 (2002), special issue, Tracing Architecture: The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism, edited by Dana Arnold and Stephen Bending, pp. 431-449.

“Ceci n’est pas un monument: Vetusta Monumenta and Antiquarian Aesthetics,” in Producing the Past: Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1650-1850, edited by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz, preface by Stephen Bann (London, Ashgate, 1999), pp. 15-34.

“Truth Sacrifising to the Muses”, in Thomas Chatterton and Romantic Culture, edited by Nick Groom (London, Macmillan,1999), pp. 151-171.


Courses offered 2008-2009:
  • Italian 171. Cultural History and Nation-Making: 1870-1920 (spring)
  • Romance Studies 143. Texts, Materially Speaking: An Introduction to the History of the Book (spring)

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    Last updated on July 9, 2008