Maria Grazia Lolla
Lecturer in Romance Languages and Literatures
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Academic Degrees:
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 in 2009-2010:
Italian 175. Picturing Place: Landscape, Literature, and Cinema from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century - (New Course) with Giuliana Minghelli [fall term]
Romance Studies 150. Reading the Reader in Italy and France: History, Theory, and Literary Practice 1800 to the Present - (New Course) [fall term]
For more information, go to the RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 29, 2009
