RESEARCH UNIT

The Research Project “The cultures of dissent” is composed by a Research Unit hosted by the Departmento of Education, Languages, Intercultures, Literatures and Pshychology (FORLILPSI, University of Florence).

 

SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISORS

 

Coordinator

Teresa Spignoli (Associate Professor – Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature)

 

Partner

Claudia Pieralli (Tenure Tr. Associate Professor – Slavic Studies/Russian Literature) Eastern-Area and “Reception of the Soviet dissent” Section Chief

 

Research Unit Members:

  • Giuseppina Larocca, PhD in Slavic Studies – Research Fellow
  • Giovanna Lo Monaco, PhD in Italian Modern and Contemporary Literature – Research Fellow
  • Federico Iocca, PhD in Slavic Studies – Research Fellow, Lecturer, University of Florence

 

Collaborators:

  • Alessandro Achilli (Full Lectuerer Ukrainian Studies, Monash University, Australia)
  • Claudia Borrelli, o.A./Russian Literature, University of Florence. Supervisor: Claudia Pieralli
  • Maurizia Calusio, Professor of Russian Language and Literature, Catholic University of Milan
  • Cecilia D’Ambrosi M.o.A./Russian Literature, University of Florence. Supervisor: Claudia Pieralli
  • Giulia De Florio, Assistant Professor /Russian Literature, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia
  • Federico Fastelli, Assistant Professor/Literary Criticism and Comparative Literatures, University of Florence
  • Francesca Fici, Professor of Slavic Linguistics and Russian Literature, University of Florence
  • Elda Garetto, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, State University of Milan
  • Clementina Greco, PhD student in Italian Studies, University of Florence
  • Noemi Madonna, B.o.A/Modern Philology, University of Florence. Supervisor: Teresa Spignoli
  • Sara Mazzucchelli, PhD in Slavic Studies, Lecturer, Catholic University of Milan
  • Valentina Parisi, PhD in Slavic Studies, Researcher at University of Pavia
  • Alessandra Reccia, PhD in Italian Studies, State University of Siena, Adjunct researcher at Franco Fortini Interdepartimental Study Center (University of Siena).
  • Marco Sabbatini, Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Pisa
  • Ilaria Sicari, PhD in Slavic Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Lecturer/Russian Literature, University of Florence
  • Arianna Vivolo, B.o.A./Russian Literature. Supervisor: Claudia Pieralli
  • Uladzimir Volodin (Ph.D. in Historical Studies, Post-Doc Research Fellow at Istituto Universitario Europeo, IUE)

 

Collaborations with other Institutions:

 

Toronto University, Canada:

  • Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat»

Coordinator: Ann Komaromi

https://samizdatcollections.library.utoronto.ca

 

International Memorial, Moscow, Russian Federation:

  • Project “History in dissent in USSR: 1954-1987”.

Coordinator: G.V. Kuzovkin (since 2008)

http://old.memo.ru/d/60.html

  • Archive and section “History of dissent” (Archiv istorija inakomyslija)

Coordinators: B. Belenkin, A. Makarov

https://www.memo.ru/ru-ru/collections/archives/dissidents/

 

Forschungsstelle Osteuropa, (FSO), University of Bremen (Germany):

https://www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de

 

Muzej AZ Anatolij Zverev, Moscow, Russian Federation:

https://museum-az.com/

 

Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica, Università di Pisa:

http://www.fileli.unipi.it

Bachelor and Master Degree Final works:

Marisa Bacci (B.o.A./Russian Literature). Title: Čevengur: l’arte di Platonov durante la censura socialista (April 2019)

Claudia Borrelli (B.o.A./Russian Literature). Title: Anna Achmatova: Il compromesso diplomatico per lanciare i rapporti Comes-Urss negli anni ‘60 (April 2018)

Veronica Celli (B.o.A./Russian Literature): Il processo a Brodskij e la sua eco nella cultura del tempo (ottobre 2015)

Veronica Celli, (M.o.A./Russian Literature). Title: L’opera di Varlam Šalamov: dalla critica socio-politica agli studi di poetica (December 2018)

Michela Ciottoli (M.o.A./Russian Literature). Title: Il dissenso sovietico: uno studio sulla sua ricezione in Italia tramite il caso della rivista russa «Kontinent» (April 2016)

Cecilia D’Ambrosi (M.o.A./Russian Literature). Titolo tesi: La civiltà letteraria negli anni ’60-’65 in URSS attraverso le riviste «Tempo presente» e «L’Europa letteraria» (December 2017)

Carlotta Mini (M.o.A./Russian Literature): La ricezione delle repressioni sovietiche sulle pagine del Sole 24 ore (1983-2016) – Analisi critico-documentaria (July 2016)

Arianna Vivolo (B.o.A./Russian Literature): Un caso di samizdat tradotto in Italia: il libro bianco di A. Ginzburg (April 2017)

 

Bachelor and Master Degree Final works (on going):

Alice Bucelli (M.o.A./Russian Literature). Title: «Polden’» di N. Gorbanevskaja nel contesto del ’68 sovietico

Diletta Bacci (M.o.A./Russian Literature). Title: «Feniks 66». Riviste clandestine dell’URSS. Un caso di Tamizdat