Women’s space
As part of a joint online seminar project between the Representative Office of St Petersburg University in Italy and the University for Foreigners in Siena, Professor Daniela Brogi will deliver an online lecture.
In her lecture, Daniela Brogi will comment on the statement on the cover of her latest book (Lo spazio delle donne, 2022): ‘For a long time, women have been made to feel incompetent and devoid of talent, and their work has not received the recognition it deserves. To cover such a closed topic, it will not be enough to name only names, nor to simply try to erase the past. Rather, other words and a new attitude are essential.’
Lecturer
Daniela Brogi is Professor in the Department of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University for Foreigners in Siena. She has written several monographs, including: Un romanzo per gli occhi. Manzoni, Caravaggio e la fabbrica del realismo, 2018; Altri Orizzonti. Interventi sul cinema contemporaneo, 2015; and Giovani. Vita e scrittura tra fascismo e dopoguerra, 2012. In 2018, she was on the jury of the literary experts of The Premio Campiello, an annual Italian literary prize. She has written essays, articles and commentaries on Giovanni Verga, Sibilla Aleramo, Federigo Tozzi, Italo Svevo, Luigi Pirandello, Romano Bilenchi, Cesare Pavese, Carlo Cassola, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italo Calvino, John Dos Passos, Cain, Resistance literature, Munro, neorealist cinema, Antonietta De Lillo, Igiaba Scego, Paolo Sorrentino, and Jhumpa Lahiri. She has also been involved in multiculturalism and women’s writing for many years.