Vent du large : le port en récits

Federico Corradi is associate professor of French Literature at the University of Naples L'Orientale. He has studied particularly the work of La Fontaine, to whom he has devoted a volume and several articles. As  a member of the Fabula numerica research group (Labex OBVIL/Sorbonne Universités), he has worked on the humanistic fable tradition in Italy and France. He has also worked on 17th century’s fiction, moralistics, historical writing and literary criticism. He has translated into italian works by Madame de Lafayette and Molière. As a member of Larc (Laboratoire de Recherches sur le Contemporain - University of Rome La Sapienza), he has studied the modes of historical writing and the revival of the classics in the contemporary French novel.

Michele Costagliola d’Abele is Tenured Lecturer in French literature at the Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”. After a PhD (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, co-advisor in France, Université Paris Ouest La Défense) on the relationship between Italo Calvino and the Oulipo, he received an excellence scholarship from the Swiss Confederation for a post-doc at the University of Geneva, where he was also a Lecturer.

In particular his researches focuse on contemporary French literature (Oulipo, Perec, Queneau, Garréta, Pancrazi) and on the stylistic and pragmatic analysis of the literary text (encoding of subjectivity, effects of free indirect style and its diachronic evolution since the 19th century, non-propositional effects of the subjective use of verbal tenses, e.g., historical present in Gide, narrative-subjective imperfect in Pancrazi, compound past in Camus, etc.).

He is the author of a book, L’Oulipo e Italo Calvino, published in 2014 by Peter Lang, and of several contributions published in national and international journals or books.

Sarah Pinto is a tenured lecturer in French Language and Translation at L'Orientale University, where she teaches syntax and speech analysis.  As part of her doctorate she studied the morphosemantic evolution of the terminology of photography and published a book and several papers on the subject. She mainly deals with specialty lexicons (biology, photography) and applied linguistics (meta-lessicography, scientific terminology, digital didactics) and contemporary French literature (Irène Némirovsky, Chloé Delaume). His current research interests focus on the textual genre of song lyrics, for which she proposes a linguistic-pragmatic analysis. She is a member of several reserch projects and she has been the secretary of the Prize Napoli Racconta from 2011 to 2014.

Giulia Scuro is a lecturer in French literature at the University of Naples L'Orientale. Her articles on Balzac, Maupassant and the history of sexuality in the nineteenth century have appeared in academic journals such as Acta Fabula, Between, Status Quaestionis, Altre Modernità and SigMa. In 2022 she edited and translated the essay by Jean-Martin Charcot and Valentin Magnan, Inversion du sens génital et autres perversions sexuelles (first ed. 1882), published by Pacini in Italy. She is currently a member of the research team for the 'Ports of the Mediterranean' project supported by the Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, working on the imaginary of the port in French-language literature. As part of this research she has published Il mare nella città. Sulla rappresentazione letteraria del porto da Chateaubriand a Maupassant (ETS, 2023).