Una panchina rossa in memoria di Giulia Tramontano. Le voci de L’Orientale contro la violenza di genere

C. Maria Laudando; Maddalena Carfora

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-366-0

Una panchina rossa in memoria di Giulia Tramontano. Le voci de L’Orientale contro la violenza di genere

Authors

C. Maria Laudando

University of Naples - L'Orientale

Maddalena Carfora

University of Naples - L'Orientale

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-366-0

Synopsis

Publisher: UniorPress

Series: Argos. Studies in Argumentation, Pragmatics and Stylistics

Pages: 422

Language: Italian

Abstract: The idea of installing a red bench in the courtyard of Palazzo Santa Maria Porta Coeli, home to the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples L’Orientale, arose in December 2023, in response to the urgency of joining the national campaign following the discovery of Giulia Cecchettin’s murder. The bench became the symbol of active citizenship against all forms of gender-based violence and discrimination, promoted as part of the Department’s Research Project, Critical Interactions and Transitions (2022–2024), and inspired the launch of the Call for Ideas dedicated to the memory of Giulia Tramontano, a former student of the University, brutally murdered by her partner in May 2023.

The selection of essays collected here offers concrete evidence of the interdisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue that emerged in response to the Call among the various voices of the academic community involved: the teaching staff, post-doc researchers, PhD students and undergraduates.

The volume – organised into three areas of critical inquiry: Discursive Practices, Multimedia Screens, Literary Plots – aims to stimulate further scholarly reflection on the urgent need to refine and update our tools for narrating and interpreting reality, in order to help counter the widespread entrenchment and escalation – not only at a national but also at a global level – of manipulative and abusive forms of gender-based violence.

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Author Biographies

C. Maria Laudando, University of Naples - L'Orientale

Maria Laudando (PhD, Victoria University of Manchester) is a full professor of English Literature at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her research interests encompass eighteenth-century studies (including a monograph on Laurence Sterne’s intertextual strategies and the translation and editing of Hogarth’s treatise on beauty), Shakespeare, literary theory and criticism from a performative and mediological perspective (to which she has dedicated the editing of several monographic issues and collective volumes), the monstrous, literary translation, women’s writing (with a monograph on the ‘acts’ of writing and reading in Virginia Woolf), and postcolonial and gender studies.

Her recent work includes several essays on William Kentridge’s intermedial work inspired by William Hogarth and Laurence Sterne, and on Anita Desai’s trilogy of novellas, The Artist of Disappearance, in an eco-critical and transnational key, alongside a posthuman reinterpretation of the Swiftian Tale.

Maddalena Carfora, University of Naples - L'Orientale

Maddalena Carfora is a post-doc researcher in English Literature at the University of Naples L’Orientale. Her research interests include cross-media narrative experimentation, multimodal literature and digital culture, posthumanism, ecocriticism and metamodernism. She is the author of the monograph Ai margini dell’oggetto-libro. Sperimentazioni intermediali in lingua inglese (Mimesis 2025).