Laura Colombino - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2020 Full Professor of English Literature and Culture, University of Genova
  
• 2015 Associate Professor of English Literature and Culture, University of Genova
  
• 2005Lecturer of English Literature and Culture, University of Genova

• Ph.D. in English Studies, University of Genova, 2001. Dissertation: ‘Visione/visualità e scrittura in Ford Madox Ford’ (Vision/Visuality and Writing in Ford Madox Ford). Supervisor: Prof. Sergio Rufini (University of Perugia, Affiliated with Genova Doctoral Programme).
  
• M.A. and B.A. in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne (Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures), 1997. Summa Cum Laude. Dissertation: ‘Thomas Hardy e il sublime’ (Thomas Hardy and the Sublime).
  
• Erasmus undergraduate student at the University of Reading, UK, 1993-1994.

• Member, Steering Committee, National Association of English Scholars ANDA (Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Anglistica) (2018—);
  
• Member, Core Group, Cultural Literacy in Europe Network, (June 2015-November 2016)
  
• Member, Executive Committee, Ford Madox Ford Society (2006–2010)

• ‘Landscapes of the Body: Lee Bul’s Affective Spaces’, Berliner Festspiele. Martin-Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin, 18 October 2018 (1 hr, invited lecture)
  
• ‘The Poetics of Crashing: Body, Architecture and Landscape in Lee Bul’, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, 2 June 2018 (1 hr, invited talk)
  
• ‘Body and Space in Alfred Cohen’s paintings’, Alfred Cohen: An American Émigré in Europe, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, 14 June 2018 (10 min, invited talk).

• ‘The boundaries of the city between modernity and postmodernity’, research project at the University of Genova (2014).
  
• ‘Urban conflict and the literary imagination at the turn of the millennium’, research project at the University of Genova (2013). Principal Investigator.
  
• ‘Aristocracy and the modern imagination from the early nineteenth century to the First World War’, research project at the University of Genova (2012).
  
• ‘Modernism and the Mediterranean: literature and politics’, research project at the University of Genova (2011).
  
• ‘Postmodernism at the beginning of the new millennium’, research project at the University of Genova (2008).
  
• ‘Ford Madox Ford, painting and other media’, research project at the University of Genova (2006). Principal Investigator.
  
• ‘In Transit: Nomadic Geographies of English and American Modernism’. Title of the Research Unit of the University of Genova: ‘The Politics and Poetics of Displacement: English and American Modernists in Islamic Territory’, Research Project of National Interest (PRIN) (2006).

• Departmental Representative for the VQR 2015-2019 (Italian Research Excellence Framework) (2019–);
  
• Departmental IRIS Superuser (2019–);
  
• Departmental Representative, University Quality Assurance Committee (2017—);
  
• Departmental Representative, Research Committee, Department of Modern Languages and Cultures (2015–2017);
  
• Departmental Representative for the VQR 2011-14 (Italian Research Excellence Framework) (2015);
  
• Departmental Representative for the SUA-RD 2011-2013 (2014);
  
• Member, Technical Committee for the Library of the School of Humanities (2014–2017).
  
• Member, Doctoral Collegium for PhD programme in Classical and Modern Literatures and Cultures (2013—).
  
• Member, Master’s Degree Programme in Project Management in the field of cultural tourism (2009–2010).
  
• Member, Doctoral Collegium for PhD programme in Comparative Euro-American Literatures (2005–2013).
  
• Member, Master’s Degree Programme in International Cultural Management (2005–2008).

• Research completions: Lara Paoletti (2010), Guglielmo Poli (2017)
  
• Research Degree Examinations: Guglielmo Poli (2017)
  
• 2 Ph.D. vivas chaired
  
• 1 Current Ph.D. supervision

• ESSE, European Society for the Study of English (2001—)
  
• SAR, Society for Artistic Research (2015—)
  
• The Ford Madox Ford Society (2000—)
  
• The Literary London Society (2008—2016)
  
• AIA, Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (2001—)
  
• ANDA, Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Anglistica (2015—)

• Member, Ford Madox Ford: Complete Works — Oxford University Press. General Editors: Max Saunders and Sara Haslam (November 2020—).
  
• Member, Present Perfect (Series). Editors: Jean-Michel Ganteau and Christine Reynier (October 2020).
  
• Member, Editorial Advisory Group. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (January 2019—).
  
• Commissioning Editor. Cambridge Scholars Publishing (January 2019—).
  
• Co-editor, Janus – Confronti letterari (Series). Casa editrice Dell’Orso, Alessandria (2019—).
  
• Member, International Ford Madox Ford Studies (Series). Rodopi/Brill (2013–16).

• Presses Universitaires de La Méditerranée (PULM). 2 book chapters. 2019.
  
• The Swiss National Science Foundation. 1 funding application for a four-year research project: 517.000 CHF. 2018. *Le Simplegadi. 1 journal article. 2017.
  
• Il Tolomeo. Rivista di studi postcoloniali | A Postcolonial Studies Journal | Journal d’études postcoloniales. 1 journal article. 2017.
  
• Literary Geographies. 1 journal article. 2016.
  
• Journal of Artistic Research. 1 research artwork. 2010.
  
• CEUM (Centro Edizioni Università di Macerata). 1 book. 2009.
  
• Output Assessor for the VQR (Italian Research Excellence Framework). 2004–2010.

Organization of international conferences and seminars:

• The Literary Image and the Screen. Univ. of Genoa, September 2019;
  
• ANDA Seminar 2018, Transcending the Postmodern: Portrayals of the Human in Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century Fiction, Univ. of Genova, September 2018;
  
• Representations of the British Aristocracy: 19th Century – Present. Univ. of Genova, May 2018;
  
• William Hogarth in Time: Metamorphoses and Afterlives in European Literatures and Cultures. An International Conference. Univ. of Milan, January 2018;
  
• Ford Madox Ford: Visual Arts and Media (with the support of the Ford Madox Ford Society). Univ. of Genova, 17–19 September 2007. Guest speakers: A. S. Byatt e Colm Tóibín.