Yvonne Bezrucka PhD (RHBNC)

Yvonne Bezrucka PhD (RHBNC) Associate Professor of English Literature Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Università di Verona http://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=879&lang=en Internationalization Delegate and Chairperson of the Erasmus Commission http://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=organo&id=430 Coordinator of the Doctoral School of Anglofonia Since 1993 she has been working at Verona University, at first as Assistant to the Chair of English Literature, Prof. Maria Teresa Bindella (Cultore della Materia), and from 1998 to the year 2000 as a post-doctoral fellow. In the year 2000 she won the national competition for Full Tenure Track as Assistant Professor (Concorso per Ricercatrice). In January 2005 she won the National Competition for Associate Professor (Concorso per Professore Associato) and was appointed to Verona University. CURRICULUM VITAE Born in Radenthein (Austria), 1 daughter: Theodora. Languages: Italian, German, and English at native speaker level, French fluent, understands Dutch and speaks it a little. 15.01.2014 - to date: Coordinator of the Doctoral School of Anglofonia 2012 - to date Expert and Evaluator at the European Commission in Brussels 2013-2005 Associate Professor of English Literature, Chairperson of the Erasmus Commission 1

and Internationalization Delegate (2012 to date and 2009-2011) of the Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere at Università di Verona (Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Verona University). 2011 Meets all the requirements for qualification for the Habilitation to Full Professorship (ASN: Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale per Professore Ordinario) according to the Italian Government s new competition rules (results have not appeared yet). 2009 Representative of the Associate Professors in the English Department 2005 Wins the Competition for Associate Professor and is appointed by Verona University. 2005-2000 Assistant Professor at the University of Verona, Full Tenure Track (Ricercatrice). 2000 Wins the Competion for Assistant Professor at the University of Verona. 2000 Attains first place in the Competition for the Secondary School Teacher Qualification. 1999-1998 Teaches Didactics of Foreign Languages at the University of Trento (Rovereto TN) 1993 Ph.D. in English Literature from Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Egham, University of London, RHBNC http://www.rhul.ac.uk/home.aspx 1995-1988: Works as teacher of English Language and Literature and German Language and Literature in various secondary Institutions (Lycées) in Trento, Italy. 1988 B.A. degree in Foreign Languages at IULM, University of Milan, Feltre (VC) Academic Expertise and Research Areas Her main research areas are in the field Modernism, Postmodernism and Victorian Studies with a particular emphasis on Aesthetics and Literature (strategies of literary representation and aesthetic legitimisation: beauty, enframing, mimesis, reality effects); Visual Culture and Visual Rhetoric (painting, sculpture, architecture, garden landscape, cinema, photography and design); Aesthetics and cultural regionalisms (revisions of the classical ideas of beauty); Charles Darwin s Legacies in Literature; Body Politics and Policies, Identity Politics and Policies (human rights, body aesthetics, self-fashioning aesthetics, ethnicity, sex and gender, social class and age discriminations); Material Culture, Cultural Studies, Interrelation of Bodies and Technology; Law and Literature, Bioethics and Literature, Eco-criticism. Cultural Studies are a constant area of reference for her research. Since 2000 she has always been a Member and a Tutor of the various Doctoral Schools of the Foreign Languages Faculty and she has been the supervisor of various Doctoral Students. She has many years of teaching experience in the 18 th, 19 th, 20 th Centuries. She has also taught Didactics for two years at the University of Trento (Italy) and has held various courses in Creative Writing. Forthcoming FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS - Synopsis of English Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2014. - Nature as oikos and kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in Romantic Studies, in Nuovi Quaderni del CRIER, Fiorini, Verona 2014 Books (3) - Yvonne Bezrucka, Oggetti e collezioni nella letteratura inglese dell Ottocento, A.r.e.s., Trento 2004, ISBN 9788897760016 2

- Yvonne Bezrucka, Genio ed immaginazione nel Settecento inglese, Università degli Studi di Verona, Valdonega, Arbizzano 2002; download from my webpage under GENIO: http://www.dlls.univr.it/?ent=persona&id=879&lang=en ISBN 8885033687 - Ph.D.: Yvonne M. Bezrucka, Virginia Woolf's Artists: the Influence on her Work of the Aesthetics of Roger Fry and Clive Bell, RHBNC, unpublished, London 1993 Edited Books (4) YVONNE BEZRUCKA has edited a series of books championing a dynamic and 'critical' aesthetic regionalism against a 'universal' idea of beauty both in art and in literature - Yvonne Bezrucka (a cura di), Regionalismo e antiregionalismo, LUOGHI/Edizioni, Trento 1999; - Yvonne Bezrucka (a cura di), Forme e caratteri del regionalismo. Mitteleuropa ed oltre, LUOGHI/Edizioni, Trento 1999; - Yvonne Bezrucka (a cura di), Le identità regionali e l'europa, LUOGHI/Edizioni, Trento 1997; - Yvonne Bezrucka (a cura di), Tra passato e futuro. Assaggi di teoria dell'architettura, Autem, Trento 1995. Articles (24) Class A Impact-factor International Publications - "L invenzione del paesaggio nordico tra Sette e Ottocento", in W. Busch, A. Larcati, (a c. di), Nuovi Quaderni del CRIER, Il paesaggio romantico, VIII- 2011, Fiorini, Verona 2012, pp. 41-67. - BioEthics Avant la Lettre: Nineteenth-Century Instances in Post-Darwinian Literature, in D. Carpi, a c. di, Bioethics and Biolaw Through Literature, De Gruyter, Berlin, 2011, pp. 188-202. http://www.degruyter.com/viewbooktoc/product/174225. CL. A+ - Performing Arts/Performance Art, in Consumer Culture Encyclopedia, Sage Publication, New York and London, 2011, vol. 3, pp. 1079-1081. CL. A+ http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/book235518 - Forme del potere in Measure for Measure. Corpo pubblico/corpo privato: autorità/libertà e desiderio, Pòlemos, 2/2010, a c. di, Pier Giuseppe Monateri - Alessandro Somma, Daniela Carpi, Editore, G. Giappichelli, pp. 99-116. http://www.biblio.liuc.it/scripts/essper/ricerca.asp?tipo=scheda&codice=2218622 CL. A - Body Politics and Cultural Identity in Albert Wendt s Darwinian Tree of Cultures, in A. Riem, A. Righetti, Drops of light coalescing. Studies for Maria Teresa Bindella, Forum, Udine, 2010, pp. 143-52. D: 2454267 DOI: 10.1400/164336 http://www.torrossa.it/pages/ipplatform/itemdetails.faces CL. A - Regimi scopici e tassonomie visuali: da Virginia Woolf a Italo Calvino, in Parola e visione, a c. di C. Battisti, Ombre Corte, Verona 2010, pp. 92-104. - Culture Memory and Desire: Hannah Arendt s Politics of Art in Virginia Woolf s To the Lighthouse, Textus, XXII, 2009, pp. 323-39, http://www.torrossa.it/resources/an/2409120 CL. A - Otello e la retorica visuale del Moro di Venezia, Studi Culturali, 3/2008, il Mulino, Bologna, pp. 375-406, http://www.mulino.it/rivisteweb/scheda_articolo.php?id_articolo=28268 CL. A+ - 'The Well-Beloved': Thomas Hardy s Manifesto of Regional Aesthetics, Victorian Literature and Culture, 36.1, Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, March 2008, pp. 227-45: 3

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayissue?jid=vlc&volumeid=36&issueid=01 the article has been inserted in the selection of Hardy s critical articles for the year 2008 by The Year s Work of English Studies, Oxford UP, Oxford 2010, pp. 53-54, CL. A+ http://ywes.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/maq004v1. and is quoted in Rosemarie Morgan (President of the Thomas Hardy Society), in The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, Ashgate, 2010. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754662457 - A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens s Political Examination of Law, Legalized Violence, Authority, and Retributive Justice, in Practising Equity, Addressing Law: Equity in Law and Literature, D. Carpi ed., Winter, Heidelberg 2008, pp. 317-33. http://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-5561- 6/Carpi_Ed_Practising_Equity_Addressing_Law/ CL. A+ - Representation and Truth: Law and Equity in Robert Browning's 'The Ring and the Book', Polemos, Carocci, I/2008, pp. 21-34. http://www.ibs.it/code/9788843046416/polemos-rivista-semestrale.html CL. A -- Virginia Woolf: Life Living and Life Writing Collage, Planes Parallels, Montage and Design, in A. Righetti, a c., The Protean Forms of Life Writing. Auto/Biography in English, 1680-2000, Liguori, Napoli 2008, pp. 213-28. http://www.liguori.it/schedanew.asp?isbn=4380&vedi=indici#indice CL. A - Thomas Hardy s 'The Woodlanders': Tradition, Heritage and Identity, Textus, XX, Nation(s) and Cultural Heritage, eds. M.R. Cifarelli, J. Garnett, 2007, pp. 339-354. http://www.tilgher.it/(skx311a3wtcvs03unymyas55)/index.aspx?lang=ita&tpr=5&act= fsclst, The article is quoted in Rosemarie Morgan (President of the Thomas Hardy Society), in The Ashgate Research Companion to Thomas Hardy, Ashgate, 2010. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754662457 CL. A+ - Law vs. Equity: Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce in Charles Dickens's 'Bleak House', in The Concept of Equity. An Interdisciplinary Assessment, a c. di Daniela Carpi, Heidelberg, Winter, 2007, pp. 269-278. http://www.winter-verlag.de/en/detail/978-3-8253-5284- 4/Carpi_Daniela_Ed_The_Concept_of_Equity/ CL. A+ - Material Culture as Society Informant: Prisons in Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit, Victorianweb by G.P. Landow: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ld/bezrucka1.html, 2007 CL. A - Albert Wendt s Flying-Fox in a Freedom Tree : Contagious Infection and Regional Dissenting Bodies, in A. Righetti (a c. di), Theory And Practice Of The Short Story: Australia, New Zealand, The South Pacific, Università di Verona, Valdonega, 2006, pp. 245-263. CL. A - A tu per tu con Sia Figiel, in Leggere Donna, n. 117, luglio-agosto 2005, Tufani, pp. 27-28. - Per l Architettura, in Sergio Giovanazzi, Architettura tra passato e presente. Il recupero del Teatro Sociale di Trento, LUOGHI/Edizioni, Trento 2001. - Regionalismo e antiregionalismo: Thomas Hardy e V.S. Naipaul in Y. Bezrucka (a c. di), Regionalismo e antiregionalismo, LUOGHI/Edizioni, Trento 1999, pp. 99-116. - Prodromi inglesi di un estetica regionalista, in Yvonne Bezrucka (a c. di), Forme e caratteri del regionalismo. Mitteleuropa ed oltre, LUOGHI/Edizioni, Trento 1999, pp. 105-125. - Letteratura e canone: le ragioni dell identità culturale. Jeanette Winterson e J.M. Coetzee, in Yvonne Bezrucka (a cura di), Le identità regionali e l'europa, LUOGHI/Edizioni, Trento 1997, pp. 95-104. - Il postmodernismo: l accettazione ironica del doppio senso in Y. Bezrucka (ed.), Tra passato e futuro. Assaggi di teoria dell'architettura, Autem, Trento 1995, pp. 85-4

11. - "L'estetica di 'To the Lighthouse': la tentazione della bellezza astratta e il rifiuto delle 'strane indicazioni'", Quaderni del Dipartimento di Letterature Straniere Moderne dell'università di Genova, 7, 1994, pp. 291-315. CL. A - "Assenza, violenza, proliferazione dei sensi in 'Between the Acts' di Virginia Woolf", Quaderni del Dipartimento di Letterature Straniere Moderne dell'università di Verona, 19, 1994, pp. 97-107. CL. A Reviews (3) 2010 Luca Ciancio, Le colonne del Tempo. Il Tempio di Serapide a Pozzuoli nella storia della geologia, dell archeologia e dell arte (1750-1900), Edifir Edizioni, Firenze, 2009, 327 pp., 113 ill., 27 tav. http://www.iperstoria.it/?p=268 2008 Alessandro Serpieri, Mare scritto, Manni Editore, San Cesario di Lecce, 2007, su Iperstoria http://www.iperstoria.it/?p=130 2006 Carlo Pagetti, Oriana Palusci, The Shape of a Culture. Il dibattito sulla cultura inglese dalla Rivoluzione industriale al mondo contemporaneo, Roma, Carocci, settembre 2004,su Iperstoria: http://www.iperstoria.it/?p=65 Articles published in national Newspapers (7) Alto Adige - Critico creativo. Ruskin protagonista. 5.6.1993 - Goethe in forma. (variazione redazionale del titolo originale: Goethe e la morfologia) 23.7.1993. - Dietro l'angolo la dissoluzione. (Rielaborazione redazionale del titolo originale: La Scuola di Graz) 10.12.1993 - Incroci sloveni 22.4.1994 L Adige - Voci dagli Antipodi. Maori e australiani, che scrittori! 27.04.2004 - Bello il caffè col dibattito 13.04.2006 Convenor with Professor David Paroissien of the International Conference DICKENS AND THE VOICES OF VICTORIAN CULTURE 8-10 June 2009 University of Verona organized with Professor David Paroissien editor of the Dickens Quarterly http://profs.lingue.univr.it/dickens/index.htm http://profs.lingue.univr.it/dickens/programma.htm (The conference has been reviewed in various national newspapers) Convenor with prof. Himmet Umunç and prof. Alev Karaduman DICKENS SEMINAR ESSE 2012 5

04-08 September 2012, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey International Istanbul Conference Visiting Professor GLOBAL FACULTY ISTITUTO TECNOLOGICO DE MONTERREY, QUERETARO, MEXICO Literary Ecocriticism: Nature does not speak but takes Action 23.02-1-3.2014 Papers Presented on Invitation at Conferences * 2014 RUSSIAN CUSTOMS ACADEMY, LUBERTSKY, MOSCOW A Dialogue of European Languages and Cultures in International Economic Relations 6-7.02.2014 *2012 Nature as oikos and kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in Romantic Studies, presentato al convegno Il Romancismo oggi, Biblioteca Civica, Verona 2012. *2011 L invenzione del paesaggio nordico tra Sette e Ottocento in Inghilterra, presentato al convegno Il paesaggio romantico, CRIER, Verona 2011. *2010 Forme del potere in Measure for Measure. Corpo pubblico/corpo privato: autorità, autonomia e desiderio presentato al convegno Rappresentazioni del potere, Verona, 2010. *2009 - Bioethics, Biolaw and Literature, Università di Verona, Biblioteca Civica Verona BioEthics Avant la Lettre: Nineteenth-Century Instances in Post-Darwinian Literature - Riletture Shakespeariane (Verona Poesia, Università di Verona) Forme del potere in Measure for Measure: identità, autorità, stato - Donne e Politica (Comune di Arco, TN, Italy): Donne e politica: la lezione di Virginia Woolf *2008 - Riletture Shakespeariane (Verona Poesia, Università di Verona) Othello e la retorica visuale - Convegno esfo 2008, venue Verona (European Society for Oceanists http://cc.joensuu.fi/esfo/conferences/index.php), Putting People First, session 11, Islanders Voices, Past and Present in South Pacific Literature, Lecture on Albert Wendt. Università di Verona *2007 - Letteratura e arti visive (Università di Verona) *2006 - Theory And Practice Of The Short Story: Australia, New Zealand, The South Pacific, (Università di Verona) - Equity: A Diachronical Assessment (Università di Verona) *2005 - Law and Literature (Università di Verona) - Il regionalismo: opportunità (Trento) *2004 - South Pacific Literature and the Short Story (Università di Verona) 6

*1993 - Birbeck College, Graduate Society, London Virginia Woolf s Artists 7