Yvonne Bezrucka PhD (RHBNC)

Yvonne Bezrucka PhD (RHBNC) Associate Professor of English Literature August 2014 receives the Habilitation to Full Professorship, National ASN Prima fascia Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures Verona University 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, Chair of the Doctoral School in Anglofonia http://www.dlls.univr.it//?ent=organo&id=311 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 1

3.8.2014 Habilitation to Full Professorship by MIUR (Italian National Ministry for Research and Universities) (ASN: Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale prima fascia per Professore Ordinario) 15.01.2014 - to date: Coordinator of the Doctoral School in Anglofonia 2012 - to date Expert Evaluator at the European Commission in Brussels 2012 - to date Chairperson of the Erasmus Commission of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Verona University, her methodology and conferral criteria have been extended to all Departments at Verona University. 2011-2009 Chairperson of the Erasmus Commission of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Verona University 2012 to date Internationalization Delegate of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Verona University 2011-2009 Internationalization Delegate of the Foreign Languages and Literatures Department at Verona University 2009 Representative of the Associate Professors in the English Department Council 2005 - to date Associate Professor of English Literature 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 Ist place out of 600 in the Competition for the Habilitation to Secondary School Teachers in the Province of Trento. 1999-1998 and 1999-2000 Teaches Didactics of Foreign Languages at the University of Trento (Rovereto TN) 1998-2000 Wins a 2-year Postdoctoral Research position, at Verona University. 1993-2000 Cultore della Materia, Lingue e Letterature, Verona University. 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 1998-1988: 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) 1983-1988 CEO at GALA S.A.S, Milan, Italy. 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 at Verona University and she has been the supervisor of various Doctoral Students. From 2014 she is the Head of the Doctoral School in Anglofonia, University of Verona. 2

She has more than 20 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 (3) FULL LIST OF PUBLICATIONS - Yvonne Bezrucka, Synopsis of English Literature, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, forthcoming 2015 - Yvonne Bezrucka, Romantic or Northern Nights, in CRIER; forthcoming 2015 - Yvonne Bezrucka, Food for Dreams and an Appetite for Nations: Opium and Darwinian Biological Metaphors in some Masterpieces of Victorian Literature, forthcoming 2015 Books (3) - Yvonne Bezrucka, Oggetti e collezioni nella letteratura inglese dell Ottocento, A.r.e.s., Trento 2004, ISBN 9788897760016, free download at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/yvonne_bezrucka - Yvonne Bezrucka, Genio ed immaginazione nel Settecento inglese, Università degli Studi di Verona, Valdonega, Arbizzano 2002; download from my webpage under GENIO: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/yvonne_bezrucka 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 (25) Class A Impact-factor International Publications - Nature as Oikos and Kepos: Ecocriticism as a Branch of Bioethics in Romantic Studies, in Il Romanticismo oggi, Nuovi Quaderni del CRIER, X, 2013 Fiorini, Verona 2013, pp. 33-54. - "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. 3

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, ISBN: 978-88-15-12390-9, DOI: 10.1405/28268 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: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayissue?jid=vlc&volumeid=36&issueid=01 ISSN: 1060-1503 EISSN: 1470-1553 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1060150308080133 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. 4

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. 85-11. - "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 5

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 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 EDITORIAL MEMBERSHIPS Member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of Iperstoria, refereed webjournal of History and Literature, http://www.iperstoria.it/ since 06/2000 to date Member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of CRIER, Interdepartimental Research Centre of the connections between Italy and European Romanticism, Nuovi Quaderni del Crier, since 10/2008. Member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board with Mario Giacomarra, Guido Gili, Stefano Martelli, Marie Shevtsova, Michele Sorice, Raimondo Strassoldo, Mariselda Tessarolo, of the Series: Sociologia, Comunicazione, Performing Media, directed by Bruno Sanguanini, since 06/2006. Member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of Luoghi Edizioni, Editor of the Journal Luoghi, concerning art, architecture, literature and aesthetics, refereed journal, since 01/1994. Member of the Scientific Committee and Editorial Board of Nuovi Quaderni del CRIER, since 2010. Member of the Peer Review Board of the Journal Scienze e Ricerche, http://www.scienze- 6

ricerche.it, ISSN 2283-5873, Scienze e Ricerche, associazione culturale, CF 97826650588, sede legale: c/o Associazione Italiana del Libro, Via Giuseppe Rosso 1/a, 00136 Roma, Direttore responsabile: Giancarlo Dosi, since January 2015. MEMBER OF THESE ASSOCIATIONS Associazione Nazionale Docenti di Anglistica (ANDA) since 2000 to date http://www.docentianglistica.it Associazione Italiana di Anglistica (AIA) since 1993 to date http://www.anglisti.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33&itemid=194 Associazione Italiana Diritto e Letteratura (AIDEL) since 2008 to date http://www.aidel.it Modern Language Association of America (MLA) since 1990 to date https://www.mla.org European Society for the Study of English (ESSE) since 1998 to date http://www.essenglish.org Papers Presented on Invitation at Conferences *2014 Food for Dreams and an Appetite for Nations: Opium and Darwinian Biological Metaphors in some Masterpieces of Victorian Literature, Conference: Food and Identity in Literature and Culture, University of Verona, 8.05.2014 Sala del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale. *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 7

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 e criticità (Trento) *2004 - South Pacific Literature and the Short Story (Università di Verona) *1993 - February 1993 Invited Guest at Birbeck College, Graduate Society, London Virginia Woolf s Artists 8