{"id":2345,"date":"2014-03-19T14:19:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T14:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2345"},"modified":"2014-09-11T20:18:34","modified_gmt":"2014-09-11T20:18:34","slug":"congratulations-to-dr-wissia-fiorucci","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/19\/congratulations-to-dr-wissia-fiorucci\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Dr Wissia Fiorucci"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/italian\/index.html\">Department of Italian<\/a> is delighted to announce that Wissia Fiorucci has been awarded a PhD in Italian, under the supervision of Professor Lorenzo Chiesa, with a thesis entitled &#8216;Elements of Magic(al) Realism: Deledda, Bontempelli, Banti&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>In her thesis, Wissia demonstrates the presence of magic(al) realism\u00a0in the works of the Italian authors Grazia Deledda (1871-1936), Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960), and Anna Banti (1895-1985), within the respectively different socio-historical contexts in which these authors were writing. The thesis concentrates on elements of magic(al) realism that unveil a prevalent concern with the tension that exists between oppressive forms of power and individual freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Wissia has previously also been awarded an MA by Research in Italian by Kent. Her MA thesis was published as\u00a0<em>Anna Banti and the (Im)possibility of Love <\/em>(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010).<\/p>\n<p>In 2008, Wissia also\u00a0co-founded the international, peer-reviewed journal <em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/skepsi\/\">Skepsi<\/a>,<\/em> and has organised several postgraduate interdisciplinary conferences with the journal editorial team. She was also chief organiser of the Italian International conferences &#8216;Representations of Gendered Violence in Contemporary Italy&#8217; (which featured the participation of renowned author Dacia Maraini), and &#8216;Representations of Organised Crime in Italy and Beyond&#8217;, with a keynote speech given by the prominent mafia expert Marcello Ravveduto. Wissia is currently translating a book by Cesare Romano, which will be published by Karnac in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>All the in the School of European Culture and Languages would like to extend their congratulations to Dr\u00a0Fiorucci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Italian is delighted to announce that Wissia Fiorucci has been awarded a PhD in Italian, under the supervision of Professor Lorenzo Chiesa, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/03\/19\/congratulations-to-dr-wissia-fiorucci\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2345"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2345\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}