Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Areas of Interest
- Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
- Literary Theory
- Lyric Studies
- Psychoanalysis and Trauma Studies
- Women's Writing
- Eco-criticism
Biography
Roberto Binetti is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is working on his next monograph, ‘Italian Poetry in the Age of Nuclear Anxiety’. This project investigates the emergence of nuclear anxiety and catastrophism in Italian poetry from the Cold War years up to the present day. This will be the first research project to incorporate research on modern lyric poetry into a transnational study of nuclear anxiety through the filter of environmental humanities.
He earned his DPhil in Medieval and Modern Languages from the University of Oxford in 2022 with a thesis on representations of gender, history, and politics in 20th-century Italian lyric poetry. During his time at Oxford, he was awarded the Graduate Development Scholarship at St Anne's College and served as a Tutor in Italian and Graduate Lecturer.
He is the co-founder of "Non solo muse" and "Italian Poetry Today", research platforms that promote and engage the broader public with Italian culture and literature.
Recent Publications:
- R. Binetti, ‘“At the violet hour”: Tiresia fra Andrea Zanzotto e T.S. Eliot’, in Zanzotto europeo: la sua poesia di movimento, ed. by Andrea Cortellessa, Laura Toppan and Giorgia Bongiorno (Florence: Franco Cesati, 2023), pp. 217–224
- R. Binetti, ‘Non appaio io: Photographic Lyricism and Self-Othering in Laura Pugno’s Il colore oro’, Italica 98:1 (2023), pp. 481–504, https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/ital/issue/99/4
- R. Binetti, ‘Posthumous Selves: Transnationalizing Italian Women’s Self-Elegy’, Journal of World Literature 8:1 (2023), pp.79–103, https://brill.com/view/journals/jwl/8/1/jwl.8.issue-1.xml
- R. Binetti, ‘The Art of Floating. Sistema estetico, desiderio e temporalità lirica nell’opera di Anne Carson’, Special issue on Anne Carson, Trasparenze 8 (2022), pp. 98–119, https://www.sanmarcodeigiustiniani.it/download/trasparenze-8-22-anne-car...
Teaching:
- ITA1830H (Fall 2023) Editing 900: Leonardo Sciascia, his World, his Archive (co-teaching with Prof. Eloisa Morra)
- ITA455H1 (Winter 2024) Women Writers in Italy