Corrado Federici
Rank: Professor
Department: Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
Ext: 3309
E-mail: cfederic@brocku.ca
Work currently in progress, or about to be begun, along with indication
of when the project is likely to culminate and what form it will take:
At the present time I am in the process of preparing a manuscript to submit as a book proposal to potential publishers. The tentative title of the volume is Figures and Speech. Essays on Literature and the Arts, which I am co-editing with Professor Esther Raventos-Pons of York University. This is a collection of essays based on presentations made at the Image and Imagery Conference held at Bock University last October 5-7. My colleague and I expect to be working on the volume most of the Summer of 2001. 1 have also begun another project which may result in the publication of a volume. The reason I state it in conditional terms is that an Italian scholar named Raffaele Milani is scheduled to have his book entitled L‘arte delpaesaggio (The Art of the Picturesque), published in Italy some time in 2001 and has asked me to translate the book into English so that it can also be published by a North American Press. The text is a study of notions of the picturesque from antiquity to the present and from philosophical, literary and artist perspectives. At this point, I am in the preliminary phase of assessing the "translatability" of the work while the author is investigating the funding options as well as potential interest on the part of publishers. If a publisher is found I plan to work on the translation during the Summer and into the Fall semester. Beyond this, I am currently co-organizing with Professor Klay Dyer of the Department of English a symposium on the writings of Umberto Eco, to be called, Twelve Walks in the Fictional Woods, and will be held at Brock on October 5, 2001. We expect to pursue the option of publishing the proceedings from the symposium. In all honesty, I am not able to see beyond these projects for the immediate future since I also need to prepare for a new course offered this Summer in Rome and to be taught jointly with the Classics Department.
Work previously undertaken, research achievements or projects completed:
In the last two years I have translated four volumes from the original Italian. Titian, A Catalogue of the Autograph Words (New York: Rizzoli, forthcoming 2001), Italian Women Poets. An Anthology (Toronto: Guernica, forthcoming 2001), The Last Judgment Restored (New York: Rizzoli, 2000), The Power of Location. Essays on Adespotic Aesthetics (New York: Lang, 1999).
Research Grants held (including dates) and Research Awards or Honours:
Areas of Research Interest (in brief):
Modern Italian literature, Literary theory, Aesthetics, Translation theory
