Personal profile: Cristina Iuli

Huckleberry Finn Lives!
This is a "hands on" course that presupposes the constant active participation of students, who, guided the professor and tutor, will engage in a comparative analysis of a great, classic novel in American Literature and two of its contemporary rewritings, namely, Nancy Rawles's "My Jim" (2005) and Percival Everett's "James" (2024).
After exploring the social, racial, and historical context in which Twain’s great classic is set, we will engage as a class in the analysis of what was at stake in the characterization of an adolescent, poor, white boy in 1884, paying particular attention to the unsaid, common knowledge (prejudices, rules of behavior, ideologies, power structure, etc.) readers had to share to understand the novel’s deep structure of meaning.

Category Didattica A.A. 2024/2025 / Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici / Corsi di Laurea / LINGUE STRANIERE MODERNE / VERCELLI

-- “There has never been a document of culture which was not at one and the same time a document of barbarism.” Walter Benjamin, Thesis on the Philosophy of History

Category Didattica A.A. 2024/2025 / Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici / Corsi di Laurea / LINGUE STRANIERE MODERNE / VERCELLI

This class engages in the comparative analysis of two great classic novels of American literature and two of their contemporary rewritings of them. After exploring the social, racial and historical context in which Mark Twain's and William Faulkner's novels are set, we will engage as a class in the analysis of the definition of the characters, paying particular attention to the unsaid, the oversaid, and the common knowledge (prejudices, rules of behavior, ideologies, power structure, etc.) presupposed in the definition of believable and interesting characters from a literary point of view. This first part of the course will provide the preliminary knowledge from which to tackle two contemporary rewritings of the novels analyzed.

Category Didattica A.A. 2024/2025 / Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici / Corsi di Laurea Magistrale / LINGUE, CULTURE, TURISMO / VERCELLI

This is a course on American Cultural Studies. It examines some key concepts in the culture of the United States by looking at how those concepts have circulated in in popular music. It assumes the centrality of black popular music in American cultural history, focusing in particular on the legacy of black feminist performers and on the function of popular music in the context of the social and historical turbulences of the postwar years.

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This hands-on course introduces students to the representation of race and race relations in the United States through traditional and digital methodologies. The course requires active participation by students who, guided by the instructors, will read and compare texts, familiarize with some of the debates in the field of Digital Humanities, learn to use two of the main platforms for writing and digital research and will create a digital critical edition of John Henry Hewlett's forgotten novel, Cross on the Moon, using the digital publishing platform Manifold.
This course integrates literary theory, cultural studies, race studies, archival research, and digital humanities foundational training.

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This hands-on course introduces students to the representation of race and race relations in the United States through traditional and digital methodologies. The course requires active participation by students who, guided by the instructors, will read and compare texts, familiarize with some of the debates in the field of Digital Humanities, learn to use two of the main platforms for writing and digital research and will contribute to creating a digital publications on keywords of race representation using the platform Manifold.

This course integrates literary theory, cultural studies, race studies, archival research, and digital humanities foundational training.

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The aim of the course is to introduce students to themes and issues in the history of American Literature by focusing on a wide formal and thematic spectrum of American short stories. Each class will be partly a lecture introducing a given writer in the context of his/her social and historical background, and partly a close reading and discussion of the texts assigned for each class. Students will also be introduced to terms and concepts for literary analysis, paying special attention to the formal elements of a given short story: structure, narration, characterization, point of view, voice.

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