Postdoctoral Research Fellow
U of Warwick
Biographical Sketch: Dr Sara Boezio is MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) Fellow at the University of Warwick, where she has recently completed her PhD in Italian.
She is also an Associate Teaching Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now 'Advance HE') in the UK.
Previously, she obtained both her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Pisa and her Honours Degree from the Scuola Normale Superiore.
Her M.A. dissertation, L’attività critica e saggistica di Federico De Roberto da ‘Arabeschi’ al Corriere della Sera, was awarded first-class honours as well as the national Galilei-Carducci prize for best M.A. dissertation on Post-Unification Italy.
Her comparative interests have led her to conduct research in Italy, in France at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris and in Lyon, in Canada (at the University of Toronto) and in the US (at CUNY – New York and at Harvard University).
She is interested in the history of ideas of the late 19th century and is working on the book manuscript of her thesis, Italy and the European Fin de Siècle: The Century’s Turn in the Printed Media of the 1890s-1900s, where she has explored from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective how historical, political, social, and cultural changes shaped new representations of time during the end of the 19th century.
Her most recent contributions have appeared in the edited volumes: Figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento (Milan: FrancoAngeli), The Poetics of Decadence in fin-de-siècle Italy (Oxford: Peter Lang), and The Archeology of the Unconscious (New York-London: Routledge).