Dott Roberto Bertoni
Associate Professor
Department of Italian
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
Roberto Bertoni, born in La Spezia in 1952, is an Associate Professor at the Department of Italian, Trinity College Dublin. He teaches language and culture to undergraduate students of Italian, and more general topics to Comparative Literature and European Studies postgraduates. He has published on several Italian topics, and among these are publications on Bonaviri, Calvino, and poetry from Liguria. His writings on intercultural East Asian/Italian themes include essays on Buddhism and poetry in Italy, Italian perceptions of Korea, Korean TV drama, and interrelated aspects of Japanese, Korean and European science fiction. These essays, and Quaderni di cultura, a series of books he edits (published by TCD and Trauben Turin) are available here and his last book of short stories is Altrove (Lecce, Manni, 2014). His personal site can be found here. He is also the editor of the online journal Carte allineate. Italian literature since 1945 is his most specific field of research, which has resulted in numerous publications. Parallel to this is his interest in the social aspects of literature, science fiction, intellectual commitment in Europe, Gramsci, the impact of antiquity on modern literature and film, and some aspects of the cultural interactions between East Asia and Italy. He has organized international study groups and has been the editor of a series of collective publications on literary and social aspects of the modern, mostly but not limited to, the Italian context. The most recent project is “Progetto Singapore, available here. Bertonis general research profile can be viewed here. Administrative duties presently include the co-ordination of Italian European Studies; an Erasmus exchange between European Studies (TCS) and the Italian universities of Pavia and Siena; European Studies and Two Subject Moderatorship Senior Sophisters studying Italian. Bertoni is the representative of the Italian Department in the SLLCS Undergraduate Committee and will be Head of the Italian Department from 1st July 2016.
Research Interest
Twentieth-century literature, modern and contemporary narrative, Giuseppe Bonaviri, Italo Calvino , Quaderni di Cultura Italiana, poetry from Liguria, annotated bibliography of critical work published each year on Italian 20th century narrative, translations from and introductory notes to a number of Irish poets. Western reception and interpretation of Buddhism. Italian perspectives on Korea and other East Asian countries.
Publications
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R. Bertoni, Un secolo con Vittorini. Ed. of volume, and author of chapter Nóstos e assenza del padre: Conversazione in Sicilia e Notti sullaltura (pp. 83-90)
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Roberto Bertoni (editing, translations and introductions), Poesie irlandesi degli ultimi decenni, Turin, Trauben, 2012, 130 pp
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Roberto Bertoni, Aspetti del rapporto tra Buddhismo e cultura in Italia. Editor of whole book. And author of chapter Buddhismo e Occidente: capoversi introduttivi, and of a number of introductory notes to poets in the same volume., Dublin and Turin, Trinity College Dublin and Trauben, 2012, 204pp
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Roberto Bertoni, Connectedness, Identity and Alienation in some Italian Novels and Films Depicting Contact between People from Italy and People from Countries Other than Italy in the 21st century, Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship (Osaka 2013), 2013, p32 - 40
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Roberto Bertoni, The Innocent Man (ì°©í•œ 남ìž): Alienation of Characters and Audience, Acquisition of New Identity, Catharsis, Proceedings of the European Conference on Arts and Humanities (Brighton 2013), 2013, p312 - 323
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IAFOR (International Academic Forum)(ed.), ACCS 2014 (4th Asian Cultural Studies Conference), ACCS 2014, Osaka, ISSN - 2187-4751, 29 May to 1 June, 2014, 1-12 p
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Roberto Bertoni, Notes on antiquity in western late modernity through novel and film, English and American Cultural Studies, 14, (1), 2014, p53 - 71
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Roberto Bertoni, East/West Interaction in Some Comics Written in French, East/West SF, East/West SF, Daejeon, South Korea, 14 June 2014, edited by Hannam University , Hannam University, 2014, pp15 - 22
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Roberto Bertoni, Altrove, San Cesario di Lecce (Italy), Manni, 2014, 1 - 176pp
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Roberto Bertoni (editor), EurKorea 2013: European Perspectives of Korea (Acta of the Conference Held at Trinity College Dublin, 7th to 9th November 2013), Dublin and Turin, Trinity College Dublin and Trauben, 2014, 1 - 280pp
