Daniela Caselli

Biography

I teach modern literature, especially modernism, critical theory, and gender. Among the modules I offer are: 'Modernism' (year 2); 'Key Issues in Twentieth-Century Literary and Critical Theory' (MA module); 'Improper Modernism: Samuel Beckett and Djuna Barnes ' (year 3); 'Dante in Modernism' (year 3); 'Modernism and Its Margins' (MA module). I also teach on 'Theory and Text' (year 1); 'English Tutorials' (year 1); and 'Gender Sexuality and Culture' (year 2 and MA). I am currently the President of the Beckett Society (2017–2020). I was a founder member and Treasurer (2009-2013) of the British Association for Modernist Studies (www.bamc.ac.uk; see also http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=417061&c=2). I am a member of the Modernist Studies Association (MSA), British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA), Centre for International Research in Childhood in Literature, Culture, Media (CIRCL), Associazione Italiana Anglisti (AIA).

Research Interest

My research is in modern literature and culture, especially literary modernism, critical theory, comparative literature, and gender and sexuality. Samuel Beckett has been and remains one of my main research interests. My book on Beckett and Dante - Beckett's Dantes. Intertextuality in the Fiction and Criticism (2005; paperbak 2009) - traces Dante's presence in Beckett's prose and argues that the Beckett/Dante case study makes us rethink the relation between authority and intertextuality in modern literature.