Philology and literary studies

The research project connects the critical approaches of disability studies and health humanities and focuses on the narrative, cultural and discursive aspect of the concept of disability. In particular the project will develop along two main lines of investigation: Alzheimer’s and cognitive disability narratives, Dis-abiliy narratives in children’s and young adult’s narratives.  Alzheimer’s and cognitive […]

This project aims to develop an innovative research pathway to identify a corpus of literary texts that can be used in medical/healthcare training courses to develop empathy and clinical acumen among medical students and medical and healthcare staff. Narrative Medicine emphasises the importance of understanding the patient’s narrative and of developing empathy as a key […]

Phenomena of social inequality and cultural exclusion, as well as forms of restrictions to the citizenship status and the consequent populist drifts deprived of any real political and cultural orientation, are effects of the complex power dynamics that, in this age of ours marked by an ever-increasing mobility, are exercised by global capitalism on the […]

The project aims to enhance the Digital Library of the “Progetto Mambrino”, a project that includes the publication of novels of Spanish origin produced in Venice in the mid-sixteenth century (1554-1568), with a focus on accessibility, interoperability and reutilization of the data. The key objectives are: Circulation of digitized images in IIIF format; Accessibility of […]