Ricciarda RICORDA

Ricciarda Ricorda graduated in “Letters” in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Padua in 1973; she obtained a study-grant from the National Research Council at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. From 1981 to 1992 she worked as a university researcher in the Department of Italian Literature and Romance Philology at the same university. From 1992 to 2004 she was an Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature (L-FIL-LET/11) in the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy; now she is Full Professor of the same discipline, again at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.

Professor Ricorda’s scientific activity has focused on three main areas, the period between the late 18th and early 19th century, the second half of the 19th century, and the 20th century.

With regard to the first of these periods, she has worked on travel literature, literary journalism and narrative and theatrical forms, paying particular attention to the dynamics of literary genres.

She has edited a number of texts, organized conferences and edited their Proceedings and published papers and essays on the novelists.

In the field of the second half of the 19th century she has carried out extensive research on the «Nuova Antologia»; she has worked on “Scapigliatura” and devoted several years’ study to Angelo Conti.

With regard to the 20th century, Professor Ricorda has carried out a series of surveys to identify modes and forms of prose in the period between the two wars and “mixed forms” of the second half of the 20th century, devoting essays to Leonardo Sciascia, Guido Piovene, Primo Gesualdo Bufalino, Goffredo Parise and Italo Calvino.

At present, a theme in the center of her interest is travel literature, both in its historical development and in the particular declination of its relationship with migrations.

She coordinates, at Ca’ Foscari University, «Archivio delle Scritture Scrittrici Migranti».

She is on the editorial board of the journals «Quaderni Veneti», «Ermeneutica letteraria», «Studi goldoniani» and «Todomodo. Rivista internazionale di studi sciasciani» and is a member of the scientific Committee of the Gozzi Collection at the Biblioteca Marciana of Venice and of the committee for the National Edition of the works of Carlo Gozzi.