Simone FRANCESCATO
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 9401
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simone.francescato@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Anglo-American Literature [ANGL-01/B]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/simone.francescato(personal record)
- Office
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Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc
Where: Ca' Bernardo
Office hours
Office hours - 1st semester 2026-27
TUESDAYS from 2pm (please make an appointment via email)
DEGREE THESES: Students seeking supervision for their degree theses should approach the supervisor at least 6 (laurea triennale) or 8 (laurea magistrale) months prior to graduation. Theses will only be accepted if the supervisor is allowed to follow the writing step by step, and if they are at least three-quarters complete a month before the upload.
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LM5]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Laurea
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ MODERNE E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [R352]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LM5]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
RELAZIONI INTERNAZIONALI COMPARATE [LM60]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
LINGUE, CULTURE E SOCIETÀ MODERNE E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [R352]
Corso di Dottorato (D.M.226/2021)
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Letterature anglo-americane [ANGL-01/B]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale
- Known languages
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Inglese
(scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Discipline dello spettacolo Linea:
Cinema
Area: Lingue e letterature americane Linea: Studi americani
Area: Lingue e letterature americane
Area: Lingue e letterature europee Linea: inglese
Area: Scienze del linguaggio Linea: Didattica delle lingue
Area: Scienze del linguaggio Linea: Disturbi del linguaggio
Area: Studi culturali
- Adattamenti intra e intermediali
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- Adattamento cinematografico del testo letterario
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- Adattamento intra- e interlinguistico, interculturale e intermodale nella comunicazione turistica e del patrimonio culturale in prospettiva accessibile
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/12
- Collezionismo d'arte ed estetica letteraria negli Stati Uniti tra Otto e Novecento
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- Henry James tra naturalismo, estetismo e decadentismo
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- Henry James, aspetti intertestuali dell'opera narrativa
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- Il Veneto e Venezia nella cultura nordamericana
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- Il cinema statunitense negli anni settanta del Novecento
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- L'invecchiamento nella cultura nordamericana
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- Tourism studies e letteratura nordamericana
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
- Transatlantic realism and naturalism
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/11
Publication highlights
FRANCESCATO George Washington Cable. Racconti creoli , Padova, LINEA edizioni, vol. 1, pp. 1-257 (ISBN 978-88-314998-4-2)
- URL correlato 2023,
Traduzione di Libro - ARCA card: 10278/5011899
MAMOLI ZORZI R.; FRANCESCATO S. The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James , Vol. XXVII: The Aspern Papers and Other Tales , Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, vol. XXVII, pp. 1-776 (ISBN 978-1-107-02964-4)
DOI - URL correlato 2022,
Critical edition of texts/Critical edition of excavation - ARCA card: 10278/36065
FRANCESCATO, S. Clyde Fitch. Sapho. A New Play in Four Acts / Sapho. Un nuovo dramma in quattro atti , Padova, LINEA edizioni, pp. 1-320 (ISBN 978-88-314991-4-9)
2020,
Pubblicazione di fonti inedite - ARCA card: 10278/3732498
FRANCESCATO, S. Pound Reading James: The Brunnenburg Volumes in THE HENRY JAMES REVIEW, vol. 39.2, pp. 293-306 (ISSN 1080-6555)
DOI - URL correlato 2018,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/3701252
FRANCESCATO S. Collecting and Appreciating: Henry James and the Transformation of Aesthetics in the Age of Consumption , OXFORD, UK, Peter Lang Ltd, pp. 1-209 (ISBN 9783034301633)
- URL correlato 2010,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/30444
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Associate professor of US literature and culture. He earned his PhD from Ca' Foscari University of Venice in 2008 and studied at the University of Birmingham (UK), Harvard University (USA) and Freie Universitaet Berlin (D).
His main area of research is late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature, and in particular the work of Henry James on which he published the book Collecting and Appreciating: Henry James and the Transformation of Aesthetics in the Age of Consumption, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2010). He has co-edited (with Rosella Mamoli Zorzi) the volume The Aspern Papers and Other Tales in the series The Complete Fiction of Henry James (Cambridge University Press, 2022). He is the editor of LINEA classici, a series of interational classics with parallel original text (Padua: LINEA Edizioni).
He is a member of AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani), EAAS (European Association of American Studies), IASA (International American Studies Association), The Henry James Society, ISTW (International Society For Travel Writing), ENAS (European Network in Aging Studies).
He was appointed Secretary of AISNA for 2017-2019 and sat on the AISNA board in 2020-2022.
He is the Coordinator of the Teaching committee of LLEAP - Master's Degree in European, American and Post-colonial Languages (2019-).
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