Interview
Biography
Born in Naples 16th May 1960, Daniela Daniele (daniela.daniele@dllgr.uniud.it) obtained
an MA and a PhD. in comparative literature from the Graduate Center of the City University
of New York and a doctorate in English Studies from the University of Genoa.
She has been a researcher in English Studies since 1995 and now teaches Anglo-American
Literature at the University of Udine.
For many years she has been interested in the contemporary North American novel in
relation to new technologies, postmodernism and the metropolitan space, themes dealt with
in Città senza mappa: paesaggi urbani e racconto postmoderno in America, Alessandria,
Dell'Orso, 1994.
She is one of the founding members of the multimedia application association
"Artware" which promotes the creation of electronic supports for the study of
the humanities. In 1993 the group produced a multimedia hypertext dedicated to the artist
Robert Smithson which was exhibited at the Museo Pecci di Prato and received an award at
"Electronìe d'arte e altre scritture" (Lavatoio Contumaciale, Rome, 17 January
1994).
She has written on cultural systems and technological means and has carried out studies
on the American performance artists Robert Smithson and Laurie Anderson, on Thomas
Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, on post-modern American pastiche and on Grace Paley
(editing the collection of poems, In autobus e altre poesie, Roma, Empiria, 1993).
She spoke on the new genres of electronic writing in the seminar "Hypertexts:
concepts and applications in literary studies", during the IV congress of the
International Society for the Study of European Ideas, Graz, Karl-Franzens-Universität,
23 August, 1994.
She held a conference on postmodern assemblage techniques at the Erasmus conference
"American Studies" dedicated to "Postmodernity: The United States after
1945", John F. Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin,
11 September, 1994.
She contributed to Tommaso Pomilio's programme ,"Crocevia" (Rai Due
regionale, October-December 1990), with a weekly spot on performance art in the United
States, offering texts and performances by Diamanda Galas, John Giorno, Lydia Lunch, Karen
Finley, Keith Haring, Laurie Anderson and William S. Burroughs.
She translated and adapted for radio Donald Barthelme's story, "Il foto", Rai
Radio Uno, "Pangloss", June 1990.
Other translations include "Camera oscura" by Susan Daitch, Linea d'ombra,
55, December 1990, pp.91-93; "Esilio" by William Gass, Linea d'ombra, 76
(Nov. 1992), pp.83-93; "Swing, Billie" by Alexis De Veaux in Derive Approdi,
8, summer 1995, p.49.
With Filippo La Porta she edited the dossier "Hyper, cyber e chimere",
Linea d'ombra 96, September 1994, pp. 35-49.
Cybernetic bodies were the theme of her "Corpi imprevisti e donne in
performance", introduction to Meduse cyborg, Italian edition of Re/search.
Angry Women, Antologia di donne in performance, Milan, Shake, 1997, and
"Corpi idealizzati, corpi smembrati: la donna come soggetto e oggetto della
rappresentazione surrealista", Quaderni del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature
straniere moderne dell'Università di Genova, 7, 1995, pp. 165-188.
She contributed reviews, articles and interviews to L'Indice, Linea d'ombra,
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Bibliography
Among her published interviews: Kathy Acker ("Il corpo osceno della scrittura.
Intervista a Kathy Acker", Decoder, 6, April 1991, pp.422-25), Joseph McElroy
("Cervelli in orbita", Linea d'ombra, 96, September 1994, pp. 38-40), and
Mark Leyner, "Non sono una fantastica muscolatura", L'Indice dei libri del
mese, 7, July 1995, p. 11.
Other essays include:
- "Naturalismo hardcore." in Leggendaria 6 (dic. 1997), pp. 6-7.
- "The Fate of Postmodern American Fiction in Italy" in Closing the Gap:
American Postmodern Fiction in Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands, eds. Theo
D'haen and Hans Bertens, Amsterdam-Atlanta, Rodopi, 1997, pp. 149-170.
- "Locations: Notes on (Post)Feminism and Personal Criticism" in Critical
Studies on the Feminist Subject, Giovanna Covi ed., Ed. Università degli Studi di
Trento, 1997, pp. 79-100.
- "Storie della fine del tempo. Nuovi libri e un convegno", Linea d'ombra,
123, marzo 1997, pp. 9-10.
- "Beatnik: prove di memoria", Libri, supplemento al numero 5/1997 di Noidonne,
pp.1-2.
- "Multiculturalismo e teorie postcoloniali", in Teoria della letteratura.
Prospettive dagli Stati Uniti,a c. di Donatella Izzo, Roma, Nuova Italia Scientifica,
1996, pp.133-158.
- "Schermi vittoriani", Bianco e Nero. Rivista trimestrale del Centro
Sperimentale di Cinematografia, luglio-dicembre 1996, pp. 173-182.
- "Dentro la pancia del mostro: chimere e computer nella fiction postmoderna
americana", Decoder 2-3, 1994, pp. 722-725. (Article republished in a shorter
version in Linea d'ombra 96, settembre 1994, pp. 46-49.)
- "Travelogues in a Broken Landscape: Robert Smithson's Mixed-medial tribute to
William Carlos Williams", in Technology and the American Imagination: An Ongoing
Challenge.Proceedings of the XII Aisna Conference, Venezia, Supernova, 1994, pp.
94-105.
- "Il prisma delle identità: memoria etnica e sottoculture nell'East Village di New
York", Nuova Corrente XL (1993), pp.173-194.
- "Riots nel linguaggio", Luogo Comune III, 4 (1993), pp.68-71.
- "Differenze e interferenze: G. C. Spivak e il femminismo post-coloniale negli Stati
Uniti", Igitur V, 1, 1993, pp. 115-128.
- "Grandi città e forme brevi: la struttura paratattica del saggio urbano
contemporaneo", in Giuseppe Castorina e Vittoriana Villa, eds., La fortuna della
retorica, Atti del XII Congresso dell'Ass. Italiana di Anglistica, Chieti, Métis,
1992, pp. 403-409.
- "'Kierkegaard Unfair to Schlegel': l'ironia endemica nel racconto postmoderno di
Donald Barthelme", Igitur IV, 2, luglio-dicembre 1992, pp. 25-42.
- "Rovine belliche e detriti recenti: le "zone" in "Gravity's
Rainbow"", Rivista di studi anglo-americani, VI, n.8, 1990, pp.421-30
- "'Il corpo umano diventa paesaggio': corpi elettronici e paesaggi artificiali nella
"performance" multimediale di Laurie Anderson", Nuova Corrente,
XXXVII (1990), pp.75-100.
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