Silvia Caporale-Bizzini is Professor of English Studies at the University of Alicante in Spain where she teaches 19th-Century British Literature and British Cultural History. She has edited and co-edited Reconstructing Foucault: Essays in the Wake of the 80s (Rodopi: 1994), We, the “Other Victorians”. Considering the Heritage of 19th-Century Thought (Alicante, 2003), Narrating Motherhoods, Breaking the Silence: Other Mothers, Other Voices (Peter Lang, 2006), with Melita Richter Teaching Subjectivity. Travelling Selves for Feminist Pedagogy (Stockolm University, 2009), and with Andrea O’Really From the Personal to the Political. Toward a New Theory of Maternal Narrative (Susquehanna University Press, 2009). She has also published in English Studies, Contemporary Women’s Writings, Anglia, Critical Quarterly, Contemporary Women’s Writing and Woman: a Cultural Review, among other journals. She has worked on migrant subjectivities and the representation of spaces as identitary emplacements in contemporary writing in English. Silvia is actually researching the discursive representations of the intersection of neoliberalism, precariousness and the discursive construction of poverty as represented in neoliberal society. Her research topics include the literary representation of disposability and neoliberal violence in British and Canadian fiction.
Selected publications:
Articles:
*Caporale Bizzini, S. «Marginalia as Narratives of Ordinary Lives: Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall’s Down to This». 2021. Journal of Commonwealth Literature (ISSN 0021-9894). Vol. 56 (3). 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0021989420981115
*Caporale Bizzini, S. “Resisting the Postmodern Historical Vision: Imag(in)ing History in Don Delill’ s Libra”. Atlantic Literary Review, 2001, nº 1 (2). 119-136. ISSN: 0972-3269.
*Caporale Bizzini, S. “Recollecting Memories, Reconstructing Identities: Narrators as Storytellers in Kazuo Ishiguro’s When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go”. Atlantis. Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, 2013, nª 2 (35). 65-80. ISSN: 0210-6124.https://www.jstor.org/stable/43486059
*Caporale-Bizzini, Silvia. “Narratives of Space in the Writing of Five Contemporary Canadian Women Writers of Italian Origin”. Anglia: Journal of English Philology, vol. 134, nº 1, 2016. 70-87 (artículo). DOI: 10.1515/anglia-2016-0004
*Caporale-Bizzini, Silvia. “Urban Space as Spatial Biography in Anthony De Sa’s Barnacle Love and Kicking the Sky”. Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies, vol. 32, 2018. 65-80.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia. “Ordinary Affects and Spectrality in Three Works: Carole Giangrande’s Midsummer, Brenda Missen’s Tell Anna She’s Safe, and Andrea Thompson’s Over Our Heads». Contemporary Women’s Writing, vol. 14, nº 1, March 2020. 51-65 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cww/vpaa016
*Caporale-Bizzini, Silvia. “Narratives of Disposability in Contemporary British Fiction: Monica Ali`s In the Kitchen and John Lanchester`s Capital». English Studies, vol. 101, nº 5, 2020. 584-597. DOI: 10.1080/0013838X.2020.1798139.
Chapters in books:
*Caporale-Bizzini, Silvia. “Cities of Belonging: Shifting Perceptions in Urban Contemporary Italian Canadian Writers”. En: The Urban Condition: Literary Trajectories Through Canada`s Postmetropolis / Darías Beautell, Eva (ed) / Vernon Press, 2019. 51-71. ISBN: 978-1-62273-417-7.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia. «Grieving and Memory in Don DeLillo`s Falling Man». In Terrorism, Media and the Ethics of Fiction. Transatlantic Perspectives on Don DeLillo. Continuum International Publishing Group, New York, 2010. Pp. 40-50. ISBN: 9781441139931.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia. “Writing as a Practice of Resistance: Motherhood, Identity, and Representation”. In From the Personal to the Political. Toward a New Theory of Maternal Narrative. Susquehanna University Press, 2009. Pp: 37-49. ISBN: 978-1-57591-129-8.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia. “I Remember, Therefore I Write: the Voices of Contemporary Italian Canadian Women Writers”. In Teaching Subjectivity. Travelling Selves for Feminist Pedagogy. Stockholm University, 2009. Pp: 105-120. ISBN: 91-87792-46-X.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia. “Breaking the Boundaries Between Life and Fiction: the Mother-Daughter Tale(s) in Jenny Disk’s Like Mother”. In Narrating Motherhoods, Breaking the Silence. Other Mothers, Other Voices. Peter Lang, 2005. Pp: 107-121. ISBN: 3-03910-789-5.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia. “Can the Intellectual Still Speak? The Example of Don Delillo’s Mao II” In Critical Essays on Don DeLillo. Hall & Co, New York, 2001. Pp: 104-117. ISBN: 0-7838-0458-X.
Edited collections:
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia. Narrating Motherhoods, Breaking the Silence. Other Mothers, Other Voices. Peter Lang, Bern, Berlin, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2006. ISBN: 3-03910-789-5.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia & Richter Malabotta, Melita. Teaching Subjectivity. Travelling Selves for Feminist Pedagogy. Stockholm University, 2009. ISBN: 91-87792-46-X.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia & O’Really, Andrea. From the Personal to the Political. Toward a New Theory of Maternal Narrative. Susquehanna University Press, Selinsgrove, EEUU, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-57591-129-8.
*Caporale Bizzini, Silvia & Aragón Varo, Asunción. Historia Crítica de la Novela Inglesa Escrita por Mujeres. Almar, Salamanca, 2003. ISBN: 84-7455-085-8.
Current I+D projects (if any):
*»The Premise of Happiness: The Function of Feelings in North American Narratives» (PID2020-113190GB-C21).
*“Justice, Citizenship and Vulnerability: Precarious Narratives and Intersectional Approaches (VULNERA)” (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, FF12015-63895-C2–1-R, 2015-19).
*REDES TRANSCANADIENSES: EXCELENCIA Y TRANSVERSALIDAD DESDE ESPAÑA SOBRE CANADA HACIA EUROPA (Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Ref: RED2018-102643-T. 2020-21).