Research Interests for Roberto Dainotto

Literature and Place, Nationalism and Regionalism, Aesthetic Theory, Italian Idealism, Translation Theory, Autobiography, Ideas of Europe, European Visions of the New World, The Cultural Formation of the Italian Nation.

Representative Publications

1. Europe (in Theory) (2007), Duke University Press (Winner of the 2010 Laura Shannon Prize of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies..)
2. Asimmetrie mediterranee. Etica e mare nostrum, NAE, vol. 3 (2003), pp. 3-18
3. The Gubbio Papers: Historic Centers in the Age of the 'Economic Miracle', Journal of Modern Italian Studies, vol. 8 no. 1 (2003), pp. 67-83
4. Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (2000), Ithaca: Cornell University Press
5. R. Dainotto, Historical Materialism as New Humanism: Antonio Labriola’s ‘In Memoria del Manifesto dei Comunisti’ (1895), Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 25 (2008), pp. 265-282
6. The Canonization of Heinrich Heine and the Construction of Jewish-Italian Literature, in The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy, edited by Stanislao Pugliese (2002), pp. 131-138, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press
7. R. Dainotto, Of the Arab Origin of Modern Europe: Giammaria Barbieri, Juan Andrés, and the Origin of Rhyme, Comparative Literature, vol. 58 no. 4 (Fall, 2007), pp. 271-292
8. The Importance of Being Sicilian: Italian Cultural Studies, sicilitudine and je ne sais quoi, edited by Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton, Italian Cultural Studies (2001), pp. 201-219, Boca Raton: Bordighera Press
9. Goethe's Backpack, SubStance, vol. 105 no. 33 (2005), pp. 6-22 [html]
10. Tramonto and Risorgimento: Gentile's Dialectics and the Prophecy of Nation, in Making and Unmaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento, edited by Alberto Ascoli and Krystyna von Henneberg (2001), pp. 241-256, Oxford: Berg.
11. La città e il represso. Moderno, postmoderno, e l' immaginario del(la) capitale, in Golem. Il futuro che passa, edited by Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli (2001), pp. 49-72, Roma: ManifestoLibri.
12. Die Rhetorik des Regionalismus. Architektonischer Ort und der Geist des Gemeinplatzes, in Die Architektur, die Tradition und der Ort: Regionalismen in der europaäischen Stadt, edited by Vittorio Magnano Lampugnani (2000), pp. 15-30, Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
13. R. Dainotto, The Discreet Charm of the Arabist Theory, European History Quarterly, vol. 36 no. 1 (2006), pp. 7-29
14. The `Other' Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the South, Nineteent-Century Contexts, vol. 26 no. 4 (2005), pp. 18-27
15. Vico's Beginnings and Ends: Variations on the Theme of Origins of Language, Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 18 (2000), pp. 13-28