Full Professor
SPAN-01/A Letteratura spagnola
frattale@lettere.uniroma2.it
Positions held
From 1984-85 to 1989-90 she taught Catalan language and literature in a free course sponsored by the Fundació Congrés de Cultura Catalana at the University of Perugia
From 1988-89 to 1989-90 she was a senior lecturer of Catalan Literature at the Chair of “Romance Philology” at the University of Macerata
From 1996 to 2006 she was a Researcher at the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy of the Tor Vergata University of Rome
From 2006 she is an Associate Professor of Spanish Literature at the Faculty Lettere e Filosofia (Faculty of Literature and Philosophy) of the Tor Vergata University of Rome
From 2022 she is Full Professor of Spanish Literature at the Faculty Lettere e Filosofia (Faculty of Literature and Philosophy) of the Tor Vergata University of Rome
During academic years 2016-2017, 2017-2018, and 2019-2020, she is visiting professor at the Pontificia Facoltà Teologica Teresianum in Rome
Participation in PhD programs:
From 2007 to 2012: member of the scientific committee of the PhD program “Lingue e letterature straniere” at the Tor Vergata University of Rome.
From 2012 to 2014: member of the scientific committee of the PhD program “Studi Umanistici” at the Tor Vergata University of Rome.
From 2014 to 2017: member of the scientific committee of the PhD program “Studi Comparati. Lingue, letterature e formazione” at the Tor Vergata University of Rome.
From 2017 to 2021: member of the scientific committee of the PhD program “Studi Comparati. Lingue, Letterature e Arti” at the Tor Vergata University of Rome.
Fields of research
Her areas of expertise are: Catalan Modernism, The Generation of ’98, 20th Century Poetry (form Darío to Unamuno, Ganivet, D’Ors, Jiménez, Lorca, Hernández, Alberti, Rosales, Juan Carlos Mestre), with special regard to inter-artistic and transmedia dynamics and themes inherent to Spanish mysticism and their reception in modern literature (Ramon Llull, Juan de la Cruz, Teresa de Jesús)
Editorial boards
Currently she is a member of:
The Executive Committee of the book series “Biblioteca Mediterranea”, Edizioni dell’Orso di Torino
The Editorial Board of the journal “Castilla. Estudios de literatura” (University of Valladolid)
The Scientific Committee of the journal “Teresianum” at the Pontificia Facoltà Teologica di Roma
The Editorial Board and external supervision of the journal “Tejuelo” (University of Badajoz)
The International Scientific Advisory Council of the journal “OGIGIA, Revista Electrónica de Estudios Hispánicos” University of Valladolid)
Peer Reviewer for the following journals
Reviewer for the following journals:
“Cuadernos AISPI”, “Tejuelo”, “Tintas”, “Orillas”, “Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione”, “Le forme e la storia”, “Teresianum”, “Castilla. Estudios de Literatura”, “Rivista di Filologie e letterature ispaniche”, “Artifara”, “Siglo XXI. Literatura y cultura españolas”, “Il Confronto Letterario”
Research training and grants
From 1984 to 1990 she was a fellow of the Fundació Congrés de Cultura Catalana in Barcelona
Participation in financed projects of national relevance (PRIN)
1999-2001: Participant in the Cofin project (coordinator: Prof. J.L. Gotor) “Libri di sorte, “sacramental historiada”, canzoniere presso la corte di Caterina d’Austria nella Savoia”
2002-2004: Head of the research group of the Tor Vergata University of Rome, for the Cofin project (coordinator: Prof. G. Morelli) “Irradiazione dei codici letterari e linguistici nella cultura moderna spagnola”
Coordinator of projects financed by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research (MIUR) (ex 60%):
2006: “Sincronie, chiasmi e dissonanze nella poesia spagnola del primo Novecento”
2007: “I codici del ‘surreale’ e la poesia spagnola del Novecento”
2008: “L’inarticolato, l’inconscio e la poesia spagnola del primo Novecento”
2009: “L’inarticolato, l’inconscio e la poesia spagnola del primo Novecento. Rafael Alberti e la poesia visual”
Other research funding obtained:
2017: Annual individual funding of basic research activities (FABBR) awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research.
Participation in Italian research groups:
Member of the METE (Mediatori e Traduttori Europei) project (since 2016)
Member of scientific committee of the Research center “Paesaggio e territorio” (Pa.Ter) at the Department of History, Cultural Heritage, Education and Society (Storia, Patrimonio culturale, Formazione e Società) of the Tor Vergata University of Rome (from 2021)
Participation in financed projects of international relevance:
2019-2021: Participant in the project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Education, FRACTALES. ESTRATEGIAS PARA LA FRAGMENTACION EN LA NARRATIVA ESPAÑOLA DEL SIGLO XXI. (Convocatoria 2019 Proyectos de I+D+i – PGC Tipo B) (Call 2019 R+D+i Projects – PGC Type B) (Ref. PID2019-104215GB-I00)
Other research assignments:
She is scientific responsible in a research project of international relevance:
2021-2023: “Edizioni italiane illustrate dell’opera di san Juan de la Cruz: catalogazione e riflessione trasduttologica”. Proposing institution: Pontificia Facoltà Teologica Teresianum. Duration of the project: 3 years ( https://www.teresianum.net/progetti/edizioni-italiane-illustrate-dellopera-di-san-juan-de-la- cruz-catalogazione-e-riflessione-trasduttologica/)
Selected international colloquia and papers
XVI Congress AIH (Roma, University La Sapienza, July 19-24, 2010), with a paper entitled: “Rafael Alberti y la ‘poesia visiva’: crónica de un desencuentro”
XXVI Congress AISPI (University of Trento, October 27-30, 2010), with a paper entitled: “Il poeta sulla soglia. Rafael Alberti tra segno e disegno”
International Study Meeting “Rafael Alberti a Roma. Un poeta tra pittori”, sponsored by the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Italy and the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (November 13, 2014), with a paper entitled: “Dal pre-verbale al post-linguistico. L’ispirazione verbografica e la poesia dipinta di Rafael Alberti”
“Brevitas. Letture e scritture a confronto”, workshop organized by the Tor Vergata University of Rome and the University of Macerata, at the the Tor Vergata University of Rome (February 25, 2015), with a paper entitled: “Griglie, paradigmi interpretativi e creazioni verbografiche”
“Santa Teresa di Gesù e l’humanum”, international congress organized by the Pontificio Istituto Universitario Teresianum in Rome (November 4-6, 2015). Paper entitled: “Santa Teresa e l’umana malinconia”
“Cervantes e l’Italia (1616-2016)”, international congress organized by the Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, sponsored by the Royal Academy of Spain and the Cultural Office of the Embassy of Spain in Italy (November 24-26, 2016). Paper entitled: “Intertestualità e intermedialità nel Don Chisciotte immaginato da Mimmo Paladino” (Università la Sapienza, November 25, 2016)
International Congress “Tradurre se stessi”, organized by the research group METE (Mediatori e Traduttori Europei) of the Literature Macroarea at the Tor Vergata University of Rome in collaboration with the Scuola di Dottorato in Studi Comparati: Lingue, Letterature e Arti. Paper entitled: “El ángel rabioso di Rafael Alberti, tra (auto)traduzione e riscrittura” (Università di Roma “Tor Vergata”, December 15-16, 2016)
XXX AISPI Congress (Torino, June 14-17, 2017) “Continuidad, descontinuidad, nuevos paradigmas”, with a paper entitled: “Écfrasis e intermedialidad en el poema ‘A la pintura’ de Rafael Alberti”
International Congress “Memoria e speranza in San Giovanni della Croce”, organized by the Pontificio Istituto Universitario Teresianum in Rome (May 9-10, 2019). Paper entitled: “«Aunque es de noche»: esperienza, memoria e speranza della notte nella poesia di san Giovanni della Croce”
II International Congress Poéticas (Universidad Autónoma de Puebla and “Guglielmo Marconi” University of Rome, June 24-26, 2019), with a keynote speaker lecture: “Roma, peligro para caminantes y la lengua ‘en vilo’ de Rafael Alberti”
XXXI AISPI Congress (Bari, July 16-19, 2021) “Saperi umanistici, scienza e tecnologia nella ricerca e nella didattica di ambito ispanistico”, with a paper entitled: “Escritura autorreferencial y perspectiva biopoética en la narrativa de Fernando Aramburu”