Matteo Brera
Scottish Gadda Juniors
Panel 4 Judge (preliminary selection)
Matteo Brera graduated (University of Pavia University, 2005, cum laude) with a thesis on the 19thc Italian translations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. He also obtained an MA in Modern Philology (University of Pavia, 2007, cum laude) and an MSc in Comparative Literature (University of Edinburgh, 2008, with distinction). He has carried out original comparative research in Italian and Translation Studies, with emphasis on the Italian renderings of Shakespeare’s and Milton’s works. Awarded a College Research Studentship in 2008, he is currently in the third year of a PhD programme in Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Professor Federica G. Pedriali. He is also President of IPSE.
After working as an Italian language teacher in two high schools in Edinburgh, Matteo currently teaches Italian language and culture at the Institute for Applied Language Studies (IALS, University of Edinburgh).
Research interests
Matteo Brera works primarily in the fields of European decadence and Italian modern and contemporary literature. His PhD research project aims to remap Italian Decadentismo in the light of contemporary European literary experiences. His research analyzes the phenomenon of Italian and European decadence from historical, literary and social perspectives.
Other research interests include: Italo Calvino’s Le città invisibili, focusing on its semiotic implications and possible readings; translations of Shakespeare’s and Milton’s poems into Italian; Ettore Sanfelice and his translation of P.B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound; the language and style of librettos for modern and contemporary Italian and European melodrama.
