Derek Duncan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3786440 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Derek Duncan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Derek |
| FAMILY NAME | Duncan |
| SIGNATURE | DUNCAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1188-4935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Shades of complicity: Archives of the ‘implicated subject’
Knowledge of the Arandora Star is no longer limited to members of the UK's historic Italian community but is shared by a much larger constituency thanks to the greater accessibility of historical documents relating to the sinking of the ship, and to the substantial volume of new creative work inspired by it. This article examines this expansion of historical memory by following two discrete but entangled strands. The first follows the constructio…
Transnational perspectives: Pedagogical practices
Peer reviewed
Corporealities in Italian Studies
This article illustrates the different shape that discourses of corporeality have taken within the discipline from a chronological perspective. The first section explores how critical frameworks relating to embodiment, performativity and affect expand premodern Italian studies beyond the limited patriarchal canon and better understand ‘performances’ of the Passion by late medieval and early modern women religious as a form of co-suffering that fo…
Transnationalizing Modern Languages: The Project Exhibition
‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ (2014–2017) [TML] was an AHRC-funded research project, one of three large grants awarded under t
Beyond Borders: Transnational Italy
These three short articles investigate how exhibitions function as primary research outputs. They present critical reflections on the preparation and realisation of a series of exhibitions that drew on material produced by a large research team. Written from the perspectives of the professional curators and an academic researcher, the essays set out the theoretical premises of the exhibition as a medium of communication, and research tool. The ex…
Collaging Cultures: Curating Italian Studies
This essay aims to contribute to current debates about how to research and teach within the disciplinary frame of modern languages in light of the knowledge that recent patterns of global migration have made the conventional fusion of national territory and language untenable. The challenge is to reimagine histories of cultural practice and production critically in spite of the national frame that continues to shape our thinking. Starting from th…
Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality: A Case of Possible Difference
Derek Duncan's timely study is the first book in English to examine constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature. In admirably clear and elegant prose, Duncan analyzes texts ranging from the 1890s through the 1990s. He brings canonical authors like D'Annunzio and Pasolini together with under-appreciated writers like Comisso, and also looks at less conventionally literary genres. Duncan takes on the thorny theoretical issues surroundi…
Antonioni: Centenary Essays
The centenary of Michelangelo Antonioni's birth in 2012 prompted a much needed return to the work of one of Italy's most celebrated and influential auteurs. Antonioni's uncontested status as a modernist master has not been accompanied in recent years by any renewed and invigorating critical interest in his work. Italian art house cinema and its determined obsession with difficult formal and aesthetic questions has, certainly with the ambit of Ita…
Italian Studies: Cultural Studies
Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943 * Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema
Fascism poses problems for historians of Italian cinema. While the work produced during that period is no longer entirely disavowed or discredited, it nevertheless provides an uncomfortable antecedent to the heroic moment of postwar neorealism and cinema's much-vaunted role in national reconstruction. Part of the problem is that fascism, like the advocates of neorealism, believed in the potential of the medium to create a common culture in its au…
Italy's Postcolonial Cinema and its Histories of Representation
A number of recent films have explored migration to Italy. Responses tend to focus on the novelty of this phenomenon in relation to Italian history, and to the history of Italian cinema as a nation building project. I argue, however, that these films need to be seen in terms of how they racialize the non-Italian subject, and that they are embedded in complex histories of Italian colonialism, and emigration. After surveying work on Italian cinema …
Solemn Geographies: Aids and the Contours of Autobiography
(2000). Solemn Geographies: AIDS and the Contours of Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 22-36
Pier Vittorio Tondelli: An Art of the Body in Resistance
Choice Objects: The Bodies of Gabriele d'Annunzio
In recent years the question of gender has become central to debates on culture and cultural history. Grounded in the work done by feminist scholars in the 70s and early 80s, these debates ask different questions regarding the nature of gender itself as it pertains to both men and women, taking neither category as a biological or historical given, and attempting to elucidate the sense of each as it emerges in specific contexts and locations. The …
Dante and the Medieval Other World
Dante and the Medieval Other World
Reading the past - re-writing the present: Anna Banti and Artemisia Gentileschi
Italy's Postcolonial Cinema and its Histories of Representation
A number of recent films have explored migration to Italy. Responses tend to focus on the novelty of this phenomenon in relation to Italian history, and to the history of Italian cinema as a nation building project. I argue, however, that these films need to be seen in terms of how they racialize the non-Italian subject, and that they are embedded in complex histories of Italian colonialism, and emigration. After surveying work on Italian cinema …
Collaging Cultures: Curating Italian Studies
This essay aims to contribute to current debates about how to research and teach within the disciplinary frame of modern languages in light of the knowledge that recent patterns of global migration have made the conventional fusion of national territory and language untenable. The challenge is to reimagine histories of cultural practice and production critically in spite of the national frame that continues to shape our thinking. Starting from th…
Solemn Geographies: Aids and the Contours of Autobiography
(2000). Solemn Geographies: AIDS and the Contours of Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 22-36
Reading the past - re-writing the present: Anna Banti and Artemisia Gentileschi
Reading the past - re-writing the present: Anna Banti and Artemisia Gentileschi
Dante and the Medieval Other World
Dante and the Medieval Other World
Choice Objects: The Bodies of Gabriele d'Annunzio
In recent years the question of gender has become central to debates on culture and cultural history. Grounded in the work done by feminist scholars in the 70s and early 80s, these debates ask different questions regarding the nature of gender itself as it pertains to both men and women, taking neither category as a biological or historical given, and attempting to elucidate the sense of each as it emerges in specific contexts and locations. The …
Pier Vittorio Tondelli: An Art of the Body in Resistance
Solemn Geographies: Aids and the Contours of Autobiography
(2000). Solemn Geographies: AIDS and the Contours of Autobiography. a/b: Auto/Biography Studies: Vol. 15, Autobiographical Que(e)ries, pp. 22-36
Italy's Postcolonial Cinema and its Histories of Representation
A number of recent films have explored migration to Italy. Responses tend to focus on the novelty of this phenomenon in relation to Italian history, and to the history of Italian cinema as a nation building project. I argue, however, that these films need to be seen in terms of how they racialize the non-Italian subject, and that they are embedded in complex histories of Italian colonialism, and emigration. After surveying work on Italian cinema …
Cinema and Fascism: Italian Film and Society, 1922-1943 * Italian Locations: Reinhabiting the Past in Postwar Cinema
Fascism poses problems for historians of Italian cinema. While the work produced during that period is no longer entirely disavowed or discredited, it nevertheless provides an uncomfortable antecedent to the heroic moment of postwar neorealism and cinema's much-vaunted role in national reconstruction. Part of the problem is that fascism, like the advocates of neorealism, believed in the potential of the medium to create a common culture in its au…
Italian Studies: Cultural Studies
Antonioni: Centenary Essays
The centenary of Michelangelo Antonioni's birth in 2012 prompted a much needed return to the work of one of Italy's most celebrated and influential auteurs. Antonioni's uncontested status as a modernist master has not been accompanied in recent years by any renewed and invigorating critical interest in his work. Italian art house cinema and its determined obsession with difficult formal and aesthetic questions has, certainly with the ambit of Ita…
Reading and Writing Italian Homosexuality: A Case of Possible Difference
Derek Duncan's timely study is the first book in English to examine constructions of male homosexuality in Italian literature. In admirably clear and elegant prose, Duncan analyzes texts ranging from the 1890s through the 1990s. He brings canonical authors like D'Annunzio and Pasolini together with under-appreciated writers like Comisso, and also looks at less conventionally literary genres. Duncan takes on the thorny theoretical issues surroundi…
Transnationalizing Modern Languages: The Project Exhibition
‘Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures’ (2014–2017) [TML] was an AHRC-funded research project, one of three large grants awarded under t
Beyond Borders: Transnational Italy
These three short articles investigate how exhibitions function as primary research outputs. They present critical reflections on the preparation and realisation of a series of exhibitions that drew on material produced by a large research team. Written from the perspectives of the professional curators and an academic researcher, the essays set out the theoretical premises of the exhibition as a medium of communication, and research tool. The ex…
Collaging Cultures: Curating Italian Studies
This essay aims to contribute to current debates about how to research and teach within the disciplinary frame of modern languages in light of the knowledge that recent patterns of global migration have made the conventional fusion of national territory and language untenable. The challenge is to reimagine histories of cultural practice and production critically in spite of the national frame that continues to shape our thinking. Starting from th…
Corporealities in Italian Studies
This article illustrates the different shape that discourses of corporeality have taken within the discipline from a chronological perspective. The first section explores how critical frameworks relating to embodiment, performativity and affect expand premodern Italian studies beyond the limited patriarchal canon and better understand ‘performances’ of the Passion by late medieval and early modern women religious as a form of co-suffering that fo…
Transnational perspectives: Pedagogical practices
Peer reviewed
Shades of complicity: Archives of the ‘implicated subject’
Knowledge of the Arandora Star is no longer limited to members of the UK's historic Italian community but is shared by a much larger constituency thanks to the greater accessibility of historical documents relating to the sinking of the ship, and to the substantial volume of new creative work inspired by it. This article examines this expansion of historical memory by following two discrete but entangled strands. The first follows the constructio…
Art (12 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · History (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)