Author: sara.desimone@sns.it

  • Alternative Selves – video #1

    Alternative Selves – video #1

    In these last couple of months we asked some of the PhD students and researchers involved in INCH to tell us what they thought of the last two cycles of our seminar – on the theme “Alternative Selves”. We chose to do this through video, which has been – unfortunately – a lingering necessity in…

  • Odyssean Greyhounds

    Odyssean Greyhounds

    by Marie Shelton, University of Notre Dame The summer before I started college, I quit my job and boarded a Greyhound from San Diego to Boston. The journey took two and a half days. I stopped in LA, Vegas, Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and New York to refuel. When I…

  • Mr. Ripley and the Banality of Talent

    Mr. Ripley and the Banality of Talent

    [Patricia Highsmith, The Talented Mr. Ripley, 1955] Maria ApostolidouUniversity of Ioannina    Coming across The Talented Mr. Ripley for the first time, the unsuspecting reader might anticipate a story about a central character named Ripley or, in other words, a novel that focuses on the life and opinions of a specific person. As the reading progresses, however, the reader’s…

  • Fighting the Circle

    Fighting the Circle

    Thoughts on Displacement in Britten’s Owen Wingrave Bianca De MarioUniversità degli Studi di Milano 1971, May 16th. Owen Wingrave, an opera for television composed by Benjamin Britten, directed by Brian Large and Colin Graham and produced by John Culshaw, is broadcast on BBC Two England. Much like The Turn of the Screw the subject was inspired by an unusual…

  • I know where I’m going

    I know where I’m going

    A poem by Paul Cunningham, inspired by the movie I know where I’m going! (1945) by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The movie was scheduled during INCH latest workshop on the theme of “Dispaced Selves”. You can find the italian translation at the bottom of the post . I Know Where I’m Going by Paul…

  • COMPASS: our journal is born!

    COMPASS: our journal is born!

    We are happy to announce the birth of our journal! Compass is a multidisciplinary and multilingual online journal that collects the ideas and experiences of PhDs, researchers and professors on an annual theme. Compass is born within the experience of INCH (International Network for Comparative Humanities) but is also directed to all scholars as well as non-academics with an interest in…