Brizio-Skov, Flavia
Flavia Brizio-Skov
Flavia Brizio-Skov received her early education in public schools in Savona, Italy, her B.A. from the University of Genoa, Italy, and her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle, in Comparative Literature. She joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee in 1988, immediately after completion of her doctoral studies.
She has received numerous research awards and grants and has participated in many conferences. Since 1995 she has been the Campus Director for the Cooperative Exchange Program between UT and the University of Genoa, Italy, organizing trips of UT faculty members to Genoa, of Genoa students to UT, and organizing two International Seminars, one in Genoa and one at UT.
She has been invited to lecture at various international conferences (Genoa, Lisbon), and at national institutions (Bryn Mawr College, The Catholic University of America, Kennesaw State University); in Fall 2004 she was the Director of the UT Semester in Wales, Swansea, UK; since Fall 2004 she has been a member of the Editorial Board for the journal Studies in European Cinema, University of Wales, UK and for the Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies for many years.
She has been a reader for the University of Toronto Press, Forum Italicum, The Modern Language Journal, Heinle & Heinle, and Houghton Mifflin. Professor Brizio-Skov’s research has touched on a variety of areas as her three monographs, one edited volume and numerous articles show. She has worked on contemporary literature, critical theory, postmodernism, metafiction, metahistory, cultural studies and cinema. Her research deals with popular culture in the Italian cinema of the postwar period and in genre cinema. She teaches courses on a variety of topics related to 20th century Italy, dealing with literature, cultural studies, social history, and cinema; she also teaches a special topics course in Italian Cinema every spring for Cinema Studies, and in Fall she teaches Introduction to World Cinema for Cinema Studies.
Publications
Books
- New Project: “New Italian Detective TV Series: Constructing and Deconstructing Elusive Dialogues of National Identities.”
- Ride the Frontier: Exploring the Myth of the American West on Screen, McFarland Publishers forthcoming Fall 2020. (100,000 words)
- Popular Italian Cinema: Culture and Politics in a Postwar Society. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011. 1-320. (Chief Editor, Introduction, and Two Chapters)
- Reconstructing Societies in the Aftermath of War: Memory, Identity, and Reconciliation. Editor. Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, 2004. 1-366. (Chief Editor, Introduction and One Chapters)
- Antonio Tabucchi: navigazioni in un arcipelago narrativo. Cosenza: Pellegrini, 2002. 1-272.
- La scrittura e la memoria: Lalla Romano. Milano: Selene Edizioni, 1993.1-195.
Articles and Book Chapters
- “A Western novel Italian Style: Matteo Righetto’s The Soul of the Border.” In preparation.
- “Musica, amore e pallottole: Ammore e Malavita dei fratelli Manetti,” accepted for publication in Italica, forthcoming in volume 97. 2 (Summer 2020). (5,643 words)
- “Transnationalism and the Italian Western,”, MIFLC Review, Vol. 19 (Fall 2018- 2019): 1-9. (2,669 words)
- “L’universo tabucchiano tra letteratura e tempo,” accepted for publication, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. Forthcoming Spring 2021. (Chapter; 3,330 words)
- “Visioni circolari di Antonio Tabucchi: Per Isabel. Un mandala,” in Tabucchi Postumo. Thea Rimini ed. Bruxelles, Belgium: Peter Lang, 2017. Pp. 85-92. (Chapter; 3,000 words)
- “Forum: The Present State and Likely Prospects of Italian Cinema and Cinema Studies,” (with Flavia Laviosa, Millicent Marcus, Alan O’Leary, Massimo Riva, Pasquale Verdicchio, and Christopher Wagstaff), A Companion to Italian Cinema. Frank Burke ed. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, April 2017. Pp. 553-571. (Chapter)
- “Il passo del diavolo di Anthony Mann e la ‘questione Indiana,’” in Iperstoria– Testi. Letterature, Linguaggi, Sezione monografica: Native American Studies ieri e oggi: una prospettiva transdisciplinare, Numero IX, Issue 9 (Spring 2017): 44-54, http://www.iperstoria.it/joomla/ (6,043 words)
- “Antonio Tabucchi, la letteratura e il tempo,” in, Antonio Tabucchi: un baule di personaggi by Gianmarco Gallotta. Neuville sur Saône, France: Chemins de Traverse, Coll. Chemins italiques, Sept. 2016. Pp. 11-32. (Chapter; 6,579 words)
- “Examples of National and Transnational Cinema: Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo and Sergio Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars,” in Cultural and Religious Studies, Vol. 4, Number 3 (March 2016): 141-160. (13,439 words)
- “Novelistic westerns of the 1950s” in Luci e Ombre, No.2, Anno II (Marzo-Giugno 2014): 82-117. (13,860 words)
- “Spaghetti Westerns and Their Audience,” in The Italian Cinema Book, ed. Peter Bondanella. London: BFI-Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013. Pp. 181-187. (Chapter)
- “Esiste un nuovo cinema politico italiano oggi?” in Incontri cinematografici e culturali tra due mondi. Ed. Antonio Vitti. Pesaro: Metauro Edizioni, 2012. Pp. 329-349. (Chapter)
- “Per una rassegna della nuova letteratura gialla italiana” in Campi Immaginabili, vol. 40/41, numbers I/II (2010): 391-402.
- “Histoire, Littérature et Ontologie dans l’oeuvre d’Antonio Tabucchi – Storia, Letteratura e Ontologia nell’opera di Antonio Tabucchi,” in Pour Tabucchi-Les Rencontres de Fontevraud – Colloque littéraire. Deville, P. ed. Saint Nazaire Cedex, France: Maisons des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs, 2009. 176-215. (Chapter)
- “Table Rotonde: Rapport d’Antonio Tabucchi à l’histoire, au politique,” in Pour Tabucchi-Les Rencontres de Fontevraud – Colloque littéraire. Deville, P. ed. Saint Nazaire Cedex, France: Maisons des Écrivains Étrangers et des Traducteurs, 2009. 115-131. (Chapter)
- “Mario Verdone: una vita per il cinema,” in Omaggio a Mario Verdone – Il lettore di provincia, ed. Eusebio Ciccotti. Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 2008. Year XXXIX, vol. 131. 83-89. (Chapter)
- “Si sta facendo sempre più tardi, Autobiografie altrui e Tristano Muore di Antonio Tabucchi: dove va il romanzo?” Italica, vol. 83, numbers 3 and 4 (2006): 660-690.
- “Ri-lettura del primo dopoguerra: alcuni esempi,” in Incontri con il cinema italiano. Ed. Antonio Vitti. Caltanisetta: Sciascia Editore, 2003. 135-157. (Chapter)
- “Tabucchi Microhistorian and Metahistorian,” in Antonio Tabucchi: geografia de um escritor inquieto. Ed. Maria José de Lancastre. Lisbon, Portugal: Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, 2001.63-87. (Chapter)
- “Antonio Tabucchi e il ruolo dell’intellettuale,” Incontri – Rivista europea di studi italiani 16.3-4 (2001): 180-194. (Amsterdam: Holland University Press).
- “Sostiene Pereira di Antonio Tabucchi: cultura e dittatura nel Portogallo di Salazar,” Storia e memoria. Genova: Istituto Ligure per la Storia della Resistenza Anno 9. 1 (1mo Semestre 2000): 127-141.
- “Immagine e scrittura nella narrativa di Lalla Romano,” in I segni incrociati – Letteratura italiana del ‘900 e arte figurativa. Ed. Marcello Ciccuto. Lucca, Italy: Mauro Baroni Editore, 1998. 499-513. (Chapter)
- “Ultimi sviluppi critici sulla narrativa tabucchiana,” Quaderni d’Italianistica XVIII. 1 (Primavera 1997): 93-100.
- “Tabucchi: últimos desenvolvimentos da crítica,” La ricerca VIII. 12 (1997): 69-80. (Translated into Portuguese, Araraquara, Brazil.)
- “Sostiene Pereira: The Crisis of the Intellectual between History and Literature,” Spunti e Ricerche 12 (1996/97): 186-201. (Melbourne University, Australia.)
- “La narrativa di Antonio Tabucchi,” La ricerca VII.11 (1996): 121-129. (Translated into Portuguese, Araraquara, Brazil.)
- “Rosetta Loy e Lalla Romano: ritratto di due scrittrici contemporanee,” Rivista di Studi Italiani XIV.2 (1996): 206-212.
- “Del fantástico al postmoderno: Requiem de Antonio Tabucchi,” La Página 15.1 (1994): 33-52. (Translated into Spanish, Barcelona, Spain.)
- “La narrativa postmoderna de Antonio Tabucchi,” La Página 15.1 (1994): 3-17. (Translated into Spanish, Barcelona, Spain.)
- “Dal fantastico al postmoderno: Requiem di Antonio Tabucchi,” Italica 71.1 (1994): 96-115.
- “La narrativa postmoderna di Antonio Tabucchi,” Filologia Antica e Moderna 4. 1 (1993): 249-266.
- “I sogni infecondi di Rosetta Loy,” Romance Languages Annual (1993): 162-168.
- “Tempo e strategie narrative ne Le strade di polvere di Rosetta Loy,” Quaderni d’Italianistica XIII.1 (1992): 71-83.
- “Le donne e il femminismo di Rosetta Loy: La Bicicletta,” Romance Languages Annual, Vol. 3 (1991): 160-166.
- “Alla ricerca del passato: L’estate di Letuquè di Rosetta Loy,” Romance Languages Annual (1990): 194-199.
- “Memory and Time in Lalla Romano’s La penombra che abbiamo attraversato and Le parole tra noi leggere,” in Contemporary Women Writers in Italy: A Modern Renaissance. Ed. Sante Arico. Amherst, MA: Massachusetts University Press, 1990. 62-75. (Chapter)
Reviews
- Rev. of Fellini’s Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodernism. By Frank Burke, Bistol, UK: Intellect, 2020. Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, forthcoming January 2021. (2,831 words)
- Rev. of Attraverso Tabucchi – Viaggio nell’opera di Antonio Tabucchi. Alessandro Iovinelli, Roma: Novecentolibri, 2018. Pp. 7-175. Campi Immaginabili, n. 60-61, Dec. 2019, pp. 444-448.
(2,401 words) - Rev. of Spaghetti Westerns at the Crossroads – Studies in Relocation, Transition and Appropriation. Austin Fisher, ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2016. Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies, Vol. 7:1, Nov. 2018. Pp. 164-167. (2,000 words)
- Rev. of Male Anxiety and Psychopathology in Film: Comedy Italian Style. By Andrea Bini, New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015. Italian Culture, Vol. 35, No. 2 (September 2017): 147-50. (1,629 words)
- Rev. of Ercole, il Divo. Dall’antica Grecia al cinema italiano degli anni Sessanta. By Maria Elena D’Amelio, Italian Culture, Vol. 32, No. 1 (March 2014): 72-75. (1,388 words)
- Rev. of Socially Symbolic Acts – The Historicizing Fictions of Umberto Eco, Vincenzo Consolo, and Antonio Tabucchi. By Joseph Francese, Italica, Vol.85, No. 4 (2008): 507-09.
- Rev. of Il profumo notturno del gelsomino, by Umberto Gugliotta, Il Mercantile, Genova, May 2006.
- Rev. of Il dibattito sul postmoderno in Italia. By Monica Jansen. Campi immaginabili 30-31. I-II (2004): 340-343.
- Rev. of I miti e il sacro, by Giorgio Bárberi Squarotti. Annali d’Italianistica 22 (2004): 557-561.
- Rev. of Antonio Tabucchi. By Claudio Pezzin; AA. VV. Dedica a Antonio Tabucchi, ed. Claudio Cattaruzza. Forum Italicum 35.2 (Fall 2001): 600-603.
- Rev. of Plotting the Past. By Cristina Della Colletta; 20th -Century Italian Women Writers, by Alba Amoia. Annali d’Italianistica 16 (1998): 424-428.
- Rev. of Guida alla Lettura. Requiem.By Antonio Tabucchi, ed. Franca Mariani; Introduzione e analisi del testo: Sostiene Pereira, ed. Bruno Ferraro; Introduzione a Notturno Indiano, ed. Anna Dolfi; Conversazione con Antonio Tabucchi. Dove va il romanzo? eds. Paola Gaglione and Marco Cassini; Conversaciones con Antonio Tabucchi. By Carlos Gumper Melgosa. Italian Culture 14 (1996): 409- 414.
- Rev. of Il realismo impopolare di Pier Paolo Pasolini. By Joseph Francese. Italian Culture 12 (1996): 305-307.
- Rev. of Il ciclo dei “Vinti” da Verga a De Roberto. By Frank Ignazio Caldarone. Italica 71. 3 (1994): 416-417.
- Rev. of Varianti sconosciute di Il seme sotto la neve di Ignazio Silone, by Vincenza Tudini. Italian Culture 11 (1993): 415-416.
- Rev. of Racconti del Novecento: Realtà Regionali. By Claudio Mazzola and J. T. Olken. Modern Language Journal 76. 1 (1991): 109.
- Rev. of In terza pagina.By Robyn Pickering-Iazzi and Lawrence Baldassarro. Modern Language Journal 74. 2 (1990): 248-249.
Phone: 865-974-7007
Email: fbrizio@utk.edu
Personal Website: brizio.utk.edu
Education
PhD, Washington University