DrMarco Bellardi

Marco Bellardi is Lecturer / Assistant Professor in Italian Studies and Cinema. He currently serves as Head of Italian and as Director of the UCD Foundation for Italian Studies. He is specialised in 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, comparative literature, film studies, narratology and intermediality. He earned his BA and MA in Modern Humanities at the University of Milan and graduated with a thesis on the novels and short stories of Giuseppe Pontiggia, a writer he has continued to work on in subsequent years. He then moved to the University of Birmingham, where he obtained his PhD in 2018 with a dissertation on the influence of film form on 20th-century literature. This work is currently being expanded and will soon be published with the title The Cinematic Mode in Twentieth-Century Fiction. Before joining UCD, he was Teaching Fellow in Italian at Trinity College Dublin from 2018 to 2021. 

Dr Bellardi welcomes applications from PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers with interests in contemporary Italian literature, cinema, and comparative literary studies. Possible lines of enquiry include, but are not limited to, literary and cinematic realism, modernism and postmodernism, adaptation, intermediality, gender studies, and prison narratives.