Cecilia Bello

Cecilia Bello is an Associate Professor at Sapienza University of Rome's Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies (SEAI). She specializes in contemporary Italian literature with particular emphasis on 20th-century and early 21st-century poetry, avant-garde movements, and verbovisual/performance poetry. Active in archival research, she directs the Twentieth-Century Archive and founded the Contemporary Poetry Laboratory "Con gli occhi del linguaggio."

• Current courses: Contemporary Italian Literature (first semester 2024-2025) and Contemporary Italian Literature II (second semester 2024-2025)
• Office hours: Wednesdays 11:00-13:00 at Room 413, Department IV floor

Research interests include:

• 20th-century Italian poetry analysis
• Avant-garde and neo-avant-garde studies
• Gender-specific writing approaches
• Word/music/image interactions
• Philological editions of rare texts

Recent publications examine:

• Eliot's influence on Italian poets
• Materiality of poetic texts
• Archival discoveries in the Twentieth-Century Archive
• Structuralist approaches to contemporary verse

Scientific awards:

• National Scientific Qualification (ASN 2018-2020) for First Fascia Professor (Full Professor level)

Research projects include:

• "Anceschi and the Novissimi" (2023-2024) - intellectual correspondence and editorial projects
• "TeCa: Texts and Correspondence from the Twentieth Century" (2022-2024)
• International collaboration "Avant-Garde and Gender Problems" (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)