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Dr Luisa Cal猫

Positions held:
  • Professor of Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
  • Research Lead, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
  • Overview

    Overview

    Biography

    I am a Professor of Romantic and Nineteenth-Century Literature and Visual Culture. I joined 糖心logo入口 in 2004. I was educated in Italy (Rome, Genoa), moved to Britain with a fellowship from the Accademia dei Lincei in 1997, then took an M.St. and a D.Phil at the University of Oxford, and subsequently held a postdoctoral fellowship at University College Oxford. My teaching career started in Italy as an Erasmus Language instructor under the European Union Lingua programme; when I moved to the UK I taught Italian at the University of Oxford, before switching to English Literature.听

    I work on the visual and material cultures of literature in the Romantic Period, practices of reading, viewing, and collecting that dismantle the book聽and question its function as a support for reading, and on critical disciplinarity. My research reconstructs a hybrid history of the book that subverts distinctions between book parts and artworks. I have published on how literature is reinvented through galleries of pictures; the visual reinvention of Dante's Commedia; William Blake and his reception in Italy; altered editions of Shakespeare, Walpole, Blake, and Dickens.听

    My research has been funded by the Wingate Fundation, University College Oxford, the Huntington Library, the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale, the Yale Center for British Art, and most recently the Leverhulme Trust.


    Highlights

    • , special issue of聽Studies in Romanticism, co-edited with Marianne Brooker.

      'The Book Unbound: Material Cultures of Reading and Collecting, c.1750-1850', funded by the Leverhulme Trust, described in聽.听

    Administrative responsibilities

    • Research Lead, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication (2023-2026)

    Professional memberships

    • Fellow,

    Honours and awards

    • Research Fellowship , December 2019
    • Travel Grant , December 2019
    • Mercator Fellow, 2018-19, Journal Forschergruppe Journalliteratur , December 2018
    • Visiting Fellowship , December 2010
    • Visiting Fellowship , December 2007
    • Visiting Fellowship , February 2003
    • Junior Research Fellowship , December 2001
    • Doctoral Grant Wingate Foundation, December 1998
    • Vaciago Prize , December 1997
    • Senior Scholarship , December 1998

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  • Research

    Research

    Research interests

    • Romantic literature and visual culture
    • material texts and history of the book
    • history of collecting
    • critical disciplinarity
    • print culture
    • Romantic period translations and adaptations

    Research overview

    I work on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature, visual, and material culture. My research defamiliarizes the book as a support for reading, unveiling a range of practices in which reading and writing intersect with practices of viewing and collecting as part of an intermedial poetics that cuts across current disciplines and divisions of knowledge. I am interested in questions of intermedial translation and adaptation, multisensorial cultural practices, Romantic aesthetics, and critical disciplinarity. Thinking about practices of composition that connect the page to the gallery wall, the imaginary museum and the museum of words, my work offers new interpretations of Horace Walpole, William Blake, Henry Fuseli, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, and John Milton, among others.

    My new project is about Exodus and Visual Storytelling. I published a pilot essay on Blake's watercolour聽笔别蝉迟颈濒别苍肠别听and the politics of feeling in 聽(2022). The next steps of this project will address visual storytelling in individual images, series, and extra-illustrated Bibles, exploring how different material formats and practices open up alternative dynamics of sympathy.

    I am completing a project entitled 鈥楾he Book Unbound鈥, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which explores practices of reading and collecting that question, subvert, or dismantle the book as a cultural form, including Walpole, Blake, and Dickens. In this area I have published essays on Blake, '', '', '', and co-edited a special issue of Studies in Romanticism on .听

    On the visual culture of reading and the emergence of exhibitions,聽I have published (Oxford University Press, 2006); 'Leigh Hunt's Paper Gallery: Reading Spenser through the Old Masters in 1833 and 1844',聽La Questione Romantica聽(2013); ,聽Tate Papers, 24 (Autumn 2015); 'On the Dynamics of Periodical Illustration: the 'Cornhill Magazine' from Monthly to Codex to Gallery' (2022).

    On reading and intermediality, I have co-edited (Ashgate 2007), which contains my essay on Tom Phillips and Peter Greenaway鈥檚 Dante, a special issue of聽19聽on聽print culture, and <a href="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9780230221970" data-mce-href="https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/

  • Supervision and teaching

    Supervision and teaching

    Supervision

    Supervisions within 糖心logo入口:
    6

    I welcome graduate applications in Romantic period literature聽and visual and/or material culture;

    • cultures of reading and collecting, material texts, and history of the book 1750-1850;
    • nineteenth-century periodical culture;
    • adaptations and translations;
    • critical disciplinarity.

    Current doctoral researchers

    • ELEANOR FRANZEN
      Nature of supervision:
      JOINT PRINCIPAL SUPERVISOR,
      Title of thesis:
      Literary Roles for Women with Histories of Transactional Sex in Britain, 1758-1830

    Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

    • JAMES LESSLIE
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor
      Title of thesis:
      Feminine conceptions of and interactions with wild nature, 1750-1815
      Awarded:
      2020
    • MARIANNE BROOKER
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor
      Awarded:
      2021
    • GERRIE VAN NOORD
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor,
      Title of thesis:
      The Fringes Publications on Art: Intersections of the Curatorial, the Translational and the Authorial
      Awarded:
      2021
    • REES ARNOTT-DAVIES
      Nature of supervision:
      Principal Supervisor
      Title of thesis:
      'Romantic Assemblages: the museum, reproducibility, and Romantic Hellenism'.
      Awarded:
      2018
    • ALEXIS WOLF
      Nature of supervision:
      Joint Principal Supervisor
      Title of thesis:
      The Life Writing of Katherine and Martha Wilmot: A Study of Self-Education, Agency and International Exploration in Women's Travel Narratives, 1801-1808.
      Awarded:
      2018

    Teaching

    I teach on BA English, BA Liberal Arts, and MA Victorian Studies.

    Teaching modules

    • The Book Unbound
    • Literature and Visual Culture
    • Connecting the Arts
    • The Novel: Writing the Modern World
    • Literature, Empire and Race
    • Modernising Victorians
    • Writing London
    • Becoming Modern: Literature and Culture 1800 to the Present
  • Publications

    Publications

    Article

    • Cal猫, Luisa (2026) . Litteraria Pragensia 71 (36), pp. 93-119. ISSN 0862-8424.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2024) . 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 36, ISSN 1755-1560.
    • Cale, Luisa (2023) . Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 57 (1), ISSN 0160-628X.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2022) . Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 55 (3), ISSN 0160-628x.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2022) . European Romantic Review 33 (4), pp. 515-533. ISSN 1050-9585.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2022) . Modern Philology 120 (1), pp. 24-48. ISSN 0026-8232.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2021) . Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 55 (1), ISSN 0160-628x.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2020) . Eighteenth-Century Life 44 (2), pp. 111-135. ISSN 0098-2601.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2020) . Studies in Romanticism 59 (1), pp. 45-69. ISSN 0039-3762.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2020) . Studies in Romanticism 59 (4), pp. 431-445. ISSN 0039-3762.
    • Cal猫, Luisa and Evangelista, S. (2018) . Word and Image 34 (1), pp. 17-31. ISSN 0266-6286.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2017) . Huntington Library Quarterly 80 (3), pp. 453-479. ISSN 0018-7895.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2017) . Word & Image 33 (3), pp. 279-291. ISSN 0266-6286.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2015) . La Questione Romantica 5 (1-2), pp. 31-50. ISSN 1125 - 0364.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2015) . Tate Papers 24, ISSN 1753-9854.
    • Cal猫, Luisa and Parejo Vadillo, Ana (2015) . 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 21, ISSN 1755-1560.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2012) . European Romantic Review 23 (4), pp. 524-531. ISSN 1050-9585.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2011) . Eighteenth-Century Studies 45 (1), pp. 105-125. ISSN 0013-2586.
    • Cal猫, Luisa and Craciun, A. (2011) . Eighteenth-Century Studies 45 (1), pp. 1-13. ISSN 0013-2586.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2010) . Yearbook of English Studies 40 (1/2), pp. 8-32. ISSN 0306-2473.
    • Cal猫, Luisa and Di Bello, Patrizia (2007) . 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 5, ISSN 1755-1560.
    • Cal猫, Luisa and Di Bello, Patrizia (2007) . 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 5, ISSN 1755-1560.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2007) . Romanticism On The Net 46, ISSN 1467-1255.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2006) . 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 3, ISSN 1755-1560.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2004) . Comparative Critical Studies 1 (1-2), pp. 97-118. ISSN 1744-1854.

    Book

    • Cal猫, Luisa and Di Bello, Patrizia, eds. (2010) . Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 9780230221970.
    • Braida, A. and Cal猫, Luisa, eds. (2007) . Farnham, UK: Ashgate. ISBN 9780754658962.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2006) . Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199267385.

    Book review

    • Cal猫, Luisa (2020) .

    Book section

    • Cal猫, Luisa (2023) . In: Martindale, C. and Prettejohn, E. and 脴stermark-Johanssen, L. (eds.) Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 198-215. ISBN 9781108835893.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2021) . In: Beck, A. and Mergenthaler, V. (eds.) Journal盲hnliche B眉cher, buchf枚rmige Journale -- Journal-like Books, Book-shaped Journals. Pfennig-Magazin zur Journalliteratur. Hannover, Germany: Wehrhahn. pp. 121. ISBN 9783865259349.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2020) . In: Lynch, D. and Gillespie, A. (eds.) The Unfinished Book. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198830801.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2019) . In: Haggarty, S. (ed.) William Blake in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 56-69. ISBN 9781107144910.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2019) . In: Haywood, I. and Matthews, S. and Shannon, M. (eds.) Romanticism and Illustration. Studies in Romanticism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 221-242. ISBN 9781108425711.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2018) . In: Bruder, H. and Connolly, T. (eds.) Beastly Blake. Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave. pp. 153-181. ISBN 9783319897875.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2017) . In: Martin, L. and Brink, C. (eds.) Alles In Allem: Die Gedankenwelt des mystischen Philosophen Jacob B枚hme. Dresden, Germany: Sandstein Verlag f眉r Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. pp. 151-165. ISBN 9783954983339.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2016) . In: Craciun, A. and Schaffer, S. (eds.) The Material Culture of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment. Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 235-254. ISBN 9781137445797.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2012) . In: Bruder, H. and Connolly, T.J. (eds.) Blake, Gender and Culture. The Body, Gender and Culture. London: Pickering and Chatto. pp. 133-143. ISBN 9781848933040.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2011) . In: Thornton, S. and Gillard-Estrada, A.F. (eds.) Circulation and transfer of key scenes in nineteenth-century literature. Cahiers Charles V. Paris, France: Institut d'e虂tudes anglophones, Universite虂 Paris Diderot. pp. 85-106. ISBN 9782902937479.
    • Tilley, Heather (2010) . In: Cal猫, Luisa and Di Bello, Patrizia (eds.) Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Culture. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230221970.
    • Fraser, Hilary (2010) . In: Cal猫, Luisa and Di Bello, Patrizia (eds.) Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Cultures. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. pp. ix-xv. ISBN 9780230221970.
    • Fraser, Hilary (2009) . In: Di Bello, Patrizia and Cal猫, Luisa (eds.) Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Literary and Visual Culture. Palgrave Studies in Nineteenth-Century Writing and Culture. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. ix-xv. ISBN 9780230221970.
    • Mills, Victoria (2009) . In: Cal猫, Luisa and Di Bello, Patrizia (eds.) Illustrations, Optics and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Visual and Literary Cultures. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave. pp. 147-166. ISBN 9780230221970.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2009) . In: Orestano, F. and Frigerio, F. (eds.) Strange Sisters: Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century. Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship between the Arts. New York, U.S.: Peter Lang. pp. 13-26. ISBN 9783039118403.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2008) . In: Haggarty, S. and Mee, J. (eds.) Blake and Conflict. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 185-209. ISBN 9780230573871.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2007) . In: Braida, A. and Cal猫, Luisa (eds.) Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. pp. 177-192. ISBN 9780754658962.
    • Cal猫, Luisa and Braida, A. (2007) . In: Braida, A. and Cal猫, Luisa (eds.) Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts. Farnham, UK: Ashgate. pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780754658962.
    • Braida, A. and Cal猫, Luisa (2007) . In: Braida, A. and Cal猫, Luisa (eds.) Dante on View: The Reception of Dante in the Visual and Performing Arts. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 1-13. ISBN 9780754658962.
    • Cal猫, Luisa (2003) . In: Bardazzi, G. and Grosrichard, A. (eds.) D茅nouement des Lumi猫res et Invention Romantique. Histoire des Id茅es et Critique Litt茅raire. Geneva, Switzerland: Drosz. pp. 231-246. ISBN 9782600008372.
    • Cal猫, Luisa . In: Paley, M. and Erle, S. (eds.) The Reception of William Blake in Europe. The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe. London, UK: Bloomsbury. pp. 125-154. ISBN 9781472507457.

    Editorial

    • Cal猫, Luisa and Brooker, Marianne (2020) . Studies in Romanticism 49 (1), pp. 1-13. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISSN 0039-3762.

    Other

    • Cal猫, Luisa and Parejo Vadillo, Ana Cale, Luisa and Parejo Vadillo, Ana, eds. (2015) . 2015 (21), London, UK: The Open Library of Humanities.