Associate Professor Valentina Gosetti

Associate Professor in French | ARC DECRA (2021-2024) - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Valentina Gosetti

Phone: +61 02 6773 4341

Email: vgosetti@une.edu.au

Building: E11

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Biography

Valentina Gosetti (she/elle/lei) is originally from Collio di Vobarno, a small town in the province of Brescia, in northern Italy, not far from Lake Garda. After attending the Liceo “Enrico Fermi” in Salò (Italy), she completed a Diploma di Laurea in French and English at the University of Bologna (Italy); and then an MSt and a DPhil in French at Balliol College in the University of Oxford (UK). She has also been a pensionnaire étrangère at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, rue d’Ulm, and an intern at UNESCO’s Headquarters in Paris. Before joining UNE, she held the Kathleen Bourne Junior Research Fellowship in French and Comparative Literature at St Anne’s College in the University of Oxford (UK). Before that she was a College Lecturer at Trinity College and Balliol College (University of Oxford, UK).

Most of her research so far has been aimed at revaluing the contribution of lesser-known poets, authors, and languages with the longer-term plan to achieve a fairer, more inclusive, and representative literary canon. Her main research interests include nineteenth-century French poetry, especially by authors from the provinces of France, poetry by women, poetry translation, poetry in the lesser-spoken languages of Europe, and the development of prose poetry.

Valentina Gosetti is the recipient of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award from the Australian Research Council for a project entitled Provincial Poets and the Making of a Nation (DE200101206). The aim of this project is to rediscover prominent regional poetic voices swept aside by the powerful centralising forces constructing national identity in nineteenth-century France. In doing so, the hope is to reach a more positive and empowering view of provincialism and to challenge the dated division between central and peripheral cultures. As part of this project, Valentina is writing a book provisionally entitled Poetry in the Provinces, which is now under contract with Liverpool University Press.

Valentina Gosetti authored Aloysius Bertrand’s ‘Gaspard de la Nuit’: Beyond the Prose Poem (Legenda, 2016), co-edited, with Alistair Rolls, Still Loitering: Australian Essays in Honour of Ross Chambers (Peter Lang, 2020), and co-edited and translated with Andrea Bedeschi and Adriano Marchetti the bilingual anthology Donne: Poeti di Francia e oltre dal Romanticismo a oggi (Ladolfi). With her co-author Daniel A. Finch-Race she edited a double issue of the scholarly nineteenth-century French studies journal Dix-neuf on ‘Ecoregions’ (2019), received two grants from the Open World Research Initiative for public events in Bristol (UK) and Sydney (Australia) and is now under contract to write The Cambridge Introduction to Women’s Poetry in French (Cambridge University Press). With Patrick McGuinness she co-edits the Oxford Peter Lang book series “Romanticism and After in France”.

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