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

Phone: +61 02 6773 4341

Email: vgosetti@une.edu.au

Twitter: @GosettiV

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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”.

Qualifications

Diploma di Laurea (cum laude, Bologna), MSt (Oxon), DPhil (Oxon)

Teaching Areas

Translation and Translation Theory

French language

French literature

Comparative Literature

2017: School of Arts Teaching Award for Teaching Excellence in the Languages, University of New England, Armidale

2019: Nomination for a Faculty Citizenship for Achievement in Research, Education and Service (CARES) Award in recognition of exceptional and sustained performance in the areas of teaching, research and service.

Funded Projects (selected)

2020-23: Gosetti, V. DE200101206 — Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC DECRA) : Provincial Poets and the Making of a Nation. ($333,374.00)

This project aims to rediscover, document and analyse prominent regional voices swept aside by the powerful forces constructing national identity in nineteenth-century France in order to argue for a more positive view of provincialism and challenge the division between central and peripheral cultures. Expected outcomes of this project include a more inclusive and representative literary canon, a new awareness of the crucial role of regional poets in the formation of the modern nation state, a new and advanced 'transregional' theoretical framework to revalue the potential of locality and place, as well as a wealth of novel evidence in support of public debates aimed at bridging the urban-rural divide in Australia, France and beyond. Find out more about this project here.

2019: Gosetti, V., Finch-Race, D.A., Small Grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Open World Research Initiative on ‘Language Acts and Worldmaking': Multilingual Poetry Translation as a Catalyst for Change: Revaluing the “Diversity Within” Part 2. ($2,000 ca)
Gosetti, Finch-Race, D.A., Small Grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council's Open World Research Initiative on ‘Language Acts and Worldmaking': Multilingual Poetry Translation as a Catalyst for Change: Revaluing the “Diversity Within” / European-Australian Connections in an Industrial World. ($2,000 ca)

Research Interests

Most of my 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. My main research interests include nineteenth-century French poetry, especially by authors from the provinces of France, and the development of prose poetry.

I am also interested in comparative literature, French-speaking women poets, and poetry translation, especially into the lesser-spoken languages of Europe. As a native speaker of Bresciano, I am the creator of Transferre, a blog about translation of poetry in verse or prose, from any language into any language, standard or not, with a particular focus on endangered local languages. The idea is to encourage poetry in translation for the preservation and the promotion of minority languages. I have edited and translated, with Adriano Marchetti and Andrea Bedeschi, the volume Donne: Poeti di Francia e oltre dal Romanticismo ad oggi (2017), a bilingual anthology (French-Italian) of French-speaking women poets from Romanticism to the present day.

I am very happy to supervise research projects related to my research interests.