How to Write the Portrait of a Woman. The Literature of Female Portraiture in Modernism and in Cross-temporal Perspective

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

10/ANGL-01 - English And Anglo-American Studies, 10/ARTE-01 - Art History, 10/COMP-01 - Comparative Literature And Literary Theory

Description

This project explores female portraiture in Euro-American modernism at the intersection of literature and the visual arts, highlighting its role in shaping gender identities. Between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, writers and artists showed a strong interest in women’s social roles, from the Victorian fallen woman to the bohemian figure. From Symbolist and Scapigliatura portraits d’une femme to works by Pound, Eliot, Woolf, Rilke, Lorca, Thomas Mann, and Henry James, the female portrait emerges as an intermedial form marked by productive exchanges between visual and verbal representation. Through a comparative and interart approach, the study examines the “portrait of a lady” across fin-de-siècle and modernist culture, showing how representations of women create a space where image and writing, aesthetic codes, and gender discourse intersect in European cultural history.

Compensation

37,478 Euro

Job posting website

https://lavorainateneo.unito.it/index_ir.html?type=SEL_IDR

Number of positions

1

Maximum duration

12.0

Funding body

Università di Torino

How to apply

https://pica.cineca.it/unito/sum-2026-iii/

Selection process