Domenicangela Lina Unali

Domenicangela Lina Unali

Lina Unali in 2015
Born Domenicangela Unali
(1936-11-18) November 18, 1936
Rome, Italy
Occupation Novelist, autobiographical writer, university professor, literary critic
Nationality Italian
Education Sapienza University of Rome
Genre fiction, poetry
Notable works La Sardegna del Desiderio
Notable awards Premio Alghero Donna (1995)

Domenicangela Lina Unali (Rome, 1936) has been Professor of English Literature at the Faculty of Letters, University of Rome Tor Vergata since 1983. Previously, from 1969 to 1982, she taught at the University of Cagliari. She was Secretary and Treasurer of AISNA (Italian Association for North American Studies) in the years 1971-1973.[1]

Career

Born in Rome on November 18, 1936, her parents came from Logudor in North-Eastern Sardinia. Her ancestors, on her mother's side, had the family name Morla, and had been in Mallorca since at least 1680 before transferring to Sardinia. One novel by Unali is about General Thomas Morla (1751-1811) whom her family considered an ancestor.[2]

Both her father, Gen. Eugenio Unali,[3] and her mother Maria Pinna daughter of Giuseppina Salaris Morla and of the painter Salvatorico Pinna from the Belle Arti Academy (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma of Via Ripetta in Rome), were born in Pozzomaggiore. Her Sardinian origins has been relevant in her life and studies. She is now listed among the authors of contemporary Sardinian literature.[4] she is the author of an online Logudorese-Italian Glossary, published by Babylon,[5] mainly based on her mother’s language as she remembered it after her death.

Unali has combined scientific research with the writing of poetry and narratives. She published her first narrative, La Sardegna del Desiderio (Sardinia of Desire) in (1991).[6] She received the Alghero Donna National Prize for works of narrative in 1995,[7] the Parola di Donna Prize for works of poetry in 2002 and the same prize for fiction in 2003.[8] At Cagliari, in 2013 she received a special mention in the Fernando Pilia Literary Award for criticism.[9] The book The West in Asia and Asia in the West: Essays on Transnational Interactions is dedicated in tribute to the professional and academic achievements of Unali.[10]

Unali was engaged in research on the relationship between Asia and West. She published the book Talk Story in Chinatown and Away (1998) based on the Conference of the Association of American Studies in Warsaw to which she contributed with a Panel, . Later on, in the year 2000, the essay "'Complexity is not a Crime': Marianne Moore’s Cultural Poetics" by Eulalia Piñero C. Gil, from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, quoting Unali, defined her scholarly profile as both that of an Americanist and of a Sinologist. [11]

A student of Agostino Lombardo at Sapienza University of Rome [12] and an assistant for several years in the Institute then directed by Mario Praz, she continued her studies in the United States with a Fulbright scholarship [13] (1961–62) at the University of Washington in Seattle, where she attended classes on poetry held by Theodore Roethke and in the second semester, moved to the Department of English of Harvard University. Later, she obtained a Fulbright visiting professorship (1972–73) at Harvard University, under the sponsorship of Joel Porte.

In the years 1961-62, she shared her American experience with the economist Pierangelo Garegnani (then at M.I.T. with a Rockefeller Fellowship), whom she married in 1964.

Under the patronage of Jawaharlal Nehru University, she did research on intercultural relations between England and India in the years from 1981 to 1985. She obtained a Fellowship from the Taiwan Academy of Science that engaged her for one year in research and teaching, directing in particular her attention to the study of the Chinese culture and language. She taught several courses at the National Taiwan University among which History of European Thought and American Poetry. She taught at the Somali National University, in the years 1981, 1988 and 1989.

She presides the Centre Asia and the West that she created in the year 2000 together with a Master Course in International and Intercultural Relations between Asia and the West that started in 2009.

While in Taipei she published an Anthology of Italian poetry entitled Modern Italian Poetry.[14]

In the academic year 2006-2007 she has been Director of the Doctorate in Foreign Languages and Literatures at the Faculty of Letters of her University.

She is also an established poet, her most recent compositions were published in the Paterson Literary Review (Paterson, NJ).[15]

Literary criticism

Narratives

Poetry

Other notable activities

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ "AISNA • Italian Association for North American Studies". Eaas.eu. 2013-12-21. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  2. ↑ Lina Unali, Generale andaluso, EDES, Sassari, 2006
  3. ↑ The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 111, National Geographic Society, 1957, p. 483
  4. ↑ "Cronologia della narrativa sarda contemporanea". Filologiasarda.eu. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  5. ↑ "Sardinian Logudorese-Italian Glossary". Babylon.com. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  6. ↑ Maria Giacobbe, "Tra memoria e rancore: La Sardegna del desiderio di Lina Unali", L’Unione Sarda, June 11, 1991.
  7. ↑ "Al via la X edizione del Premio Nazionale Alghero Donna". Alguer.it.
  8. ↑ "Parola Di Donna: Lorenza Colicigno" (PDF). Lunargento.it. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  9. ↑ "Cagliari, il premio letterario Pilia ai giornalisti Chiappe e Caravano". L'Unione Sarda. 11 July 2013. p. 13. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  10. ↑ The West in Asia and Asia in the West: Essays on Transnational Interactions, edited by Elisabetta Marino and Tanfer Emin Tunc, McFarland, 2015, p. 1, ISBN 978-0-7864-9473-6.
  11. ↑ Eulalia C. Piñero Gil, "‘Complexity is not a Crime’: Marianne Moore’s Cultural Poetics" in Travelling Across Cultures, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 2000, p. 413, ISBN 9788481218404.
  12. ↑ Lina Unali, "In memoria del Prof. Agostino Lombardo docente mirabile", in Roma Sud, January 31, 2014, p. 2.
  13. ↑ Cf. Italian Alumni of the U.S.-Italy Fulbright scholarship program
  14. ↑ Modern Italian Poetry / xiàndài yìdàlì shījí, edited by Lina Unali, Chinese translation by Jason Gau, Bookman Books, Taipei, 1986
  15. ↑ 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014 Issues.
  16. ↑ "integrazione delle arti - Hero (2002)". Mymovies.it. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  17. ↑ "Inventario - agosto". YouTube. 2013-08-25. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  18. ↑ "Deposito trilingue a cura di Lina Unali". Sites.google.com. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  19. ↑ "Babylon 10 - Free Translator and Dictionaries". Babylon.com. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  20. ↑
  21. ↑ "Lina Unali". Editoririuniti.it. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  22. ↑ "Volume Information". American Literature (Duke University Press) 43: i–xxiii. March 1971.
  23. ↑ Richard Beck (1999-01-23). "MM: The Sentence Commuted: Introduction". Madisonmorrison.com. Retrieved 2016-03-14.
  24. ↑ "Lina Unali, Il racconto digitale. Roma, Editori Riuniti, 2014, pp. 133 | Volpe | Testo e Senso". Testoesenso.it. Retrieved 2016-03-14.

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