Elias Polizoes
Modern Languages and Literatures
Assistant Professor
Room: UC 258
Phone: (519)661-2111 ext. 85897
E-Mail: epolizoe@uwo.ca
Areas of Expertise and Research
- Italian Literature, Film, Culture, and Language Pedagogy
- Comparative Literature
- Literary/Critical Theory
- Allegory
- Modernism
- Modern Greek Literature, Film and Culture
- Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Anglo-American Literature
Languages:
- English
- Italian
- Modern Greek
Courses Recently Taught:
Undergraduate
- Italian 100 | CLC 100: The Capitals of Italian Culture
- CLC 205G: Introduction to Literary Theory
- CLC 271G: Nineteenth-Century Culture
- CLC 272G: Modernism
Graduate
- CL 501a: The Fundamentals of Comparative Literature
- CL 651b | Theory & Criticism 628b: Allegory in History and Theory
- CL 651b: Allegory
Current Projects
Books:
Giorgio Caproni. La scrittura e l’interpretazione (Palermo: Palumbo Editore) [under contract]
Disturbing the Universal: The Persistence of Allegory [in preparation]
Publications
Articles:
[forthcoming] “Appunti sull’immanenza e trascendenza,” Allegoria (Palumbo, Palermo).
[forthcoming] “Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and Four-fold Reading,” Rivista di storia e letteratura religiosa (Olschki, Firenze).
[forthcoming] “Allegory at the Limits of Classicism: Eugenio Montale’s La bufera e altro,” Forum Italicum.
Symbol and Allegory in the Wake of Romanticism,” Neohelicon, xxxv (2008) 1, 145-56.
“Palazzeschi e San Francesco,” in Atti del convegno sull’arte del saltimbanco. Aldo Palazzeschi tra due avanguardie, ed. Luca Somigli and Gino Tellini (Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2008), pp. 89-99.
“Introduction” to Eugenio Montale, Posthumous Diary (selections), in Lost in the Archives, ed. Rebecca Comay (Toronto: Alphabet City Media, 2002): 527-532.
“Federigo Tozzi,” in Dictionary of Literary Biography: Italian Prose Writers, 1900-1945, eds. Rocco Capozzi and Luca Somigli (Detroit: The Gale Group, 2002): 347-358.
“The Dramatic Monologue: From Robert Browning to T. S. Eliot,” Studies in English and Comparative Literature 16 (2000): 51-66.
“Myth and History in Foscolo’s A Zacinto,” Rivista di Studi Italiani 13.1 (June 1995): 48-66.
Translations:
Posthumous Diary (selections), by Eugenio Montale, in Lost in the Archives, ed. Rebecca Comay (Toronto: Alphabet City Media, 2002): 527-551.
“The Philosophy of Infancy,” by Giorgio Agamben, in Public 21 (2001): 120-122.
“After the Terrorist Attack in New York,” by Romano Luperini, Literary Research / Recherche Littéraire 18.36 (Fall-Winter 2001): pp. 278-280.
“Seventeen Theses on the Teaching of Literature,” by Romano Luperini, Literary Research / Recherche Littéraire 17.34 (Fall-Winter 2000): 255-262.
(with Luca Pocci):"Naples--The Porous City. Massimo Cacciari Interviewed by Claudio Velardi," Alphabet City, ed. John Knechtel (Toronto: Anansi, 1998), no. 6, "Open City" issue, pp. 28-43.
(with Luca Pocci): "The Jungle and the Niche," by Remo Bodei, Alphabet City, eds.Cornelius Heesters & Len Guenther (Toronto: Anansi, 2000), no. 7, "Social Insecurity" issue, pp.160-69.
