The Event
In this lecture-performance, Kimberly Campanello will track the digital as method and as source in her Italy-oriented writing, with examples from work-in-progress: This Knot, Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K and A Rag, A Map, a Pocket, a Grave (novel). She will dramatize the jostling of history, politics, ethics, and aesthetics beneath her digits as she presses and creates characters, demonstrating a methodology of digital disarticulation that disturbs and swirls particulate histories and historiographies of nations, languages, and relationships, with specific reference to the extraordinary power of the etymological crevasse between trasumanar (Dante) and la transumanza (in the Monti Dauni).
Kimberly Campanello's lecture-performance will be followed by a drinks reception.
The Author
Kimberly Campanello's most recent poetry collection An Interesting Detail was published by Bloomsbury Poetry this April. Her debut novel Use the Words You Have is the inaugural title from Somesuch Editions, the imprint of BAFTA and Oscar-winning production company Somesuch. Her versioning of Dante’s Commedia has been supported by the Devers Program in Dante Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Extracts have appeared or are forthcoming in Firmament, Poetry Ireland Review, Still Point, and Notre Dame Review. She is Professor of Poetry at the University of Leeds.
