Chiara Ludovica Maria Nifosi (F01C-A15C-8E11)

Curriculum Vitae

Chiara Ludovica Maria Nifosi

Chiara Nifosi is Assistant Professor of French Studies at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, where she is also a member of the Center for Comparative Studies (CEComp) and Vice-Director of the program in Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (LLC). She obtained her PhD in Romance Languages and Literatures with a specialization in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Chicago (2020), where she also served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities for two years (2020-22). She was also a visiting scholar at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris in 2016-17. Chiara Nifosi joined the FLUL in January 2023 and has taught since then undergraduate and graduate courses in the area of 19th- and 20th-century French Studies, the history of social sciences, and cultural studies.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Chiara Ludovica Maria Nifosi

Citation names

Nifosi, Chiara

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: F01C-A15C-8E11
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2345-9899

Email addresses

nifosi@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Websites

https://www.nouvelle-fribourg.com (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
French	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Elementary (A2)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2014/09/01 - 2020/05/01 Concluded	French and Francophone Studies (Doctor of Philosophy) Major in French and Francophone Studies University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States "Expérience de l'espace et pensée de la métaphore chez Marcel Proust" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	With Honors
2010/09/01 - 2013/03/31 Concluded	Foreign Languages, Cultures and Literatures (Laurea Specialistica) Major in English, French, and Spanish Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy "“Ces rares moments où l’on voit la nature telle qu’elle est, poétiquement”: techniques descriptives chez Ruskin et Proust" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa cum laude
2007/01/09 - 2011/02/28 Concluded	Foreign Languages and Literatures (Laurea) Major in English and French (Literary studies) Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy "Le traduzioni critiche di Ruskin: Proust verso la Recherche" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Summa cum laude

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/01/01 - Current	Assistant Professor (University Teacher)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2020/01/09 - 2022/08/31	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
	University of Chicago College, United States (...)
2013/06/01 - 2014/08/31	Assistant (University Teacher)	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2016/09/01 - 2017/06/30	Visiting Scholar	École Normale Supérieure, France
	École Normale Supérieure, France (...)

Outputs

Publications

Book	Nifosi, Chiara. L'Écrivain cartographe: pour une nouvelle rhétorique de l'espace chez Proust (forthcoming). Peter Lang. 2025. Accepted
Book chapter	Nifosi, Chiara. "Time and Musical Thought in Marcel Proust and Italo Svevo". In Borders of Modernism, 363-391. Perugia, Italy: Morlacchi Editore, 2019. Published Nifosi, Chiara. "Charles Baudelaire, mostro delicato…". In Charles Baudelaire. Il sipario era alzato: uno sguardo al teatro. Bergamo, Italy: Lemma Press (Collezione Arsenale), 2017. Published Nifosi, Chiara. "Une langue de voyage. Étude quantitative sur l’italien de Montaigne". In Montaigne à l'étranger. Voyages avérés, possibles et imaginés, 225-241. Paris, France: Classiques Garnier, 2016. Published • 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-05994-3
Book review	Nifosi, Chiara. "Bertrand Méheust, Proust voyant, Bruxelles, Éditions Vues de l’esprit, 2022, 320 pp.". Review of Proust voyant III, 201 (2024): 720-721. Published Nifosi, Chiara. "P. Codazzi, André Gide et la Grande Guerre. L’émergence d’un esprit européen". Review of André Gide et la Grande Guerre. L’émergence d’un esprit européen I, LXVI (2022): https://journals.openedition.org/studifrancesi/49008. Published • https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.49008 Nifosi, Chiara. "M. N. Muller, Les voix narratives dans “La Recherche du temps perdu”". Review of Les voix narratives dans “La Recherche du temps perdu” LXV, I (2021): http://journals.openedition.org/studifrancesi/44163. Published • https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.44163 Nifosi, Chiara. "Son et traduction dans l’œuvre de Proust, sous la direction d’Emily Eells et Naomi Toth". Review of Son et traduction dans l’œuvre de Proust LXIII, I (2019): https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.16663. Published • https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.16663 Nifosi, Chiara. "J.-P Ollivier, Proust et les sciences". Review of Proust et les sciences LXIII, III (2019): http://journals.openedition.org/studifrancesi/21617. Published • https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.21617 Nifosi, Chiara. "Jérôme Prieur, Chez Proust en tournant". Review of Chez Proust en tournant LXII, I (2018): https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.12055. https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.12055 Nifosi, Chiara. "J.-C. Dumoncel, La Mathesis de Marcel Proust". Review of La Mathesis de Marcel Proust LXI, II (2017): https://journals.openedition.org/studifrancesi/10042. Published • https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.10042 Nifosi, Chiara. "E. Fülöp, Ph. Chardin (éds.), Cent ans de jalousie proustienne". Review of Cent ans de jalousie proustienne LX, I (2016): https://journals.openedition.org/studifrancesi/4449. Published • https://doi.org/10.4000/studifrancesi.4449 Nifosi, Chiara. "Octave Mirbeau, La Morte di Balzac / La Mort de Balzac (D. Vago, éd.), Milan, Sedizioni, 2014". Review of La Morte di Balzac / La Mort de Balzac (2015): https://www.nouvelle-fribourg.com/musee-gutenberg/octave-mirbeau-la-morte-di-balzac-la-mort-de-balzac/.
Journal article	Nifosi, Chiara. "Une résistance silencieuse : le cas d’Albertine". Quaderni Proustiani 1 17 (2023): 169-188. https://quaderniproustiani.padovauniversitypress.it/2023/1/11. Open access • Published • 10.14658/PUPJ-QP-2023-1-11 Nifosi, Chiara. "Insiders’ Landscapes in John Ruskin and Marcel Proust". Dix-Neuf 27 1 (2023): 50-66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14787318.2023.2192602. Published • 10.1080/14787318.2023.2192602 Nifosi, Chiara; James, Alison. "Hauteur et profondeur dans l’écriture de Proust : une proposition de lecture". Contemporary French and Francophone Studies 26 1 (2022): 91-99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17409292.2022.2026081. Published • 10.1080/17409292.2022.2026081 Nifosi, Chiara. "Du marcheur au touriste : la mise en scène des Alpes dans la littérature du XIXe siècle". Revue italienne d’études françaises 11 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/rief.8078. Open access • Published • 10.4000/rief.8078 Nifosi, Chiara. "Geography and Psychology: The Battlefield of Doncières". H-France Salon 13 (2021): https://h-france.net/Salon/SalonVol13no13.3.Nifosi.pdf. Open access • Published Nifosi, Chiara. "Ponctuer le texte de sa présence : lyrisme et épopée dans la prose romanesque de Maylis de Kerangal". Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine 14 (2017): http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/fixxion.12808. Open access • Published • 10.4000/fixxion.12808 Nifosi, Chiara. "Proust e Ruskin: il complesso ipotesto della coscienza". L'Analisi Linguistica e Letteraria 20 1 (2012): 31-52. https://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/304. Open access • Published
Magazine article	Nifosi, Chiara; Locatelli, Federica; Binda, Simone. "Trois questions à Carmelo Pistillo", Nouvelle Fribourg, 2023, https://www.nouvelle-fribourg.com/gare/trois-questions-a-carmelo-pistillo/. Nifosi, Chiara. "Éditorial. Lettre ouverte à une parole qui renaît toujours", Nouvelle Fribourg, 2020, https://www.nouvelle-fribourg.com/archives/editorial-lettre-ouverte-a-une-parole-qui-renait-toujours/. Nifosi, Chiara. "« Un style qui appuie trop sur les mots » : Ponge et l'objet peint", Nouvelle Fribourg, 2015, https://www.nouvelle-fribourg.com/musee-dart-et-dhistoire/un-style-qui-appuie-trop-sur-les-mots-ponge-et-lobjet-peint/. Nifosi, Chiara. "Marcher et raconter dans la prose de Beckett: l'expérience liminaire de l'écriture", Nouvelle Fribourg, 2015, https://www.nouvelle-fribourg.com/archives/marcher-et-raconter-dans-la-prose-de-beckett-lexperience-liminaire-de-lecriture/. Nifosi, Chiara. "Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938", Nouvelle Fribourg, 2015, https://www.nouvelle-fribourg.com/musee-dart-et-dhistoire/magritte-the-mystery-of-the-ordinary-1926-1938/.
Website	Nifosi, Chiara; Locatelli, Federica. Nouvelle Fribourg - Lieu de Culture Littéraire. 2015. https://www.nouvelle-fribourg.com.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/11/15	"Sappho Goes to Paris: Tales of Ontological Disquiet"	Invited Lecture Indiana University (Bloomington, United States)
2022/12/12	Resisting Silence: Ethics and Aesthetics of Lesbianism in Proust	Universidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
2021/02/01	The World and the Self: Proustian Geographies	University of Chicago French Club (Chicago, United States)
2019/12/13	The Description of Landscape in John Ruskin	Université de la Vallée d'Aoste

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/01/01 - 2022/06/30	Habiter le lieu: habitude et impression chez Proust Supervisor	French (Degree) University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/09/01 - 2024/06/07	Event Co-organizer, Spaces and Routes: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Literature and Cartography, Universidade de Lisboa, FLUL/CEComp, June 6-7, 2024. (2024/06/06 - 2024/06/07) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2021/05/14 - 2021/05/14	Event Organizer, Marcel Proust: Contested Legacies, University of Chicago, May 14, 2021 (2021/05/14 - 2021/05/14) Conference (Co-organisor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2015/11/13 - 2015/11/14	Event Co-organizer, Fiction/Non-Fiction: The Uses and Truths of Literature, with Alison James, University of Chicago, November 13-14, 2015. (2015/11/13 - 2015/11/14) Conference (Co-organisor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2024/11/07 - 2024/11/10	Presentation of Conference Paper: "Sexual Expats: Lesbian Routes in French Modernism" Conference	"Migration." The Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 2024 Johns Hopkins University, United States
2024/06/04 - 2024/06/07	Presentation of conference paper, "Paul Éluard's Dangerous Landscapes" Conference	International Congress - Plural Modernities / Modernidades Plurais Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/10/26 - 2023/10/29	Co-organizer of Conference Panel, “Camera Travels: Photography, Literature, and Intermediality,” with Silvia Guslandi and Christine Fouirnaies, The Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 2023, Brooklyn, NY, October 26-29 Conference	"Streets." The Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference 2023
2023/09/20 - 2023/09/22	Presentation of conference paper, “Seen from Above: Aerial Imagination in French War Poetry,” Uses of Modernism, Ghent, September 20-22, 2023 Conference	Uses of Modernism Universiteit Gent, Belgium
2023/05/05 - 2023/05/05	Presentation in the LOCUS Seminar (CEComp, ULisboa), "Aerial Imagination during World War I and the Renewal of French Lyric Poetry", May 5, 2023. Seminar	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
2022/12/01 - 2022/12/03	Presentation of conference paper, “Une résistance silencieuse: le cas d’Albertine,” L'écriture du silence dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust, Università di Padova, December 1-3, 2022 Conference	L'écriture du silence dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Marcel Proust Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
2022/10/20 - 2022/10/20	Presentation of Molière’s L’Avare, in collaboration with the Région Autonome Vallée d’Aoste, for the opening of the “Saison Culturelle,” Aoste, October 20, 2022. Festival	L'Avare de Molière: une introduction Università della Valle d'Aosta, Italy Regione Autonoma Valle d'Aosta, Italy
2022/09/28 - 2022/10/02	Presentation of conference paper, Proust en une page, Université de Toulouse, September 28-30, Illiers-Combray, October 1-2, 2022. Conference	Proust en une page Université de Toulouse Le Mirail, France
2022/03/02 - 2022/03/05	Panel Chair and Speaker, Impossible Fictions / Fictions Impossibles, University of Chicago, March 2-5, 2022 Conference	Impossible Fictions / Fictions Impossibles University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2021/10/08 - 2021/10/08	Seminar presentation, “Géographies de Proust: une réflexion sur la notion de spatialité,” Dix-Neuf at a distance virtual seminars series organized by the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes and the journal Dix-Neuf, U.K., October 8, 2021.
2021/03/12 - 2021/03/12	Presentation in the roundtable for early career scholars, A New Normal?: Twentieth and Twenty-First Century French and Francophone Studies International Virtual Colloquium, Georgetown University, March 12, 2021. Conference	Georgetown University, United States
2019/12/04 - 2019/12/04	Participation in the student-led exhibition and public readings at the Pavillon du Mont-Fréty, Mont Blanc, in collaboration with Prof. Federica Locatelli (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Université de la Vallée d’Aoste), December 2019.	Università della Valle d'Aosta, Italy
2019/10/31 - 2019/11/02	Presentation of conference paper, “Des charmes de Lesbos à ‘la pâle Psappha’: évolutions du saphisme dans la poésie symboliste,” Enchantment/Disenchantment : 45th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Florida State University, October 31-November 2, 2019. Conference	Enchantment/Disenchantment : 45th Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium Florida State University, United States
2018/04/12 - 2018/04/14	Co-organizer of Conference Panel, “Proustian Possibilities,” with François Proulx and Darci L. Gardner, ‘Sous les pavés’, 20th/21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium, Brown University, April 12-14, 2018. Conference	‘Sous les pavés’, 20th/21st-Century French and Francophone Studies International Colloquium Brown University, United States
2017/10/06 - 2017/10/07	Presentation of conference paper, “Le lyrisme de René Char et Saint-John Perse: une contre-histoire poétique,” (Re)activism: Artists and Academics as Political Agents, University of Colorado Boulder, October 6-7, 2017. Conference	(Re)activism: Artists and Academics as Political Agents University of Colorado at Boulder, United States
2017/05/20 - 2017/05/20	Presentation of the volume Charles Baudelaire. Il sipario era alzato: uno sguardo al teatro, in collaboration with Prof. Federica Locatelli (Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Université de la Vallée d’Aoste) and Marina Spreafico (Teatro Arsenale, Milan); part of a series of lectures connected to the exhibition “Manet and Modern Paris,” Palazzo Reale, Milan, May 2017.	Comune di Milano, Italy
2016/12/14 - 2016/12/16	Presentation of conference paper, “Time and Musical Thought in Marcel Proust and Italo Svevo,” Borders of Modernism, University of Perugia, December 14-16, 2016. Conference	Borders of Modernism Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy
2014/06/16 - 2014/06/16	Participation in the “Bloomsday,” a public event organized by Prof. Giuliana Bendelli (Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Milan, June 2014.	Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/12/02	Pensar o sujeito face à paisagem. Teorias da experiência e da representação em alguns textos de Philippe Jaccottet e Hélène Gaudy (Thesis) Main arguer	Bárbara dos Santos Carvalho Sexauer (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024/05/07	Imagining Worlds in Literature and Science. Works by Paul Valéry, Virginia Woolf, and Carlo Emilio Gadda Thesis Member	Nicola Giansiracusa (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/12/15	Lire et traduire la « ponctuation clownesque » de Jules Laforgue (Reviewer, Doctor Europaeus) Thesis Member	Monica Lucioni (PhD) Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy Sorbonne Université, France
2023/04/21	O luto em Proust Thesis Member	Marana Borges (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/02/23 - 2024/03/31	Quaderni proustiani (2612-6842)	Padova University Press
2023/05/11 - 2023/06/16	Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (20430701)	Intellect

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2014/09/01 - Current	Co-founder and Co-director of the online peer-reviewed journal Nouvelle Fribourg – lieu de culture littéraire, literary criticism of 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature (URL: www.nouvelle-fribourg.com).	Co-founder and Co-director; Regular Contributor

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2023/01/01 - Current	O Estudo das Culturas	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2024/01/22 - 2024/05/05	Narrativa francesa: le conte fantastique au XIXe siècle	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2023/12/15	Teatro e espetáculo em França: a tragédia no século XX (Modern Tragic in 20th-century France)	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/09/01 - 2023/12/15	Tópicos avançados em estudos franceses: Literatura e ciências sociais na França moderna	(Mestrado)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2023/01/01 - 2023/05/31	Cultura Francesa Contemporânea (History of Feminism in Modern and Contemporary France; Annie Ernaux, Olivia Rosenthal, Lola Lafon)	(Licenciatura)	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
2022/04/01 - 2022/06/30	French Modernism in Context	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2022/01/01 - 2022/03/31	Advanced French	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2022/01/01 - 2022/03/31	Reading Cultures: Travel	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago College, United States
2020/09/01 - 2021/12/15	Reading Cultures: Collection	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago College, United States
2021/04/01 - 2021/06/30	Mind and Memory in 19th-century France	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2021/01/01 - 2021/03/31	Écritures féminines au XIXe siècle: une introduction	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2019/04/01 - 2019/06/30	Memory and Identity in French Literature: From Proust to the Present, bridge course in French for the program “Languages Across the Curriculum”	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2018/09/01 - 2018/12/15	Figures du poète au XXe siècle	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2018/01/01 - 2018/03/31	Mid Beginner French	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States
2017/09/01 - 2017/12/15	Low beginner Italian	(Bachelor)	University of Chicago Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, United States

Distinctions

Award

2020	Humanities Teaching Fellowship, University of Chicago
2020	Franke Institute Funding Award for the organization of the conference “Marcel Proust: Contested Legacies.”
2019	Vigneron Dissertation Completion Fellowship for the academic year 2019-2020.
2019	Chateaubriand Exchange Program, funded by the French Embassy of the United States (declined)
2018	François Furet Travel Grant (French Chicago Center).
2018	Graduate Council Travel Fund Award, University of Chicago
2013	Pascal Pia Fellowship – W. T. Bandy Center for Baudelaire and Modern French Studies, Vanderbilt University.
2012	Travel Funding - Visiting researcher at the Ruskin Library and Research Centre, Lancaster University.