Marzia DAmico (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A)

Curriculum Vitae

Marzia DAmico

Dr Marzia D’Amico is a Junior Researcher (FCT) at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEComp), Universidade de Lisboa. Their research investigates the intersection of tradition and experimentalism in its various forms, expressions, languages, and codes, with a particular focus on the socio-political implications of female authorship in the production of verbivocovisual poetry. They are currently writing a book that centres on the work of Mirella Bentivoglio, Tomaso Binga, Ketty La Rocca, Lucia Marcucci, and Giulia Niccolai. They co-founded the Quir Hub Research Group, CEComp (Lisbon). Dr D’Amico holds a PhD in Italian Literature from the University of Oxford (2019), where their thesis explored genre revision and women's authorship in twentieth-century Italy, with a particular emphasis on the literary mechanisms employed by Amelia Rosselli and Patrizia Vicinelli in their intentional deconstruction of the epic genre. They are the author of Figlie del Sé: L’epica rivoluzionaria di Amelia Rosselli e Patrizia Vicinelli (Mimesis, 2023) and have published several scholarly articles on the Italian counter-canon, particularly engaging with feminist and queer theory and practices. They are also a poet and translator, writing and performing in multiple languages, primarily Italian and English. Their works include the poetic collection Manufatto Poetico: Liricologismo (Zacinto, 2023) and Ragazzx Laser (Zona, 2025), which won the Premio Pagliarani Award for original poem. Their multilingual poems have been featured in DataBleed, SPAM Zine, Argo, Osmosis, Neutopia, and many other international magazines. Among others, they translated the poets Livia Franchini (Ensemble, 2022) and June Scialpi (lay0out, 2024) and the author Dr Julia Shaw (Bi. Storia, scienza e cultura della bisessualità, Mondadori: 2023) and Isabel Fall (Il racconto dell'elicottero, Zona42: 2022) Dr D’Amico also co-runs a monthly open-access newsletter on transfeminism: Ghinea [https://ghinea.substack.com/] and is Editor - for the literary magazine Argonline - of the experimental poetry column: Autopoetica [https://www.argonline.it/tag/autopoetica/] An exhaustive academic overview can be consulted at https://flul.academia.edu/MarziaDAmico

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Marzia DAmico

Citation names

DAmico, Marzia
D'Amico, Marzia
D Amico, Marzia
Amico Marzia

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 0D1A-F8B3-6C4A
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2490-6002

Email addresses

marziadamico@edu.ulisboa.pt (Professional)

Addresses

CEComp Faculdade de Letras Alameda da Universidade, 1600 – 214, Lisboa, Lisboa, Italy (Professional)

Websites

https://atamarzia.com/ (Personal)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - Languages and Literatures
Humanities - Languages and Literatures - Specific Languages
Humanities
Humanities - Arts
Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Intermediate (B1)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)	Elementary (A2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2021/11/01 - 2026 Ongoing	Junior Researcher (Pós-Graduação) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
2013/10/01 - 2019/02/09 Concluded	Medieval and Modern Languages (Doctor) Major in Italian Literature and Gender Studies University of Oxford, United Kingdom "Figlie di Omero. Verso un'epica femminile. (Homer’s Daughters. Issues, themes and expressions of feminine epic in modern Italian poetry, from the rise to its genealogical legacy)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011/10/01 - 2013/07/01 Concluded	Letterature Europee Moderne (Laurea Magistrale) Major in Italian Literature Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy "Sulla performance poetica. Il percorso della voce nella poesia performativa italiana di secondo Novecento: alcuni casi femminili. (On performative poetry. The path of the voice in the performative poetry of late 20th century in Italy...)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	110 cum laude/110
2007/09/01 - 2011/12/01 Concluded	Letteratura, Musica e Spettacolo (Laurea) Major in Italian Literature Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy "“Provenire da estremi”. Una mappa geopoetica per il performer Alberto Masala. (“Provenire da estremi”. A geo-poetic map for the performer Alberto Masala)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	108\110

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2019/04 - 2019/06	Tutor (University Teacher)	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
	Christ Church College, Oxford, United Kingdom
2019/01 - 2019/03	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
2017/04 - 2017/06	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
2017/01 - 2017/03	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
2015/01 - 2015/04	Lecturer (University Teacher)	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2021/11/10 - Current	FCT Junior Researched	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
	Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2021/11/01 - Current	A MATTER OF GEN(E)RE. WOMEN’S VERBIVOCOVISUAL POETRY IN POST-WAR ITALY 2020.03074.CEECIND/CP1592/CT0013 Post-doc Fellow Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2023/10/01 - 2024/12/15	Outcasts: Theories and Practices Outcasts: Theories and Practices Belas Artes / Outcasts: Theories and Practices Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book	Chelsea G. Summers. A certain hunger. Un insaziabile appetito.. Italy: Mondadori. 2024. Published • Translator D'Amico, Marzia. Liricologismo. Italy. 2023. Published D'Amico, Marzia. Bi. Storia, scienza e cultura della bisessualità.. Italy: Mondadori. 2023. Published • Translator D'Amico, Marzia. Figlie del sé. L'epica rivoluzionaria di Amelia Rosselli e Patrizia Vicinelli. Italy: Mimesis. 2023. Published
Book chapter	D'Amico, Marzia. "Nel Gasometro: A Gender Perspective on the Ostiense District of Rome". In People, Spaces and Places in Gendered Environments, 35-53. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2024. 10.1108/s1529-212620240000034003 D'Amico, Marzia. "Insomma, una Beffa. Humour as a Form or Re-writing, Re-engaging, Re-thinking Women. The Experimental Poetry of Giulia Niccolai". In Conceptual Writing, Experimental Poetry and Humour, 85-103. Portugal: FLUP-ILC, 2024. Published • 10.21747/978-989-35462-6-0/lib39a4 D'Amico, Marzia. "Giovanna Marmo". In Se solo queste guerre non scoppiassero a piangere. Poesia, musica e dissenso materiali dal Premio Dubito 2022, 93-103. Milan, Italy: Agenzia X, 2023. Published D'Amico, Marzia; DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "The Space of Mourning: Elettra’s mise en abyme". In A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry, edited by Dr A Bardazzi; Dr F Giusti; Prof E. Tandello-Cooper. United Kingdom: Legenda, 2022. Published DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "Amelia Rosselli. Il movimento come ridefinizione dell’Io". In SCRIVERE IL/IN CONFINO, edited by Dr R Gangemi. Italy: Aracne Editore, 2020. Published DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "Un mare abitabile". In Geometrie di Libertà, 256-280. Italy: il Maestrale, 2019. Published • 10.2307/j.ctvkwnn48.15 DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "Una cosa bellissima che dovreste conoscere". In Tutte le ragazze avanti, 113-132. Italy: add editore, 2018. Published DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "Si fa per tutte". In Il libro degli allievi per Biancamaria Frabotta, edited by A Giammei. Italy: Bulzoni, 2016. Published
Book review	DAmico, Marzia; Marzia D'Amico. "Gianluca Rizzo, Poetry on Stage: The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde.". Review of Poetry on Stage: The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde 39, (2021): 608-610. Published DAmico, Marzia; Marzia D'Amico. "L'arte plastica della parola: Monografia su Tommaso Ottonieri". Review of L'arte plastica della parola (ETS) (2021): Published DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "Interpreting Dante: Essays on the Traditions of Dante Commentary". 34, 2 (2016): 110-111. Published DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "Un limpido esempio di rettitudine". 94, 1 (2012): 48-49. Published
Conference poster	D'Amico, Marzia. "Acchiappashpirt: xenoglossia concreta, performance sonora, poesia carnosa". Paper presented in Seminario Annuale di Poesia Contemporanea, Università IULM di Milano, 2019.
Journal article	Marzia D’Amico. "Warp & Weft? Woof Woof. Giulia Niccolai: Concrete: Ironic: Feminist: A Bassa Voce". Italian Studies (2025): https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2025.2485654. 10.1080/00751634.2025.2485654 D'Amico, Marzia. "Total Cinematic Musiké: a experiência vídeo-poemática de Patrizia Vicinelli.". Rotura – Revista De Comunicação, Cultura E Artes 4 2 (2024): 39-52. Open access • Published Marzia D'Amico. "Lucia Marcucci: Visual Poetry Against Social Violence". Vista (2022): https://doi.org/10.21814/vista.4424. 10.21814/vista.4424 DAmico, Marzia. "Acchiappashpirt: xenoglossia concreta, performance sonora, poesia carnosa". ENTHYMEMA 25 (2020): 519-532. https://doi.org/10.13130/2037-2426/13695. Open access • Published DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "A name is a name is a name: Biographie di Adriano Spatola e il soggetto totale". il verri 58 (2015): Published DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "«Valeria balla Milleuna» Balestrini sciamano asemantico per la trance vocale di Demetrio Stratos". Smerilliana 16 (2014): 265-280. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2015.01559. Published
Magazine article	D'Amico, Marzia. "Cosa vuol dire letteratura queer", La Falla, 2023, https://lafalla.cassero.it/cosa-vuol-dire-letteratura-queer/. DAmico, Marzia. "Carìssima - Un dialogo con Giulia Niccolai", Argonline, 2022, https://www.argonline.it/carissima-dialogo-giulia-niccolai/. DAmico, Marzia. "Giulia Niccolai mostra la lingua", Antinomie, 2022, https://antinomie.it/index.php/2022/05/25/giulia-niccolai-mostra-la-lingua/. DAmico, Marzia. "Patrizia Vicinelli, farfalla da combattimento", Antinomie, 2021, https://antinomie.it/index.php/2021/12/22/patrizia-vicinelli-farfalla-da-combattimento/. DAmico, Marzia (0D1A-F8B3-6C4A). "L'AMOUR à volonté - Ricordo di Patrizia Vicinelli", Le Voci della Luna, 2014
Translation	D'Amico, Marzia; Isabell Fall. Il racconto dell'elicottero. Italy: Zona42. 2022. Published
Website	DAmico, Marzia; Marzia D'Amico. Perché (non) sono femminista, conversazione con Claudia Crocco. 2017. https://www.leparoleelecose.it/?p=25474.

Artistic / Performance

Artistic performance

D'Amico, Marzia. 2025. PoesiAperta 2025. Liquid Love, Lisbon, Portugal.
2024. Ginginha Poética. As Galegas, Lisboa, Portugal.
2023. PoesiAperta. A Mata, Lisbon, Portugal.
2023. Poetry reading, Z9 International Poetry Festival. Teatrul Gong, Sibiu (RO).
2023. Poetry Reading. La punta della lingua International Poetry Festival (1-2 July 2023, Ancona, Italy).
2023. Ragazzx Laser : Poesia Carnosa edizione "O". Angelo Mai.
2022. Carìssima. Padiglione de l’Esprit Nouveau, Bologna, Italy.
Loredana Lipperini; Rebecca Tamas. 2019. Natural born sorcerers. Coronet Theatre, London, UK.
2019. The ABC of wellbeing. Springboard, London.
2017. Il cielo in una stanza / This world we live in. Coronet Theatre, London, UK.

Audio recording

D'Amico, Marzia; ALMARE (Producer). 2019. "“Biographie”". In ALMARE miscellanea (11-13 October 2019, ArtVerona 15^ edizione, Italy).

Other

Other output

‘The exact stellar science behind’: extracts. Series of poems in English for Osmosis Magazine, December 2023.. 2023. D'Amico, Marzia. https://osmosispress.com/2023/12/10/marzia-damico-extracts-from-the-exact-stellar-science-behind/.
Ragazz¿ laser: frammenti.. Ragazz¿ laser: frammenti da poemetto di prossima pubblicazione; Nuovi Argomenti (November 2023) . 2023. D'Amico, Marzia. http://www.nuoviargomenti.net/poesie/guardare-2-ragazz%c9%99-laser/.
My Dog Looks Weird: Three Poems by June Scialpi, translated by Marzia D’Amico. My Dog Looks Weird: Three Poems by June Scialpi, translated by Marzia D’Amico for lay0ut magazine (online). 2023. D'Amico, Marzia. https://www.layoutmagazine.it/en/poems-june-scialpi/?fbclid=IwY2xjawG0RPpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHSLPuztFYtUAR8UeeMoeRzxL-Vp97oyto1fo_5dIcE2RoR9CnF5VlKa67Q_aem_NfhGkNoHwts1RHhwikZXzA.
WereWoolf, CCCP. Two peer reviewed poems in English for the 12 issue (Fall 2023) Feral Feminisms (© 2023 Feral Feminisms Publishing Toronto, Canada: ISSN 2292-146X). 2023. D'Amico, Marzia. https://feralfeminisms.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/3-FF-ISSUE12-MDAmico.pdf.
Conflitto: estratto.. Selection of fragments from Conflitto, poetry book (to be published in 2026 with Arcipelago Itaca, Italy).. 2023. D'Amico, Marzia. https://www.argonline.it/conflitto-estratto-poemetto-frammenti-marzia-damico/.
The most disturbing truths are the truths you knew from the beginning, but then forgot; Love is a practice; Forget nostalgia; Your body isn’t an object but a situation. Publication of 4 poems in English and one audiopoem in English as online outcome for the prestigious publishing house Pamenar Press.. 2023. D'Amico, Marzia. https://www.pamenarpress.com/post/marzia-d-amico.
Variazione liquida #2. Italian poem with audiopoem performance for the poetry blog Neutopia.. 2020. D'Amico, Marzia. https://neutopiablog.org/2020/09/16/variazione-liquida/>.
(a place).. One poem publication in English language “(a place)” in the prestigious experimental online magazine Datableed (August, 2019) . 2019. D'Amico, Marzia. https://www.datableedzine.com/marzia-d-amico-issue-13.
A love alove a-love.. One poem publication with self-commentary for the inaugurational poetry-newsletter PERVERSE mag (online magazine, Issue 1). 2018. D'Amico, Marzia. https://perverse.substack.com/.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2024/09/06	Empowering playfulness and feminist (kill)joy. Nonsense, wordplay and concretism in Giulia Niccolai’s feminist verbivisual revision.	10th Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature “Le Jeu: Gambling, Gaming and Play in Literature Sorbonne Université, Lettres (Paris, France)
2023/11/24	“You also means me”: the case of Ketty La Rocca	Expanded Poetry: The Poetics and Politics of Repetition Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2023/10/22	The queer poetics of June Scialpi. Obliquity. Conflict. Magic.	New Queer South: Perspectives on Italian Society and Culture University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2022/04/13	Écriture féminine, women’s writing. An overview of the Italian case. Invited talk, introducing Dacia Maraini.	Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2022/04/06	Pun Intended. On Giulia Niccolai, invited talk.	Weaving Media Seminar Series Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2022/03/11	Feminist culture in Italy: the case of Ghinea Newsletter, invited lecture.	Middlebury College School in Rome (Italy)
2021/10/23	(Non) sempre ricordano. Tavola rotonda sulla poesia di Patrizia Vicinelli. Invited speaker.	Istituto Storico Parri (Bologna, Italy)
2021/10/14	Ciclomaggio: in rotta con l’arcipelago, Roundtable on Amelia Rosselli. Invited speaker.	Ciclomaggio. Università di Siena (Italy)
2019/06/27	Nel Gazometro: a place, an object, a poem.	SIS - The Society for Italian studies University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
2019/06/07	Patrizia Vicinelli’s detention in Rome. A feminist Cinderella in Rebibbia.	Women's Transatlantic Prison Activism Since 1960. Rothermere American Institute (University of Oxford) (OXFORD, United Kingdom)
2019/05/13	Sara Ventroni, Nel Gasometro. A structured poetic obsession for a body structure.	ECR Workshop University of Cork (Cork, Ireland)
2019/04/13	WARP AND WEFT: spiritual concretism in Niccolai’s poetics.	International Conference Interart/Intermedia Experimentation in Italy through the Ages Royal Holloway (London, United Kingdom)
2019/04/12	Acchiappashpirt: xenoglossia concreta, performance sonora, poesia carnosa.	Seminario Annuale di Poesia Contemporanea Università IULM di Milano (Milan, Italy)
2018/04/28	Patrizia Vicinelli: “la mia vita e la mia / morte sono la stessa avventura”.	Mourning in Italian Poetry from the Medieval to the Modern Christ Church College, University of Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom)
2017/09/08	Amelia Rosselli. Il movimento come ridefinizione dell’Io.	SCRIVERE IL/IN CONFINO - Scritture femminili del Novecento Europeo Università degli Studi di Messina (Messina, Italy)
2017/06/21	Patrizia Vicinelli: A Non-Conforming Heroic Subject.	CAPPE , Giving Life To Politics University of Brighton (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2017/03/27	“Where I end and you begin". The horizon of translation, the dimensions of performance, the margins of the text.	Untranslatability in Literature and Philosophy Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, Ireland)
2017/03/04	The Space of Mourning: Elettra’s mise en abyme.	Mourning in Italian Poetry from the Medieval to the Modern Christ Church College, University of Oxford (OXFORD, United Kingdom)
2016/06/27	«Attraversare il fiume»: Patrizia Vicinelli e un nuovo soggetto eroico declinato al femminile.	AATI International Conference Università Federico II di Napoli (Naples, Italy)
2013/04/26	La poesia sarda come poesia postcoloniale in lingua italiana	AttraVersi Cultura del Comune di Ozieri e Istituzione San Michele (Ozieri, Italy)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2024/10/11 - 2024/10/15	OUTCASTS: theories and practices A two-day conference with additional artistic events funded by FCT that thematises and provides a platform for the diversity of subjects in the cultural and academic spheres, through various events celebrating the facets of identities represented in media (from literature to video games), with invited speakers from an international horizon. (2024/10/11 - 2024/10/15) Conference (Co-organisor)	Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e de Estudos em Belas-Artes, Portugal Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Comparatistas, Portugal
2018/06/07 - 2018/06/07	Gender & Authority: LGBTQ Identities. I facilitated and chaired a research seminar featuring Dr Elliot Evans (University of Birmingham) and Dr Charlotte Ross (University of Birmingham). (2018/06/07 - 2018/06/07) Seminar (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
2018/06/01 - 2018/06/01	Annual Lecture: Women and the Politics of Representation, Dr Lorna Finlayson,(University of Essex) (2018/06/01 - 2018/06/01) Other (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom
2015/02/19 - 2015/02/19	Humanities in Performance (2015/02/19 - 2015/02/19) Festival (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, United Kingdom
2014/12/05 - 2014/12/05	Graduate Study Day ‘Presenting Your Work’ in collaboration with Prof. Neil Kenny’s workshops ‘Researching and Writing a D.Phil.: Problems, Methods’ (2014) (2014/12/05) Workshop (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, United Kingdom
2014/11/20 - 2014/11/20	Poetry Reading & Literary Soirées (2014/11/20 - 2014/11/20) Festival (Co-organisor)	University of Oxford Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, United Kingdom

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2022/10/19 - 2022/10/19	String Figures, rassegna trasnfemminista queer, con un Talk dal titolo Undoing Language. Fare e disfare il genere nella lingua letteraria. Con Luca Starita (Canone ambiguo, effequ), Marzia D'Amico (FCT Junior Researcher, Libona), Simone Marcelli Pitzalis (Questo è il corpo, effequ), Luca Pinelli (Collettivo L'Altrosessuale). La rassegna è a cura di Graziana Marziliano e Alessandro Farris. Round table	Undoing Language. Fare e disfare il genere nella lingua letteraria. Università di Bologna, Italy

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2023 - Current	Jury Committee for the Italian prestigious "Premio Alberto Dubito di poesia con musica" The prize is intended to enhance and stimulate young people's artistic production in the field of poetry aloud (spoken word, poetry slam) and poetry with music (spoken music, rap), favouring innovative experiences. The award is established in cooperation with the Agenzia X publishing house. Member
2016 - 2019	The Gender and Authority project, jointly supported by TORCH and the Balliol Interdisciplinary Institute, aims to explore and question received notions of social and cultural authority, specifically as they intersect with issues of gender. Member	University of Oxford Humanities Division, United Kingdom

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/06/07 - 2023/06/30	POR-POL NET	Universidade de Lisboa

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2018/10/31 - 2018/10/31	Bionda Radio, Radio Popolare	Ghinea: newsletter femminista
2018/05/14 - 2018/05/14	Ordinary Girls (Radio Popolare)	Discussion around the word "feminism" in 21st century

Journal scientific committee

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2024/04/05 - Current	estrema: revista interdisciplinar de humanidades (2182-8040)

Distinctions

Award

2024	Premio Nazionale Elio Pagliarani (Poesia Inedita) Associazione letteraria Elio Pagliarani, Italy