Fernando Porta

MA Sheff., PhD Reading

Lettore of Italian Studies

(by appointment of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Arts Building, room 2.38
Ph: (+61 8) 6488 2194
Fax: (+61 8) 6488 1182
fporta@arts.uwa.edu.au

Teaching and Research Interests

Literary History and Criticism, Comparative Literature, Translation Studies, film Studies, non-mimetic narrative genres (science-fiction, utopian, fantasy).

"H. G. Wells e The Time Machine", in La Citt� e le Stelle (Carlo Pagetti ed.), n. 4, Winter '85/Spring '86, pp. 37-45; now available on-line: http://www.intercom.publinet.it/cs/4CS5.htm.

"Poe's Angelic Tales as a Utopian Paradigm against Science" paper presented at the Third International Symposium of Science Fiction of Nice (April, 1987), in Métaphores nn. 14-15, Université de Nice, Faculté de Lettres, Janvier 1988, pp. 19-31.

"La fantascienza a scuola: appunti e spunti dall'esperienza anglo-americana", in Le lingue del mondo, Valmartina Editore, Firenze, n. 4/5, n.s., July-October 1988, pp. 72-76.

Introduzione to the Italian edition of H.G. Wells' A Modern Utopia (1905), (Una utopia moderna. Mursia Editore, Milano, 1990), pp. 5-25.

"All the Times of Narrativity: Temporality in H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and John Varley's Millennium", in Métaphores n. 23, Septembre 1993 (Université de Nice, Faculté de Lettres, numero monografico "Les Representations du Temps"), pp. 85-96.

"Flatland di E.A. Abbott: la geometria come favola", in Lo Spazio e le sue rappresentazioni: stati, modelli, passaggi, P. Cabibbo ed. (proceedings of the symposium "Lo spazio e le sue rappresentazioni", Fisciano, 5-7 March 1990), Napoli-Roma, Ediz. Scientifiche Italiane, 1994, pp. 173-184.

"Transitivity Patterns and Psychological Characterization in Joseph Conrad's The Secret Sharer", in Quaderni del Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari n.6, Roma-Napoli, Ediz. Scientifiche Italiane, 1995, pp. 207-224.

"'Vertigo on Utopia': lo spazio del futuro ed il tempo della memoria in When the Sleeper Awakes di H.G. Wells" in Per una topografia dell�altrove, (proceedings of "Per una topografia dell'altrove", University of Salerno, 24-26 November 1993), Napoli, Liguori Editore, 1996, pp. 239-250.

"'When the wor(l)ds collide': ambiguit� dialogiche a confronto. Michail Bachtin, Doris Lessing e U.K. Le Guin", in Le trasformazioni del narrare: atti del XVI Convegno Nazionale AIA (Ostuni, 13-17 ottobre, 1993). Schena Editore, 1998, pp. 311-322.

La scienza come favola: saggio sui scientific romances di Herbert George Wells, Salerno, Edisud Editore, 1998, pp. 1-450. [book study]

"One text, many utopias. Some examples of intertextuality" (proceedings of "The Time Machine: Present and Future", London, Imperial College, 26-29 luglio 1995), published in in The Wellsian n. 20, 1999, pp. 10-19.

Translations & Reviews

(From Italian into English) Prof. Romolo Runcini's paper "H.G.Wells and Futurity", presented at the International Symposium "H.G.Wells under Revision" (London, 24th-27th July, 1986), now published in H.G. Wells Under Revision, P. Parrinder e C. Rolfe eds., New Jersey, Susquehanna University Press, 1990.


(From English into Italian) H.G. Wells's A Modern Utopia, (orig. 1905), published by Mursia Editore in Milan (1990, pp. 1-176).


Review to Karl Kroeber's Romantic Fantasy and Science Fiction (London & New Haven, 1988) for Utopian Studies, Vol. 3, no. 1, 1992, pp. 187-189.