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What is TEXTL?
The TEXTL Centre (Textual Explorations of Materiality, Visuality and Literature) promotes a study of literature in a materialistic and multi/intermedia perspective. It is structured in three main macro-areas of investigation:
- multimediality/intermediality (iconotexts, adaptations, novelisations, literary exhibitions, literature and other media, phototextuality);
- materiality of literature (media channels and supports, typographic unconscious, paratexts, the book as an object, new media spaces);
- literature and material culture (objects in literature, literature and cultural institutions, literary tourism, writers' houses and museums).
TEXTL also aims to foster collaborations with other research groups, networks, and institutions working on similar topics
[image: Heidi Wood, Wheelers Hill, 2012]
Next events
13 APR 2026
Conferences
PublishedHugo Frey, "Designing Modiano: French, Italian, English and US American Frameworks"
Second meeting in a series of two lectures on Patrick Modiano given by Hugo Frey, Professor of Visual and Cultural History at the University of Chichester.
15 APR 2026
Talks
PublishedA talk with Giulia Brivio (Artphilein, Studio Boîte)
First event in the new series of talks "Women with a Camera (and a Typewriter): The Art of Publishing".
20 APR 2026
Seminars
PublishedAnna Masecchia, "Snapshots of eternity: Varda’s photography between still and moving images"
The fourth session of the seminar series "Women with a camera (and a notebook, a pen, a laptop...)"
27 APR 2026
Talks
PublishedSonia Lenzi, "Unlikely Monuments. Imagination and memory: catalogues, commissioners, dialogues"
Second event in the new series of talks "Women with a Camera (and a Typewriter): The Art of Publishing".
14 MAY 2026
Seminars
PublishedFederica Muzzarelli, "Photography and Family Albums: Journeys of Identity and Projections of the Imagination"
The fifth and final session of the seminar series "Women with a camera (and a notebook, a pen, a laptop...)"