Laura Maria Colombo

Introduction

Laura Colombo teaches French Literature and Francophone Literatures, and she is a specialist in 19th Century French Literature. Her research fields, at an international level, mainly concern:

• Women’s writing, particularly in its relationship with the 19th Century canon; Marie d’Agoult; George Sand; women’s novel, in France and in the Francophone literatures; representations of feminity in literature;
• Relationships between literature and music and dance;
• Francophone literatures (Belgium, Maghreb, Sub-Saharan Africa, Antilles);
• Literary translation.

Director of C.R.I.E.R. (Centro di Ricerca Interdisciplinare sull'Europa Romantica).
President of Association Universitaire Francophone of Verona.
Member of the Management board and of the Scientific committee of Fondazione Annarosa Poli - George Sand e il mondo.

In 1994 she was awarded the “Natalino Sapegno” prize for her final master thesis..

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Roles in university bodies

• Member of Commissione Paritetica Docenti-Studenti
• componente Council for the Romance Philology Department
• componente Teachers' Committee in the Master in Foreign Literature and Science of Literature
• associato Consiglio del Dipartimento di Lingue e Letterature Straniere
• ricercatore Teaching Committee for the PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures
• Member of Comitato scientifico del Corso di Perfezionamento in Letterature della migrazione
• Member of Teaching Committee for Foreign Languages and Literatures
• Member of Collegio didattico di Beni culturali, Lettere e Tradizione e interpretazione dei testi letterari
• Member of Comitato Scientifico del corso di perfezionamento in Traduzione letteraria e saggistica multimediale
• componente Internationalisation Committee
• Member of Teaching Committee for the PhD in Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures