Dr Giorgia Alù

Profile

Giorgia Alù is Associate Professor (Reader) in Italian Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on travel writing, women’s writing, the relationship between photography and literature, and photographic culture. She is the author of Beyond the Traveller’s Gaze: Expatriate Ladies Writing in Sicily (1848-1910) (2008) and Journeys Exposed: Women’s Writing, Photography, and Mobility (2019), and co-editor of Enlightening Encounters. Photography in Italian Literature (2015). Her publications also include articles on contemporary women writers in Italy such as Melania Mazzucco, Carla Cerati, and Ornela Vorpsi, and special issues of journals on the interrelation between words and the visual. Alù is currently working on the interrelation between written and visual texts and subjection and solidarity in Italy (1860-1960), as well as on the engagement of Italian female photographers with issues of ethics and aesthetics and their contribution to the transmission and preservation of the Italian cultural heritage since the 19th century. She is also Chief Investigator of a collaborative ARC Discovery Project, ‘Opening Australia’s Multilingual Archive’ (2021-24), which mobilises Australia’s non-English language resources to examine its history from non-English perspectives.