Eleonora Fisco is a joint PhD candidate in Literature, Arts, and Media: the Transcodification at the University of L’Aquila (IT) and the University of Lausanne (CH). In 2024, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Chicago, where she worked on a performance practice as research project focused on the translation of performance poetry. She has published several articles on spoken word poetry and the monograph The Aesthetic Response in Poetry Slam. Frame Analysis and Phenomenology of Performance (Mille Gru, 2022). Her research interests include the history and publishing formats of oral poetry, as well as the intersections between artistic and academic research.
She directs the book series Quaderni Slam for Mille Gru Editions.
Conferences
- Presentation “Ekphrasis et poésie performance, de l’émotion à l’expérience” at the 5e Biennale de la chanson. Corps et âme. Transmettre l’émotion en chanson, University of Lausanne (19-21/03/2025)
- Participation in the roundtable of La recherche-création – Journée de la recherche et de la relève, University of Lausanne (14/03/2025)
- Presentation “Publishing Performative Poetry. The Howphelia Platform” at the conference Where is Literature? Circulation, Institutions, Power Relations, University of Bologna (11-13/12/2024)
- Presentation “Humanistic Dissemination through Oral Poetry: Poetry Slam and Spoken Word Poetry in Italy” at the conference Mediterranean Routes, University of Palermo (12-14/09/2024)
- Presentation “Vocifera: Re-oralyzing the Twentieth Century” at the conference The Spell of the Voice, University of Chicago (12-13/04/2024)
- Presentation “We sing the body inhautentic: Practices of De-authentication in Italian Poetry Slam” at the conference Chiasmi. Contested Bodies in Italian Studies organized by Harvard University and Brown University (05-06/04/2024)
- Presentation “La versione della Musa: una lettura BDSM delle relazioni di potere tra poesia e pornografia” at the conference Eros & Thanatos, University of L’Aquila (26-27/09/2023)
- Presentation “Activism in Italian Slam Poetry: A New Form of Engagement?” at the Summer School Contemporary Poetry and Civil Society, University of Italian Switzerland (05-06/09/2023)
- Presentation “Frame Analysis of Poetry Slam” at the conference Nuova Pop. Oral and Performative Poetry of the 2000s, University of Bologna (21/05/2021)
- Presentation “The Representation of Stigmatized Identities in Poetry Slam” at the Second CIRQUE Conference. Performativity: Past, Present, and Future, University of Pisa (27/06/2019-30/06/2019)
Scientific Publications
- “On doing ‘being a victim’. Sulla titolarità dell’esperienza della vittima nella slam poetry” in L’estasi del martirio, Milan: Mimesis, 2025 (book chapter).
- “The Italian Spoken Music. Intermediality and Medium Specificity in Mezzopalco’s Work” in Rebecka Dürr, Kira Henkel, and Vadim Keylin (eds.): Poetry, Music and Sound Art: Recent Medial Correlations / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst: Neuere mediale Konstellationen. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, in press (book chapter).
- “Frame Analysis of Poetry Slam” in Marc Matter, Henrik Wehmeier and Clara Cosima Wolff (eds.): Audioliterary Poetry between Performance and Mediatization, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2024, pp. 93-112. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111561356-005 (book chapter).
- “Sulla spoken music in Italia: i progetti del collettivo Zoopalco” in L’Ulisse 26 Poesia e musica oggi, 2023, Stefano Salvi and Italo Testa (eds.), n. 26, Lieto Colle, 2023, pp. 296-309 [ISSN: 1973-2740] (peer reviewed paper). Read more here.