Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives

Adrien Frenay is Teaching Professor at the Université Paris Nanterre. He is a member of the Centre des Sciences des Littératures en Langue Française (CSLF) and of the Centre des Recherches Pluridisciplinaires Multilingues (CRPM), where he coordinates, with Lucia Quaquarelli, the international project Espace, Déplacement, Mobilité. His research focuses on the historical poetics of mobilities in the 19th and 20th century French novel.

Giulio Iacoli is Associate Professor at the University of Parma, where he teaches literary theory, sociology and comparatistics. His research fields include: contemporary narratives; inter artes relations (themes, phototexts, adaptations, rewritings); geographies and cartographies in literature; relations between writing and educational institutions; gender and queer studies.

Lucia Quaquarelli is Associate Professor in Italian Studies at the Université Paris Nanterre, she is the co-head of the Centre des Recherches Pluridisciplinaires Multilingues (CRPM) and coordinates, with Adrien Frenay, the international project Espace, Déplacement, Mobilité, and with Dorothée Cailleux the international project Les fabriques de la traduction. Her research focuses on contemporary narratives and on the cultural and political role of translation.