Andrea Lupi

Happily survived my viva in the midst of a heatwave and ended this PhD not with a whimper but with a bang 💣🎉 many thanks are due to my supervisors, Prof Laura Giovannelli and Prof Fausto Ciompi, for their insightful comments and their invaluable guidance over these years.

Managed to the end (not with a whimper, but with a bang!) of 4 long and exciting days at the @IntlTSEliotSoc annual meeting in Dublin 🇮🇪 Great papers and chats - it was so lovely to meet again with old & new friends

I'm honestly sick of the atmosphere here and the current spread of hatred and misinformation. Might still check in every once in a while, but in the meantime please find me in the other place 🦋

Task for the day is to try to decipher my own bad handwriting and implement my edits on the chapter file I'm working on. I'm clearly not an early modernist, you can tell by my poor deciphering skills 🔍

The English Church, or Christ Church, was open for service in 1878 and represented a reference point to the Anglican churchgoers of the region. Now, might it not be the case that Eliot stopped there on the way from his pension to Vittoz and then back? /7

Before getting there, on my way along the marvellous Avenue d'Ouchy and its sumptuous palaces, my attention fell on a sign for an English Church, a few steps away from the main road. /6

My quest was more successful with Dr Vittoz's clinic and personal residence, a villa surrounded by a garden where he would see his patients, located in Avenue des Tilleuls 2. /4

Pension Sainte-Luce was near the train station and at a reasonable distance from Vittoz's clinic. The pension isn't there anymore, although the road now hosts a pretty old-school hotel, perhaps close to the area where the old pension was. /3

Of course, in between sessions I HAD to go and hunt for Eliot places! And my journey started at Avenue Sainte-Luce, where Eliot stayed by the end of 1921 and completed the last drafts of The Waste Land. /2

Currently in Lausanne 🇨🇭 for the @Essenglish 2024 conference and to present my project to fellow young scholars from all over Europe at the Doctoral Symposium /1 – at Lausanne, Switzerland

Had 3 amazing days in Leeds at Ephemeral Modernism @modernistudies filled with modernist chats, meeting new&old friends and listening to fantastic papers. Thanks to the organisers and the welcoming atmosphere at @LeedsUniEnglish. It was ephemeral and yet memorable! 🍃

Got to Leeds safe and sound and excited for the upcoming BAMS @modernistudies Ephemeral Conference! Slides finished while on the plane at the very last minute but looking forward to talking about Eliot-Hale, Keats and love letters on Friday 💌

Fantastic keynote by @GreenBowlerHat at the SEM Therapeutic Modernisms Conference on modernist fruits, the sensuality of peaches and hedonist vs puritanical discourses on diets 🍑

On my way to Grenoble for the 5th SEM conference where I'll present a paper on T. S. Eliot's "restless nights" and how to cope with insomnia through poetry. Excited and craving pain au chocolat! 🇫🇷

On today's #ModWrite I am polishing up my paper for the Crossing Boundaries conference at Roma Tre this week. Excited to present my research on language/the body, Prufrock and why Eliot shifted from philosophy to poetry in 1915 :)

Late to the party, but today's #ModWrite it's actually a publishing day! My chapter (in Italian) on the centenary of TWL and the issue of transtextuality in three of its adaptions is out in an edited collection of contributions from young scholars 🎉

This #ModWrite I'm drafting a section on "Untangling Perception" in Eliot's early writings, understanding how he relied on metaphors and imageries that conceived the phenomenal world as a maze to unravel, grappling with its materiality/immateriality. Totally feel like Alice! 😅