• Giovanni Iamartino

    Giovanni Iamartino is Professor of English at the University of Milan, where he teaches the History of the English Language, English Linguistics and Middle English literature. He was educated at the Catholic University of Milan, and previously taught there and at the Universities of Sassari and IULM-Milan. Currently head of the Department of Language Studies and Compared Literature at the University of Milan, he has been a Fellow of the English Academy since 2002.
    As far as research is concerned, he has worked in the following areas: (1) Old and Late Middle English language and literature; (2) Early Modern English; (3) the history of English and Anglo-Italian lexicography; (4) English lexicology; and (5) Anglo-Italian linguistic, literary and cultural relations.
    Professor Iamartino became involved in the "Queen and Country" research project after giving a paper on Queen Elizabeth's portraits as iconic representations of her political power (published as “Icone del potere: simbolo e realtà nei ritratti di Elisabetta I Tudor”, in Donne di palazzo nelle corti europee. Tracce e forme di potere dall’età moderna, edited by Angela Giallongo, Edizioni Unicopli, Milano 2005, pp.63-78). He has also been interested in the Early Modern English language of power for a long time, and is currently heading a national research group on the relationship between ideology, culture and language.
    giovanni.iamartino@unimi.it

    Most Relevant Publications

    His publications include:
    - an essay on the OE Guthlac texts and the edition of a late ME ms sermon;
    - some essays on Early Modern English language and texts (Quaker language, Lord Halifax, James Howell)
    - a book and 3 essays on early English-Italian dictionaries and language handbooks (Florio, Baretti)
    - 5 essays on early English lexicography, especially Samuel Johnson
    - 3 essays on the reception of British writers in Italy, especially Lord Byron
    - 3 essays and the edition of a collection of essays on English diachronic translation studies
    - 3 essays on Italian loanwords in English and English loanwords in Italian

    Giovanni Iamartino has also co-edited (with Marialuisa Bignami and Carlo Pagetti) the Proceedings of the 1999 Conference of the Italian Association for English Studies, (with Robert Demaria Jr) a monograph issue of the journal Textus on Johnson's Dictionary, and (with John Considine) a collection of essays on historical English lexicology and lexicography. He recently edited a monograph issue of the journal SILTA on recent trends and research perspectives in English linguistics.
    He is also the editor of two books series: one on metalexicography (Lexicography worldwide: theoretical, descriptive and applied perspectives) and another on English synchronic and diachronic linguistics (English library: the Linguistics bookshelf), both published by Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher, Monza.

    Recent Publications

    Books

    with Robert DeMaria, Jr. (eds), Samuel Johnson's Dictionary and the eighteenth-century world of words, Textus. English Studies in Italy,19:1, 2006.
    with John Considine (eds), Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2007.
    with Maria Luisa Maggioni & Roberta Facchinetti (eds), Thou sittest at another boke... English Studies in Honour of Domenico Pezzini, Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher, Monza 2008.

    Articles

    (with Alessandra Vicentini), "'More is too much when fewer will serve': James Howell as a spelling reformer in 17th-century England", in J. Meddemen, The Standardizing of English, Viareggio-Lucca: Mauro Baroni editore, 2003, pp.125-137.
    "Icone del potere: Simbolo e realtà nei ritratti di Elisabetta I Tudor", in A. Giallongo, Donne di palazzo nelle corti europee. Tracce e forme di potere nell'età moderna, Milano: Unicopli, 2005, pp. 63-78.
    "Dal lessicografo al traduttore: un sogno che si realizza?", in Lessicografia bilingue e traduzione: metodi, strumenti, approcci attuali, a cura di Félix San Vicente, Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher, Monza 2006, pp. 101-132.
    "English Flour and Italian Bran: Johnson's Dictionary and the Reformation of Italian Lexicography in the Early Nineteenth Century",Textus. English Studies in Italy, 19:1, 2006 (Samuel Johnson's Dictionary and the eighteenth-century world of words, a cura di Giovanni Iamartino & Robert DeMaria, Jr.), pp.203-216.
    "What Johnson Means to Me", Johnsonian News Letter, 58:1, 2007, pp.18-21.
    (ed.), Linguistica Inglese: studi recenti e prospettive di ricerca, numero monografico di Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, 37: 1, 2008.