Judith Woolf

Research

Overview

My major research interest during the last fifteen years has been in twentieth-century Italian-Jewish writing, concentrating on autobiography, fiction and documentary accounts relating to the period from the rise of Fascism to the end of the Second World War. I also have research interests in three other areas: life writing; Victorian and early twentieth-century photography and fiction; and narrative patterns in European literature. I am particularly interested in how women are represented and represent themselves, which has led to an ongoing research project on the influence of the camera on the creation and projection of public and private images of women from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1940s.

In addition to academic writing, my publications include novels, translations from Italian and a book of poems and photographs. I have also written libretti for music by Roger Marsh and Marian Ingoldsby as well as a great deal of performance verse.

Projects

I am currently working on a monograph looking at in theme of persecution and survival in twentieth century Jewish-Italian writing.