Dott Antonio Tilli
Admissions Officer and Coordinator in Italian for Uniwide
Responsibilities
- Italian language, translation and interpreting all levels.
- Grammar lecture (Balp 1, Babe 1).
- Italian language (Uniwide1)
Background
Research
- Language variation and change (particularly at the level of phonetics and phonology and with relevance to Opera)
- Italian Opera (especially early works)
- Italian philology (accents and dialect acquisition)
- Usage-based phonetics/phonology
- The teaching of grammar and pronunciation
- Vowel/colour/register perception of poetic texts
- Folk customs of Italy and contemporary paganism.
- The literature of united Italy (1870- 1910): classicism, naturalism and verismo.
Publications
Tilli (2006). Italiani all’opera. A night at the opera, L’italiano europeo.
Tilli (2006). Lina Pietravalle e gli epigoni del Verismo. Orizzonti. Roma.
Tilli (2007). Tra un fiore colto e l’altro donato (in collaboration) Aletti. Rom.
Tilli (2008). La voce del silenzio. Aletti. Roma.
Tilli (2009). Alcina d’Ariosto à Haendel. Les letrres romanes. University of Groningen.
"Italiani all'opera" review of La Cenerentola by Rossini in "L'italiano europeo" 2005
"Lina Pietravalle e gli epigoni del verismo" in Orizzonti letterari no. 31 2007
"Tra un fiore colto e un altro donato" anthology of contemporary poets published by Aletti 2007
