Patrizia Lombardo has taught at Princeton University, University of Southern California Los Angeles, University of Pittsburgh and University of Geneva. She is now Emeritus Professor in the Department of French at the University of Geneva where she has been leading since 2009 the Project “Aesthetic Emotions and Affective Dynamics” at the Interdisciplinary Center for Affective Sciences . She has published scholarly articles on French 19th and 20th century literature, literary criticism and literary theory, comparative literature, aesthetics, history of ideas, and theories of emotions.

GENERAL INFORMATION
Coordinator of the Aesthetic Emotions Foci

Project Leader Affective Dynamics and Aesthetic Emotions

Personal Webpage here

NOTE
After undergraduate and post-graduate studies in Venice, Oxford, Paris, Patrizia Lombardo received her doctoral degree in 1981 in literature at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She taught at Princeton University, University of Southern California Los Angeles, Pittsburgh University. She teaches French literature, Comparative literature and Film at the University of Geneva.

CURRENT RESEARCH
She is now working on theories of emotions in Hazlitt and Stendhal; on thought experiments in Baudelaire; on film aesthetics and the role of imagination.

www.unige.ch/lettres/framo/enseignant/lombardo/