Biographical note

Gabriele Poole was born in Naples, Italy, on August 15, 1963. His father is from Arlington in the United States and his mother is from Naples, Italy. He spent part of his childhood in the US before his family moved back to Italy . He studied English and Swedish languages and literatures at the Istituto Universitario Orientale in Naples, then moved to the States for a few years, where he studied English literature at University of Notre Dame and was Research Assistant for Prof. Joseph Buttigieg, his main job being helping out with the translation into English of Antonio Gramsci's Prison Notebooks. He obtained an M.A. in 1991 and returned to Italy where he continued his studies at Università "La Sapienza" in Rome, obtaining a Dottorato di Ricerca ("doctoral degree") in "Literatures of English-Speaking Countries" in 1996. In 1998, he finished his Ph.D. at University of Notre Dame, with a major in Critical Theory, and minors in 19th and 20th century English Literature. His dissertation is on the works of Lord Byron, particularly on the dialogic relations between the figure of the Byronic hero and the stylistic, narrative, psychological and political features of the works.

As translator, he has worked for more than twenty years in various fields. As research consultant he has worked for Carrefour Lazio, part of the European Carrefour Network, and Fondazione Censis. For Carrefour Lazio, from 2000 to 2005 he directed project NORIA (Nuovo Osservatorio delle Risorse per l'Agricoltura), supervising the research along with Dr. Marco Baldi of the Censis Foundation and designing the associated website (www.noria.lazio.it) along with programmer Dr. Luca Morandini . 

From 1997 to 2005, he taught English language as Language Expert (CEL) at University of Cassino. From 2005, he has been teaching at the same university as Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) of English Language and Translation.

He is currently working on a translation of a selection of poems by John Matthias.

Curriculum vitae

Selected publications:

Feel free to download my publications (some are in Italian and some in English). Please note however that the texts here provided may not correspond fully to the published ones, due to corrections made at proof stage. If you wish to quote me, especially verbatim, you should refer to the actual publications or write me for confirmation of the quote. Besides the publications below, my English translations of Italian poems are available in the Italian section of www.poetryinternational.org

   
2010 “The Byronic Hero: Leadership and Theatricality”. In Byron Journal 38.1 (giugno 2010).
2009  “La retorica della libertà nelle Turkish Tales”. In I linguaggi della guerra, a cura di Valerio Magrelli. Caserta: Edizioni Spartaco. 113-125.
2008 Poesie di John Matthias. Traduzione, cura e commentario di Gabriele Poole. Napoli: Dante e Descartes.
    " "The Language of Freedom and the Politics of Language in Byron's Mazeppa". In Liberty and Poetic Licence. New Essays on Byron. A cura di Bernard Beatty e Charles Robinson. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2008.
2007 "'A Face to Meet the Faces that You Meet': Identity in Sardanapalus': Paper given at the XXIII International Byron Conference - Venice July 7 - 12 2007.
2005 Il Corso di Linguistica Generale e i suoi interpreti: Tre definizioni di arbitrarietà. Roma: Palombi, 2005.
    " "Teatro e identità nel Buddha dei Suburbia”. In L’attore nel teatro . Ed.  by Agostino Lombardo. Roma: Bulzoni, 2005.
    " Il Giaurro, di George Gordon Byron. Traduzione. In Trame 8/9 (2004): 368-392.
    " “Il segreto degli abissi: La prima versione manoscritta del Giaurro”. In Trame 8/9 (2004): 345-368.
    " "The Language of Freedom and the Politics of Language in Byron's Mazeppa". In Liberty and Poetic Licence. New Essays on Byron. By Bernard Beatty e Charles Robinson. Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2003.
2003 Le aree di montagna in Italia. Rapporto finale. Roma Censis, 2003. (Parte italiana di un studio commissionato alla società Nordregio, dalla DG Regio della Commissione Europea)
2002 Ipotesi di provincia del Lazio Meridionale. Introduzione di Marco Baldi e Massimiliano Valerii. Roma: Fondazione Censis: 2002.
2000 “Byron Reporter”. Paper read at the Conference “La Letteratura di Viaggio”, 16-21 gennaio, Università di Cassino. 2000.
    " "'Hidden Secrets': The First Manuscript Version of the Giaour". In A Poet for All Seasons: Proceedings of the 25th International Byron Conference, ed. Marios Byron Raizis (Messolonghi, Greece: Messolonghi Byron Society, 2000): 76-89.
      " "Eroi allo specchio: il Sardanapalus di Byron". In Giochi di Specchi. Ed by Agostino Lombardo. Roma: Bulzoni, 1999.
1998 Byron's Heroes and the Byronic Hero. Dissertation. U of Notre Dame, 1998. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1998. 9835541.
1997 "Rime tempestose: ambivalenza e ibridizzazione nella Ballata del vecchio Marinaio". In Giornale di Bordo. Ed by Agostino Lombardo. Roma: Bulzoni, 1997.
1996 "'Blasted Niggers': The Emperor Jones and Modernism's Encounter with Africa". Eugene O'Neill Review, 18 (1995): 21-37. 1996
1995 "Il cielo oltre le sbarre". In La Figlia Che Piange. Ed by Agostino Lombardo. Roma: Bulzoni, 1995.
    "  Review of Love, Thought, and Language, by John Ellis,  Philosophy and  Literature 19, 1 (1995): 142-143.