I started my career with two master’s degrees in Criminology and Philosophy at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). I discovered the University of Catania as part of an Erasmus project, where I became a lecturer in French language and literature until 2012. I then took on various positions as a professor of philosophy and humanistic sciences at the Academy of Fine Arts Saint-Luc in Liège, until 2020. In parallel, I began my first experiences in research by collaborating with the French Departments of the State University of Minsk (Belarus), University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius (Slovakia) and the Eötvös Loránd University of Budapest (Hungary). I completed my previous training until 2020 with courses in Aesthetics and Psychoanalytic Studies in Montpellier 3 (distance learning), and with a master's degree in Langues et littératures françaises et romanes, at the University of Liège.
PhD project
Figures and ideas of crime in d’Annunzio’s narrative work (with Belgian and Sicilian perspectives and branches)
My project aims to highlight the depth and breadth of the criminal figures in d’Annunzio’s work and to arrive at an interpretation of them as imaginary conduct. Based on elements of psychoanalytic criminology and a hermeneutic approach, it also seeks to study crime in association with other themes specific to D’Annunzio’s prose, such as confession, and to understand how crime is treated within cultural representations of his era, in particular the criminological and philosophical ones.
The poet has been passionate about the “explosiveness” of the human soul since Terra vergine (1882), even if the period that is at the center of this research is the five-year period that runs along the first half of the decade of the nineties, in particular the years 1890 -1895, with narrative works such as: Giovanni Episcopo (1891), L'Innocente (1892) and Il Trionfo della morte (1894), which is the witness of the elective meeting with Nietzsche, through the well-known superomistic discourse but also a interesting treatment concerning the human problem of resistance to desire.
Within the same time frame and always targeting the figures of crime, we will attempt some comparative connections with French-speaking authors from Belgium and we will also try to strengthen our path by integrating some Sicilian works from the late nineteenth century.
The project is carried out under the joined supervision of Prof. G. Traina (Unict) and L. Curreri (University of Liège).
Other activities
From September 2020: Scientific collaborator at the Département de Langues et littératures romanes (Langue et littérature italiennes) of the University of Liège. The thesis is carried out in international cotutela with Liège.
Scientific collaborator at the French Language Department of the University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava (Slovakia) and the Xlinguae European scientific Linguistic Journal (research, organisation of conferences, correction of articles in French).
Collaborator in the Departments of Industrial Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication and Graphics at the Saint-Luc Academy of Fine Arts of Liège (Belgium).
[Years of the doctoral course]
- DELVAUX, J., « Artifices de langage et adaptations de classiques français : fabrique et mémoire d'une Bruxelles populaire », Revue d'études françaises n°24 (edited by D. Szabó, J.-P. Goudaillier, M. Kovács), Centre Interuniversitaire d'Études françaises of the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary, 2020, pp.139-153. ISSN : 1416-6399
- DELVAUX, J., « Quelques représentations de la Bruxelles populaire et dialectale dans la littérature, le théâtre et la bande dessinée », XIVe International Scientific and Practical Conference of the Faculty of Philology (edited by NN. Nizhneva), Minsk State University, Minsk, Belarus, 2021, pp.36-41. ISSN : 2519-4437
- DELVAUX, J., « Envoûtements jaloux et signes inféconds d'altérité. Approche d'un crime dannunzien sous influences françaises et russes », Proceedings of the Conference of 6 May 2021 : « Romania: linguistic and cultural heritage », Faculty of Philology of Minsk State University, Minsk, Belarus, 2021, pp.105-109. ISBN : 978-985-881-223-2
- DELVAUX, J., « Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo en ciné-roman-photo », Edited by L. Curreri and M. Delville in : Ancora qualcosina su fotoromanzo e dintorni. Atti di un sesto di giornata di studi, Nerosubianco, Cuneo, 2022. ISBN : 9788832035681/ ISSN : 2785-2636
- DELVAUX, J., « The Innocent : the transformation of Tolstoyan inspirations, from the novel by d'Annunzio to the film by Visconti », Proceedings of the Conference of 28-30 October 2021 in Grodno : "International scientific conference : Language. Communication. Culture" (edited by S.V. Adamovich and Al.), Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, M.V. Lomonosov State University of Moscow, Pedagogical State University of St. Petersburg, YurSaPrint, Grodno, Belarus, pp.35-44. ISBN : 978-985-7257-41-6
- DELVAUX, J., « "A CHI?". Confessione, gelosia e deliri nell'Innocente di Gabriele d'Annunzio », Proceedings of the XXIV Congress of the Association of Italianists, Catania, 23-25 September 2021 (edited by A. Manganaro, G. Traina, C. Tramontana), ADI, Rome, 2023. ISBN: 9788890790584