This lecture is dedicated to the memory of Susan Stanford Friedman.

Susan Stanford Friedman's work was seminal for the conception of EUTERPE, and we deeply grieve her passing. She was not only a highly respected and influential scholar, but also a special friend known for her warm personality and intellectual generosity. This lecture series was created in her honour, to celebrate her legacy and to keep her presence alive.

This episode features a lecture given by Kimberly Campanello, which weaves together her recent published and unpublished writing and her reading in neuroscience and literary criticism, including Susan Stanford Friedman’s writing on H.D., who has significantly influenced Campanello's work.

During the performance-lecture, the audience participated in a multilingual circumlocution activity, the prompts for this activity are included in the accompanying lecture slides for listeners who would like to follow along.

Kimberly Campanello is a poet, performer, and writer, and a professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. The performance-lecture includes an introduction given by Nicoletta Asciuto, a Senior Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of York, translator, and co-investigator at York for the EUTERPE consortium.

This lecture was originally delivered on 20/04/2025 at the fourth biannual EUTERPE Doctoral School, held at the University of York in York, United Kingdom.

The accompanying slides can be accessed here. The slides include the full titles of work by Campanello and others that are featured or referenced in the lecture.

Campanello’s “Paradiso 4” from “Beginning Imperfectly Wanting,” Book 1 of This Knot: a new version of Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K, dedicated to Nicoletta Asciuto, Bobby Alexandrova, and Alice Flinta, can be read here. Excerpts of this work were read by the poet during the lecture.

The episode transcript can be accessed here.

Please note that due to the performance aspect of the lecture some parts of the audio may be less clear than others.

For more information on Kimberly Campanello’s events and publications, see her official website https://www.kimberlycampanello.com/.

This episode is part of the EUTERPE podcast Library on European Literatures and Genders from a Transnational Perspective.

The podcast is powered by the European Union, UKRI, and the Central European University Library.

Grant Agreement: 101073012 EUTERPE HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01 Project.

For more information about the EUTERPE project please refer to the official project webpage https://www.euterpeproject.eu/, or follow us on Instagram @euterpe_project_ or Facebook at EUTERPE Doctoral Network Project.

This episode was edited by Evangeline Scarpulla.

Thank you to Alexander Walker for the music and to Alice Flinta for the voice over.

Thank you also to Ninutsa Nadirashvili and Kris Orszaghova for designing the podcast covers.

Photo Credit: Olivia Braggs.