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 delivered by Raffaella Baccolini, a professor of Gender Studies and American and British Literature at the University of Bologna, Forlì Campus. Baccolini completed her PhD under the supervision of Susan Stanford Friedman, and has since published widely on women’s writing, H.D., modernism, dystopia and science fiction, trauma and memory, and Young Adult literature. The episode also includes a short introduction given by Jasmina Lukić, Professor with the Department of Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna and the Principal Leader for the EUTERPE project.

This lecture examines H.D.’s Trilogy (1944–1946) as a poetic response to the devastation of the London Blitz, where ruins and fragments become the ground for a visionary reimagining of culture and survival. Written amid destruction, Trilogy does not retreat into nostalgia but forges continuity through acts of remembrance and re-vision. Drawing on mythological, religious, and cultural palimpsests, H.D. enacts an alchemy of language that both records trauma and insists on the regenerative power of words.

This lecture was originally delivered on 17/09/2025 at the fifth biannual EUTERPE Doctoral School, held at The University of Bologna in Bologna, Italy.

The episode transcript can be accessed here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:b1d8e967-5a02-4d2c-a687-cbe6bb5453f3.

The accompanying lecture slides can be viewed here: https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:EU:dac1b378-434b-4f01-b2d3-097fe0e47001.

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.