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• Literary and Narrative Theory
• Utopian Studies
• History and Fiction
• Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
• Italo Calvino

BOOKS

(with Paolo Chirumbolo): La rappresentazione del paesaggio nella letteratura e nel cinema dell’Italia contemporanea. Lewiston, NY (USA), Queenston, Ontario (Canada), Lampeter (UK): The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013; v + 415;

(with John Gibson and Wolfgang Huemer, eds.): A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative and Knowledge. New York and London: Routledge, 2007, xiv + 344.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Franco Arminio and the Heterotopia of Comunità Provvisoria.” In Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Italian Urban Space. Ed. Giulio Giovannoni and Silvia Ross. Firenze: DidaPress (Università di Firenze, Italy), 2019, 65-87;

“L’utopismo senza utopia di Italo Calvino.” In La Italia del siglo xix al xxi: literatura, crítica, historia, cultura. Ed. Sabina Longhitano. Ciudad de México: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. 2018, 11-20;

“Autobiografia di una nazione. Memory and the Italian Resistance.” In The Concept of Resistance in Italy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives. Ed. Maria Laura Mosco and Pietro Pirani. Lanham, London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield. 2017, 9-25;

“Introduzione.” In La rappresentazione del paesaggio nella letteratura e nel cinema dell’Italia contemporanea. Lewiston, NY (USA), Queenston, Ontario (Canada), Lampeter (UK): The Edwin Mellen Press, 2013, 1-18;

“Saviano e la new Italian po-ethic.” In Negli archivi e per le strade: il ritorno alla realtà nella narrativa d’inizio millennio. Ed. Luca Somigli. Rome: Aracne, 2013, 589-604;

“Discipline e indiscipline d’inizio millennio: note sulla tematica.” In What’s Next. Ed. Francesco Guardiani. Ottawa: Legas, 2009, 429-438;

“Literarische Themen und Erkenntnis” (“Literary Themes and Knowledge”). In Kunst Denken. Edited and translated by Alex Burri and Wolfgang Huemer. Paderborn: Mentis, December 2007, 201-216;

“The Return of the Repressed: Caring about Literature and Its Themes.” In A Sense of the World: Essays on Fiction, Narrative and Knowledge. Ed. John Gibson, Wolfgang Huemer and Luca Pocci. New York and London: Routledge, 2007, 89-103.

ARTICLES

“Violenza, potere e corpo politico in Calvino: La Decapitazione dei capi.” Annali d’italianistica. Vol. 35 (2017): 325-341;

“Tabucchi in the 1980s: The Phantasms of the Past in Il gioco del rovescio, Notturno indiano, and Piccoli equivoci senza importanza.” Italian Studies, 71:3 (August 2016): 1-15;

“Alla ricerca dell’ordinario: Celati, Arminio e la prosa del paesaggio” Contemporanea 10 (2013): 45-56;

“Ginzburg e Manzoni: Tra la storia e il romanzo.” Italica 89.2 (2012): 220-236;

“Io so: A Reading of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra.” MLN 126.1 (January 2011): 224-244;

“History, Parahistory and the Uses of Memory in Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words.” Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History 38.2 (Spring 2009): 151-172;

“La trilogia sulla città di Giuseppe Culicchia.” Forum Italicum 2 (Fall 2008): 313-334;

“Viaggio al termine dell’Italia: il reportage a tesi di Guido Ceronetti.” The Italianist 28.1 (May 2008): 137-161;

“Il fiume della scrittura: viaggio e romanzo saggio in Danubio di Claudio Magris.” Italian Culture XXIV-XXV (2006-07): 91-112; a translation of this article in Hungarian appears in Árgus 4/5, 2007 (Az írás folyama: Utazás és regény-esszé Claudio Magris Duna címũ könyvében, 102-119); 

“Between the Visible and the Invisible: Calvino’s Cities and Memory.” Quaderni d’italianistica XXVII.1 (2006): 109-23;

“Il signor Palomar, artigiano della meditazione.” Rivista di studi italiani 17.1 (1999): 286-307;

“Lubomír Doležel, Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds.” Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire 31 (Spring-Summer 1999): 97-102.

REVIEW ARTICLES

Jeannet, Angela M. Under the Radiant Sun and the Crescent Moon: Italo Calvino’s Storytelling. Rivista di studi italiani 19.1 (2002): 310-14;

Segre, Cesare. Ritorno alla critica. Literary Research/Recherche Littéraire 18 (Fall-Winter 2001): 510-13;

Belpoliti, Marco. L’occhio di Calvino. Rivista di studi italiani 16.1 (1998): 430-36.

TRANSLATIONS

(with Elias Polizoes): “The Jungle and the Niche” by Remo Bodei. Alphabet City 7. Ed. Cornelius Heester & Len Guenther. Toronto: Anansi, 2000, 160-9;

(with Elias Polizoes): “Naples, The Porous City: Massimo Cacciari Interviewed by Claudio Velardi.” Alphabet City 6. Ed. John Knechtel. Toronto: Anansi, 1998, 28-43.

WORK IN PROGRESS

A book on the concept of utopia in Italo Calvino’s fiction and critical essays.

THESES SUPERVISED

Diana Bychkova (Ph.D candidate, Comparative Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The University of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â Ontario – Joint Supervision with Doctor Vladimir Tumanov and Doctor Tim Blackmore). Title of the Thesis - “Embodiment of Creative Thought and Visual Logic in Bookmaking: An Example of Intermediality in Word-Picture Adaptation” (completed and successfully defended, June 2020);

Parastoo Nazrollahzadeh (MA candidate, Comparative Literature, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, The University of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â Ontario). Title of the Thesis - “Exploring Kitsch: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being” (completed and successfully defended, February 2018);

Roberta Cauchi Santoro “Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett.” PhD, Comparative Literature, 2013. Co-Supervision with Jonathan Boulter, Department of English, The University of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â Ontario.

AWARDS

2014-2015, Award of Excellence; University Students’ Council Teaching Honour Roll, The University of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â Ontario;

2010-2011, Award of Excellence; University Students’ Council Teaching Honour Roll, The University of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â Ontario;

2009-2010, Award of Excellence; University Students’ Council Teaching Honour Roll, The University of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â Ontario;

2006-2007, Award of Excellence; University Students’ Council Teaching Honour Roll, The University of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â Ontario;

2005-2006, Award of Excellence; University Students’ Council Teaching Honour Roll, The University of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â Ontario.