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Full Academic CV

Below I have organized my scholarly publications around different topics or themes that I focus on in my work. Since many of these publications fit into more than one category, you might see the same piece referred to multiple times. If you’d rather just have a list of all my publications chronologically, click on the button above for my standard academic CV.

Modernism & Avant-Gardes

Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. (Open-Access E-Book Available)
“Meta-theatrical Comedy: Pirandello’s Existential Humour and the Italian Avant-Garde.” Forum for Modern Language Studies, 58.3 (2022): 374-390.
“Dehumanized Affect: Modernist Performance and the Cultivation of Aesthetic Sensibility.” European Drama and Performance Studies, 18.2 (2021): 339-360.
“Acting Aestheticism, Performing Decadence: The Cinematic Fusion of Art and Life.” Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 2.2 (2019): 1-20.
“Modernism at War: Pirandello and the Crisis of (German) Cultural Identity.” Annali d’Italianistica, 34 (2015): 75-97.
“Grotesque Critique and Salutary Humour: Pirandello against the teatro grottesco?” Pirandello Studies, 35 (2015): 41-55.
“Vital Theater: Pirandello, Marinetti, and Lebensphilosophie.” PSA, 23 (2010): 11-43.
Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy: Imagination and Thought across Media. Co-edited with Lisa Sarti. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.

Decadence

D’Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception. Edited with Elisa Segnini. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
“Reawakening Beauty: Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Seduction of the Senses.” Edited with Lara Raffaelli. Special Issue of Forum Italicum, 51:2 (August 2017).
“Dehumanized Affect: Modernist Performance and the Cultivation of Aesthetic Sensibility.” European Drama and Performance Studies, 18.2 (2021): 339-360.
“Acting Aestheticism, Performing Decadence: The Cinematic Fusion of Art and Life.” Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 2.2 (2019): 1-20: https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/volupte/article/view/1336/1459
“Diva Decadence: Conflicted Modernity from Death to Regeneration.” In The Poetics of Decadence in Fin de Siècle Italy. Eds. Stefano Evangelista, Valeria Giannantonio, and Elisabetta Selmi. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017; pp. 273-298.
“The Seduction of Innocence: Erotic Aesthetics from Kierkegaard to Decadentism.” In Innocence Uncovered: Literary and Theological Perspectives. Eds. Beth Dodd and Carl E. Findley. London and New York: Routledge, 2017; pp. 58-75.
“The Meaning of Acting in the Age of Cinema: Benjamin, Pirandello, and the Italian Diva from Stage to Screen.” Comparative Literature, 68.3 (Fall 2016): 312-331.

Literature & Philosophy

Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
Scrittura d’immagini: Pirandello e la visualità tra arte, filosofia e psicoanalisi. Authored with Carlo Di Lieto and Lisa Sarti. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2021.
Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy: Imagination and Thought across Media. Edited with Lisa Sarti. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
L’innamorato, by Brunoro Zampeschi. Edited withArmando Maggi, Sarah Christopher-Faggioli, and Chiara Montanari. Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 2010.
“Dehumanized Affect: Modernist Performance and the Cultivation of Aesthetic Sensibility.” European Drama and Performance Studies, 18.2 (2021): 339-360.
“The Seduction of Innocence: Erotic Aesthetics from Kierkegaard to Decadentism.” In Innocence Uncovered: Literary and Theological Perspectives. Eds. Beth Dodd and Carl E. Findley. London and New York: Routledge, 2017; pp. 58-75.
“Transforming Plato: Tommaso Campanella’s La città del sole, the Republic, and Socrates as Natural Philosopher.” Bruniana & Campanelliana, 17.2 (2011): 417-434.
“From Philosophical Theory to Literary Praxis: The Question of Love in L’innamorato.” In L’innamorato, by Brunoro Zampeschi. Eds. Armando Maggi, et. al. Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 2010; pp. 221-238.
“Vital Theater: Pirandello, Marinetti, and Lebensphilosophie.” PSA, 23 (2010): 11-43.

Fantasy & Imagination

Scrittura d’immagini: Pirandello e la visualità tra arte, filosofia e psicoanalisi. Authored with Carlo Di Lieto and Lisa Sarti. Soveria Mannelli: Rubbettino, 2021.
Pirandello’s Visual Philosophy: Imagination and Thought across Media. Edited with Lisa Sarti. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
“Pirandello’s Mother: Feminine Perception and Double Vision.” PSA, 26 (2013): 71-95.

Early Cinema & Silent Film

“Cinematic Idealism: Modernist Visions of Spiritual Vitality Mediated by the Machine.” In Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
“Acting Aestheticism, Performing Decadence: The Cinematic Fusion of Art and Life.” Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 2.2 (2019): 1-20: https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/volupte/article/view/1336/1459
“Diva Decadence: Conflicted Modernity from Death to Regeneration.” In The Poetics of Decadence in Fin de Siècle Italy. Eds. Stefano Evangelista, Valeria Giannantonio, and Elisabetta Selmi. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017; pp. 273-298.
“The Meaning of Acting in the Age of Cinema: Benjamin, Pirandello, and the Italian Diva from Stage to Screen.” Comparative Literature, 68.3 (Fall 2016): 312-331.

Divas, Actors, Performance

“Meta-theatrical Comedy: Pirandello’s Existential Humour and the Italian Avant-Garde.” Forum for Modern Language Studies, 58.3 (2022): 374-390: https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqac050
“Dehumanized Affect: Modernist Performance and the Cultivation of Aesthetic Sensibility.” European Drama and Performance Studies, 18.2 (2021): 339-360.
“Acting Aestheticism, Performing Decadence: The Cinematic Fusion of Art and Life.” Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 2.2 (2019): 1-20: https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/volupte/article/view/1336/1459
“L’isola come ritmo della vita: adattamenti postmoderni della creazione pirandelliana.” In Luigi Pirandello e un mondo da ridisegnare. Eds. Gabriella Caponi, Fausto De Michele, Michael Rössner, and Alessandra Sorrentino. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017; pp. 181-214.
“Diva Decadence: Conflicted Modernity from Death to Regeneration.” In The Poetics of Decadence in Fin de Siècle Italy. Eds. Stefano Evangelista, Valeria Giannantonio, and Elisabetta Selmi. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017; pp. 273-298.
“The Meaning of Acting in the Age of Cinema: Benjamin, Pirandello, and the Italian Diva from Stage to Screen.” Comparative Literature, 68.3 (Fall 2016): 312-331.
“Grotesque Critique and Salutary Humour: Pirandello against the teatro grottesco?” Pirandello Studies, 35 (2015): 41-55.
“Vital Theater: Pirandello, Marinetti, and Lebensphilosophie.” PSA, 23 (2010): 11-43.

Magic, Esotericism, the Occult

“Occult Spiritualism and Modernist Idealism: Reanimating the Dead World.” In Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021.
“L’isola come ritmo della vita: adattamenti postmoderni della creazione pirandelliana.” In Luigi Pirandello e un mondo da ridisegnare. Eds. Gabriella Caponi, Fausto De Michele, Michael Rössner, and Alessandra Sorrentino. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017; pp. 181-214.
“Transforming Plato: Tommaso Campanella’s La città del sole, the Republic, and Socrates as Natural Philosopher.” Bruniana & Campanelliana, 17.2 (2011): 417-434.

Gender and Sexuality

“Acting Aestheticism, Performing Decadence: The Cinematic Fusion of Art and Life.” Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 2.2 (2019): 1-20: https://journals.gold.ac.uk/index.php/volupte/article/view/1336/1459
“Diva Decadence: Conflicted Modernity from Death to Regeneration.” In The Poetics of Decadence in Fin de Siècle Italy. Eds. Stefano Evangelista, Valeria Giannantonio, and Elisabetta Selmi. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2017; pp. 273-298.
“The Seduction of Innocence: Erotic Aesthetics from Kierkegaard to Decadentism.” In Innocence Uncovered: Literary and Theological Perspectives. Eds. Beth Dodd and Carl E. Findley. London and New York: Routledge, 2017; pp. 58-75.
“Pirandello’s Mother: Feminine Perception and Double Vision.” PSA, 26 (2013): 71-95.
“Heroic Sainthood: Lucrezia Marinella’s Genealogy of the Medici Aristocracy and Saint Catherine’s ‘gesti eroici’ as a Rewriting of the Gender of Virtue.” In De’ gesti eroici e della vita maravigliosa della serafica S. Caterina da Siena, by Lucrezia Marinella. Ed. Armando Maggi. Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 2011; pp. 165-194.
“From Philosophical Theory to Literary Praxis: The Question of Love in L’innamorato.” In L’innamorato, by Brunoro Zampeschi. Eds. Armando Maggi, et. al. Ravenna, Italy: Longo, 2010; pp. 221-238.
D’Annunzio and World Literature: Multilingualism, Translation, Reception. Edited with Elisa Segnini. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.

Translation Studies and Digital Humanities

“Tradurre Luigi Malerba: ‘romanità’ e mercato internazionale.” Authored with Miriam Aloisio. Avanguardia, 67 (2018): 65-85.
“Digital Pirandello: The Edizione Nazionale dell’Opera Omnia di Luigi Pirandello, Online.” Pirandello Studies, 41 (2021): 146-153.
“Reimagining Transnationalism in the Global Academy.” Edited with Jennifer Reimer. Special Issue of New Global Studies, IX, 3 (December 2015).
Stories for a Year. Open Access Scholarly Edition and First English Translation of Luigi Pirandello’s Novelle per un anno. Edited and Directed with Lisa Sarti. www.pirandellointranslation.org (2021-Present).