SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books in Progress
- Homo Legens: Modes and Moods of Reading.
Edited Volumes
- Rivers of the Americas. Co-edited with Uwe Lübken. Special issue of Review of International American Studies (RIAS), vol. 14, no. 1, 2021. Read the full issue.
Journal Articles, Essays, and Book Chapters
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“Scene d’acqua nella
letteratura del Rinascimento americano. Il Maelström di Poe e il lago di
Thoreau” [“Water Scenes in American Renaissance Literature: Poe’s Maelström and
Thoreau’s Pond”]. Oltreoceano, vol. 22, 2023. (Forthcoming).
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“Pound e/o McLuhan:
ideogrammi e mosaici per l’età elettrica” ["Pound and/or McLuhan: Ideograms and Mosaics
for the Electric Age"]. La libertà dell'intelligenza. Ezra Pound, un
intellettuale tra intellettuali. Eds. Roberta Capelli and Alice Ducati. Milan: Ares, 2023. 17-43. Order the book. Read a review by Luca Gallesi in Il Giornale. Read a review by Mario Baudino in La Stampa. Read a review by Simone Paliaga in Avvenire.
- "Sesso, mediasfera e short fiction ai tempi del #MeToo: 'Cat Person' di Kristen Roupenian" ["Sex, Mediasphere, and Short Fiction in the Time of #MeToo: Kristen Roupenian's 'Cat Person'"]. Iperstoria, vol. 20, 2022. 199-212. Read the article.
- "Tre lettori di Pound nell'Italia di oggi: Agamben, Montesano, Magris" ["Three Readers of Pound in Contemporary Italy: Agamben, Montesano, Magris"]. Annali di Ca' Foscari. Serie occidentale, vol. 56, 2022. 159-176. Read the article.
"Crisi Americane: Paine, Hawthorne, Thoreau" ["American Crises: Paine, Hawthorne, Thoreau"]. Lingue, Culture, Mediazioni, vol. 9, no. 1, 2022. 125-139. Read the article.
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“Gli zoomanti: insegnare la letteratura
americana ai tempi del Covid-19” [“Zoomers: Teaching American Literature in the
Time of Covid-19”]. Altre Modernità, vol. 27, 2022. 213-224. Read the article.
- “‘Down beside Where
the Waters Flow’: Reclaiming Rivers for American Studies.” Co-authored with Uwe
Lübken. Rivers of the Americas, special issue of Review of
International American Studies (RIAS), vol. 14, no. 1, 2021. 13-24. Read the article.
- “Philip K. Dick e l’alba delle macchine antropomimetiche:
penso, dunque sono… ma che cosa?" [“Philip K. Dick and the Dawn of the
Anthropomimetic Machines: I Think, Therefore I Am... What?"]. Umanesimo
e rivolta in Blade Runner. Ridley
Scott vs Philip K. Dick. Eds. Alessandro Clericuzio, Giorgio Pangaro, and
Luigi Cimmino. Bari: Rubbettino, 2015. 33-45. Read an excerpt.
- “Toward an American Hauntology: Intermedial Ghosts in
Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
and Louise Erdrich’s Tracks.” Europe Facing Inter-Asian Cultural,
Literary, Historical and Political Situations. Eds. Elisabetta Marino and Lina Unali. Rome: UniversItalia, 2014. 197-209. Read an excerpt.
- "Native American
Responses to America: William Apess and Leslie Marmon Silko.” Narrating American Gender and Ethnic
Identities. Eds. Aleksandra Rozalska and Grazyna Zygadlo. Newcastle upon
Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. 209-216. Read an excerpt.
- "Tracce spettrali. Scrittura, gender e memoria nei racconti di fantasmi di Edith Wharton
["Spectral Traces: Writing, Gender, and Memory in Edith Wharton’s Ghost
Stories”]. Ácoma: International Journal of
North-American Studies, n.s., vol. 1, 2011. 125-133. Read the abstract.
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“Fluid Destiny: Memory and Signs in Thomas
Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49."
Against the Grain: Reading Pynchon's
Counternarratives. Ed. Sascha Pöhlmann. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2010. 251-262. Read an excerpt.