“Genealogy as Collage: Conjuring the Past in Italian Modernism”

Alessandro Giammei (Bryn Mawr College)

Alessandro is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where he is also affiliated with the Programs in Comparative Literature and Africana Studies. He was previously a Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton University, where he taught in the Department of French and Italian and coordinated the Humanities classes of the Prison Teaching Initiative. His work addresses trans-historical and interdisciplinary topics at the crossway of textual and visual studies, Renaissance and modernity. He is currently completing a book about Ludovico Ariosto’s multimedia legacy in the literary, visual, and political culture of the 20th century. His first book, Nell’officina del nonsense di Toti Scialoja, won the Harvard edition of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize in 2015.