“Poetics of Visibility. Carlo Emilio Gadda and the Visual Arts”

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Eloisa Morra (U. Toronto)

Eloisa Morra’s publications explore interdisciplinary issues at the crossroad of textual and visual studies, modernity and the Renaissance, classicism and experimentalism. She is the author of “Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja” (Quodlibet 2014, Special mention Edinburgh Gadda Prize) and the editor of two volumes: “Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy” (Brill 2019) and “Paesaggi di parole. Toti Scialoja e i linguaggi dell’arte” (Carocci: 2019). Eloisa earned a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University and a B.A. and M.A. from the Scuola Normale Superiore. At Harvard she taught at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures and co-curated a research exhibition and several projects at the Harvard Art Museums. In addition to scholarly papers and essays in English and Italian, Eloisa published literary translations and a number of articles and op-eds for national newspapers and magazines.