Alessandro Giammei (he/him lui/tu) is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Yale. As a cultural philologist, he specializes in modern and contemporary literature and art, queering their fantasies of genealogical roots in renaissance, chivalric, and classical traditions. He is the author of several books, including Ariosto in the Machine Age (University of Toronto Press 2024), which won both the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the MLA and the AAIS Book Prize; Gioventù degli antenati: Il Rinascimento è uno zombie (Einaudi 2024); and Nell’officina del nonsense di Toti Scialoja (edizioni del verri 2014), which won the Edinburgh Gadda Prize. He curated and/or translated editions of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s writings on painting, Dario Villa’s and Giulia Niccolai’s poems, Lytton Strachey’s letters to Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle’s treatise on spirit photography, and Michela Murgia’s posthumous books. His public-facing work on masculinity includes the children’s book Cronache e leggende di ragazzi strani (il battello a vapore 2024) and the essays Cose da maschi (Einaudi 2023) and Parlare fra maschi (Einaudi 2025). He is completing a monograph on Shakespeare’s ghost in the philology, translatology, and spiritism of fascist Italy for Cambridge University Press.
Publications
forthc. Shakespearian Bibliography, Authorship, and Translation in Fascist Italy
Commissioned by Cambridge University Press for the series Cambridge Elements in Shakespeare & Text
forthc. Orlando furioso & Star Wars
Rome: Einaudi Stile Libero, under contract.
Parlare fra maschi: Stare insieme dentro & fuori gli stereotipi di genere
Turin: Einaudi
Copyright Date: 2025
Ariosto in the Machine Age
Toronto: University of Toronto Press
Copyright Date: 2024
Gioventù degli antenati: Il Rinascimento è uno zombie
Turin: Einaudi
Copyright Date: 2024
Cronache e leggende di ragazzi strani
Milan: Piemme - il battello a vapore
Copyright Date: 2024
Cose da maschi
Turin: Einaudi
Copyright Date: 2023
Nell’officina del nonsense di Toti Scialoja: Topi, toponimi, tropi, cronotopi
Milan: edizioni del verri
Copyright Date: 2014
Una serie ininterrotta di gesti riusciti: Esercizi su Il Grande Gatsby di Francis Scott Fitzgerald
Venice: Marsilio
Copyright Date: 2018