Roberto Ferrini graduated from the University of Pisa and the Scuola Normale Superiore with a thesis on early modern Italian chivalric literature. He has since published essays on authors such as Ludovico Ariosto, Moderata Fonte, and Lucrezia Marinella, and he is currently completing a PhD dissertation on the relationship between human beings and the natural environment in Sicilian narratives of the Risorgimento and post-Risorgimento period, with a particular focus on Giovanni Verga, Luigi Pirandello, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
“As my dissertation suggests, I am particularly interested in the ecocritical analysis of the representation of the natural world in narrative texts. My additional interests include early-modern women’s writing and the literary and philosophical production of Giacomo Leopardi”.