University of Virginia Spanish, Italian & Portuguese

Associate Professor of Italian

Research: 19th and 20th century Italian literature, avant-garde movements.

Responsibilities: Resident Director, ‘Shea House’ (a multilingual student residence on campus); Director of Graduate Recruiting; Faculty liason, ‘UVA Italian Club.’

ENRICO CESARETTI is an Associate Professor of Italian at UVA. He holds a Laurea in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German) from the University of Pisa (Italy), a MA from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D from Yale University. His research mostly focuses on 19th and 20th century Italian literature, film and popular culture.

Selected publications:

Castelli di carta: retorica della dimora tra Scapigliatura e Surrealismo, Ravenna, Longo Editore, 2001.

““A New Home for Italians? A Literal and Metaphorical Interpretation of National Identity within the Context of ‘Scapigliatura’” in Forum for Modern Language Studies, special issue on Italian National Identity, 38, 2 (2002): 140-54.

“‘Il giocattolo futurista’: Futurism and fumetti” in Romance Studies 21 (2003):191-202.

“Back to the Future: Temporal Ambivalences in F. T. Marinetti’s writings”, in the volume Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadence and Avant-Garde, ed. by M. Moroni and L. Somigli, University of Toronto Press, 2004, pp. 243-66.

Consuming Texts: Creation and Self-effacement in Kafka and Palazzeschi,” Comparative Literature 56 (2004): 243-66.

“The Language of Passion: Silence and Melodrama in N. Tommaseo’s Fede e bellezza” in Modern Language Notes 119 (2004): 52-66.

“Palazzeschi’s ‘:Riflessi’: Writing as Erasure,” The Modern Language Review 99.4 (2204): 946-60.

“Dyspepsia as Dystopia: F.T. Marinetti’s ‘Le Roi Bombance’” in Romanic Review (forthcoming).

“‘Oh, la disobbedienza?!’. Meditazioni du una novella giovanile di Grazia Deledda,” in Italica (forthcoming).