“Svevo’s uomo senza qualità: Musil and Modernism in Italy,” Gender and Modernity in Central Europe: The Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and its Legacy. Ed. Agatha Schwarz. Ottawa: University of Ottawa, 2010. 83-101.
Category: Research
I work on Italian literature from a comparative perspective. Many of my articles and book chapters involve pairs of authors (Svevo and Shakespeare, Kafka and Primo Levi, Rilke and Slataper, Musil and Svevo, Lessing and Dante, Quarantotti Gambini and Joseph Roth).
Concepts, themes, and ideas that are central to my research: world literature, animal studies, Trieste and Austro-Italian (a transnational perspective), Jewish Studies (in terms of Italian literature and culture), modernism, issues of identity, and questions of form.
Italian authors I have written about and/or am working on: Italo Svevo, Igiaba Scego, Lalla Romano, Paola Capriolo, Natalia Ginzburg, Dino Buzzati, Elsa Morante, Antonio Tabucchi, Giorgio Manganelli, Helena Janeczek, Elena Ferrante, Claudio Magris, Tommaso Landolfi, Italo Calvino, Cesare Pavese.
“‘So, then people do come here in order to live’: Interiority in the Novels of Rainer Maria Rilke and Scipio Slataper,” The Comparatist. 33 (2009): 109-31.
“Svevo’s Dogs: Kafka and the Importance of Svevo’s Animals.” Italo Svevo and His Legacy for the Third Millennium. Vol. II. Eds. Giuseppe Stellardi and Emanuela Tandello Cooper. Leicester, UK: Troubador, 2014. 58-71.
“Morante and Kafka: The Gothic Walking Dead and Talking Animals.” Elsa Morante’s Politics of Writing: Rethinking 
Subjectivity, History and the Power of Art. Ed. Stefania Lucamante. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2015. 53-65.
