Enrico MARIANI

POST DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

2024     Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. Supervisor: prof.ssa Elisa Bordin. EU-funded project: Next-GenerationEU-PNRR-PRIN-CUP n. H53D23007010006 - Title: “Literary California 1884-2022: Spaces of Exception, Spaces of Disaster”.

CONTRACTS AS ADJUCNT PROFESSOR

2023-2024 Roma Tre University. Anglo-American Literature (9 credits, 36h)

2022-2023 University of Naples Federico II. Anglo-American Literature (6 credits, 36h)

FELLOWSHIPS

2022  Visiting scholar at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY, New York, winner of The Marianne DiPalermo McCauley Visiting Scholar Fellowship. Jul 20th-Oct 16th.

2022 Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and Dipartimento di Lingue, Letterature e Culture Straniere (Roma Tre University), winner of Alexandra De Luise Fellowship, Rome. Jun 13th-Jul 1st.

RECOGNIZED EXPERT IN ANGLOAMERICAN LITERATURE (UNPAID POSITION)

2024-2027: University of Cagliari. Department of Literautre, Languages and Cultural Heritage.

2024-2027: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Department of Comparative Languages and Cultural Studies.

2021-2024: Roma Tre Univerisity. Departiment of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

2019 – 13/07/2023: Ph.D. in Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Roma Tre Univerisity, 35° cicle

Dissertation title: “The haphazard Americanization”. The crisis of the melting pot in the autobiographical narratives of Louis Adamic, Carlos Bulosan and John Fante | Vote: Excellent.

2015 – 12/07/2018: MA Modern Philology, University of Siena

Titolo tesi: Beyond Bandini. John Fante's novels after the “embarrassing compromise” | Vote: cum laude.

2009 – 25/02/2015: BA in Modern Literatures, University of Cagliari

Titolo tesi: “Minimalism is not a good term”. Literary minimalism in the 1980s U.S. critical debate

VOLUME CONTRIBUTIONS

2023     “Discussing the Canon with John Fante and Carlos Bulosan: Immigrant Narratives as Sites of Memory”, in Ricostruire: i luoghi di memoria nelle Americhe, eds. G. Baggio, M. Bella, and A. Di Matteo (New York:Bordighera Press), 227-239.

2021     “Narrating Outside One’s Own Ethnic Descent: Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat and J. Fante’s Filipino Novel”, in Intertextuality: Intermixing Genres, Languages and Texts, eds. M. G. Dongu, L. Fodde, F. Iuliano, and C. Cao (Milan: Franco Angeli), 146-161.

ESSAYS

2024     “Dinamite, lotta di classe e acquedotti: narrazioni critiche su Los Angeles nell’opera di Louis Adamic”, Ácoma 26, 29-49. https://www.acoma.it/it/content/dinamite-lotta-di-classe-e-acquedotti-narrazioni-critiche-su-los-angeles-nell’opera-di-louis

2024     “The endless revolution of the Philippines in Gina Apostol’s novels”, From the European South 14, 117-130. https://www.fesjournal.eu/numeri/on-the-beat-owning-reclaiming-time-against-white-chronocentrism/the-endless-revolution-of-the-philippines-in-gina-apostols-novels/

2023     “L’ambiguità dei discorsi egemoni: su razza, etnia e classe sociale in The Road to Los Angeles di John Fante”, Campi Immaginabili 68-69, 449-465.

2020     “Etnicità allargate. Nuove prospettive sulle subalternità etniche e sociali nell’opera di John Fante”, América Crítica 4, no. 2, 183-185. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/americacritica/4348.

2018     “John Fante e la poetica del fallimento. Conflitti etnici e generazionali nella Los Angeles suburbana di My Dog Stupid”, América Crítica 2, no. 2, 123–138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/americacritica/3483.

BOOK REVIEWS

2023     “E. Pettener, Nel nome del padre, del figlio e dell’umorismo. I romanzi di John Fante”, Iperstoria 22, 434-439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2023.i22.1432.

2023     “A. Raveggi, Il Romanzo di Babele. La svolta multilingue in letteratura”, Between 13, no. 26, 277-282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/5991.

2022     “L. Grossberg, Gli studi culturali, il lavoro intellettuale e la pratica politica: Saggi 2015-2021”, Iperstoria 20, 463-467. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2022.i20.1289.

2019     “C. Francellini, Visible/Invisible. Incursioni nella narrativa italiana americana contemporanea”, Iperstoria 13, 178–182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2019.i13.488.

ORGANIZED PANELS

2023     “Hollywood’s Sins: Counter-hegemonic Discourses in U.S. Literature”, 27th AISNA Biennial Conference, 21-23 settembre, University of Perugia, Narni.

2022     “Connecting the Los Angeles Archipelago”, BAAS Annual Conference, 21-23 aprile, University of Hull (GB).

CONFERENCE PAPERS

2024     “Oil Derricks, Jackrabbits, and Workers in the Southern California Deserts: The Animality Discourse in Sinclair’s Oil!”, International Conference Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá De Henares (Madrid), Nov 25-27.

2024     “‘Big Chap with a Fine Presence’: W. G. Harding and the Teapot Dome Scandal in Upton Sinclair’s Oil!”, Conferenza: Writers and Presidents: The POTUS in US Fiction and Culture, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Edificio Marco Polo, Oct 25.

2024     “You Take Both Jobs”: Elaine Castillo’s Politics of Work Representation of a Filipinx American Community”, 35th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), Amerikahaus, Munich, Apr 4-6.

2024     “Re-thinking Ethnic Modernism: Multilingualism in Henry Roth and Pietro Di Donato”, Roundtable The Making of Expatriates: Cultural Flows and Adaptability, coordinators: Prof Mena Mitrano and Prof Max Saunders, Ca’ Foscari Univerisity of Venice, Apr 5 (online).

2024     “‘Water! Water! Water!’: Literary and Cinematic Representations of 20th Century’s Water Problem in Los Angeles”, International Conference Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World, University of Turin, Mar 21-22.

2023     “‘This work is a monumental pean to History”: autorialità e parodia dell’autorità nella letteratura di Gina Apostol”,Graduate Conference, Difetti d’autore: Forme e significati dell’autorialità, Roma Tre University, Rome, Nov 30 -Dec 1.

2023     “Re-Writing the Script: The Multimedia Strategies of the Novel in Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto”, 27th AISNA Biennial Conference, University of Perugia, Narni (TR), Sept 21-23.

2023     “Claiming the Footnotes: Metafictions of Spanish and American Colonialisms in Gina Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata”, Sapienza Graduate Conference, Horizons of Marginality, La Sapienza University of Rome, May 11.

2022     “Synecdoche, Los Angeles: the City as Representative of the USA in the Semi-autobiographies of Carlos Bulosan and Louis Adamic”, BAAS Annual Conference, University of Hull (GB), Apr 21-23.

2021     “‘The Enormous Village’: Conflicts and Synergies in Louis Adamic’s Debunking of 1920s Los Angeles”, 26th AISNA Biennial Conference, University of L’Aquila, Spet 23-25.

2021     “Pratiche di discussione del canone: la memoria letteraria in John Fante e Carlos Bulosan”, IV Convegno Internazionale CRISA (Interdepartment Center for American Studies), Roma Tre University (online), May 24-26.

2021     “Fighting for Citizenship in the 1930s: Filipino American Conflicts in the Narratives of Carlos Bulosan and John Fante”, 2nd AISNA Graduate Conference, Centro Studi Americani, Rome, May 6 (online).

2021     “Narrating Outside One’s Own Ethnic Descent: Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat and J. Fante’s Filipino Novel”, English and Anglo-American Studies Seminar, Intertextuality: Intermixing Genres, Languages and Texts, University of Cagliari, Feb 15–Mar 3 (online).

2017     “John Fante's Mature Poetics through the Genesis of The Brotherhood of the Grape”, Italian American Studies Association (IASA) International Symposium, Theorizing the Italian Diaspora, University of Calabria, Arcavacata, Jun 15-18.

LECTURES, SEMINARS, GATHERINGS

2024     Lecture: “'I'm glad I'm not a hog': Animality and Socialism in Sinclair's The Jungle and Oil!". Joint Lecture Series “Environment(s): Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives”. European Joint Master’s Programme in English and American Studies, Jagiellonian University (Kraków), Dec 11 (online).

2024     Lecture: “Oil Derricks, Jackrabbits, and Workers in the Southern California Deserts: Understanding Los Angeles Through Sinclair’s Oil!”. Graduate Seminar “Literary California, 1884-2022: Spaces of Exception, Spaces of Disaster”. Roma Tre University, Department of Political Sciences, coordinated by Prof. Nicolangelo Becce and Agnese Marino, Ph.D., Dec 2.*

2024     Lecture: “Water Rights of Los Angeles”. Class American Cultural Studies 2, by Prof. Elisa Bordin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Apr 19.*

2023     “Italian Scenes in Gina Apostol’s Novels: la scrittrice Gina Apostol in dialogo con Enrico Mariani”. Interview with writer Gina Apostol. Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar 2023 (DLLCS Università Roma Tre in collaboration with John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY). Centro Studi Americani (Center For American Studies), Rome, Jun 21.

* EU funded events – Next-GenerationEU-PNRR-PRIN-CUP n. H53D23007010006 - Title “Literary California 1884-2022: Spaces of Exception, Spaces of Disaster”.

OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES

2024     Feb 13, Mar 5. Lectures: “‘The Real Thing’: Ernest Hemingway e il legame tra letteratura e vita,” delivered to Rome high school students as part of governmental initiative for public schools, Centro Studi Americani (Center For American Studies), Rome.

2022     Feb 18, Nov 30, Dec 06. Lectures: “Gli anni Settanta: femminismo, multiculturalità e pacifismo – fra musica, cinema e letteratura” delivered to Rome high school students as part of governmental initiative for public schools, Centro Studi Americani (Center For American Studies), Rome.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Editorial Board of “Quaderni del Centro Studi Americani”, edizioni Agorà & Co.

Peer reviewer for Ácoma, JAmIT!

OTHER ACTIVITIES

2020     Italian translation for supra-titles of the play When We Went Electronic (by Caitlin Saylor Stevens, dir. Meghan Finn) for the theatrical festival “OnStage!” 2021, inside Roma Tre University project “La traduzione per il teatro” (Translation for Theater): http://onstagefestival.it/project/when-we-went-electronic/.