Pia MASIERO

Position
Full Professor
Roles
Delegate for Teaching
Vice Director of the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Telephone
041 234 9432
E-mail
masiero@unive.it
Scientific sector (SSD)
Letterature anglo-americane [ANGL-01/B]
Website
www.unive.it/people/masiero (personal record)
Office
Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dslcc
Where: Ca' Bernardo

[Short CV]

Pia Masiero is full professor of North-American literature at the University of Venice, Ca’ Foscari. During her PhD, she studied at the University of California, Irvine.

Her first works concern African-American literature and William Faulkner’s short fiction. Her research interests span Nathaniel Hawthorne and the American Renaissance, Faulkner and contemporary US and Canadian literature (Paul Auster, Philip Roth, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje and David Foster Wallace). Lately she has worked on the experience of reading and the mechanisms that trigger empathy using both second generation post-classical narratology and cognitive sciences.  

 

She is author of Philip Roth and the Zuckerman Books, 2011 and Names across The Color Line: William Faulkner’s Short Fiction 1932-1941.