Ricerc@Sapienza

My main research interests focus on postmodernism in literature, theory, and popular culture, with particular attention to the works of Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, Paul Auster, and William T. Vollmann. I also study postwar and contemporary American fiction, especially Vladimir Nabokov, Bernard Malamud, Philip Roth, and Cormac McCarthy, especially in relation to nineteenth-century U.S. history and literary traditions.
Another major area of research concerns the dialectic between skepticism, confidence, and authorship, examined from political, historical, philosophical, and religious perspectives, in Herman Melville’s prose and poetry.
I am equally interested in the language of comics and graphic novels, particularly their historical and formal connections with prose fiction. My work also explores experimental narrative forms such as autofiction, postmemorial writing, and historiographic metafiction as strategies to reimagine history and challenge more traditional models of representation.
In addition, I investigate the transnational circulation of American literature, focusing in particular on the relationship between U.S. writers and the Italian publishing field, with special attention to the reception, translation, and editorial history of authors such as Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip Roth.
I am currently developing an international research project on the global rise of post-truth.