Dr Giuseppe Episcopo
Edinburgh Gadda Prize Secretary (Edinburgh International)
Scottish Gadda Juniors
Panel 4 Judge
Preselection Chair
Giuseppe Episcopo (PhD Candidate in Italian, Edinburgh University; IPSE Member; EJGS Decennial Special Editorial Assistant; EJGS Decennial Special Events Team Member) has a PhD in Modern Philology (Naples University, Federico II).
Episcopo was Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and is on the editorial boards of Italian Poetry Review and l’espressione. He edited and translated Fredric Jameson’s Brecht and Method. He has written on F. Tozzi, J.R. Wilcock, W. Goyen, A. Schmidt, Th. Pynchon and S. D’Arrigo in books and journals such as Strumenti critici and Intersezioni. His current PhD thesis (Narrative Modes and Modern Science during the Second Half of XX Century: The Italian Case – supervisor Professor Federica G. Pedriali) looks at the link between science and literature from a narratological perspective and examines narrative forms of discourse from the hyperbolic geometry perspective described by Benoît Mandelbrot.
Recent publications include: Le infrazioni alla continuità temporale e la dimensione del mito in «Gravity’s Rainbow» e «Horcynus Orca», in Intersezioni (forthcoming, 2010); Realismo e rappresentabilità del capitale. Postface to Fredric Jameson, Brecht e il metodo (Cronopio, 2008), 233-257; La scrivania di Tyrone Slothrop. Guerra, storia e cinema nella narrazione postmoderna, in Strumenti critici, XXIII, n° 116 (2008): 111-131; Il fantasma e lo straniero, due modi di scomparire. Il corpo in frammenti in «Gravity’s Rainbow» e in «O Fantasma», in C. Lombardi (ed.), Il personaggio. Figure della dissolvenza e della permanenza (Edizioni dell’Orso 2008), 405-411.
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