Giuseppe Stellardi
The Crolla Amato Gadda Prize
Best Published Scholarly Work on Gadda
Panel 1 Judge
Giuseppe Stellardi was born near Cremona, studied at the Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia and obtained his doctorate in Paris. He then taught in the Universities of Cape Town and Lancaster, before joining the Italian Department at Oxford, where he currently works. He is a Fellow of St. Hugh’s College. His main research interests lie in modern Italian literature, literary theory and continental philosophy. He has written on Dossi, Tarchetti, Michelstaedter, Svevo, Gadda, Moravia, Morante, Eco; also, on Deconstruction (Derrida), and on metaphor. He has published a book on metaphor in Derrida and Heidegger, and one on the work of Carlo Emilio Gadda, as well as (with W. Snyman) a translation into English of Carlo Michelstaedter’s La persuasione e la rettorica.
