Manuela Bertone
Gadda First
Best Early Career Scholarly Work on Gadda
Panel 2 Judge
Manuela Bertone (A.M. and Ph.D., Harvard University) is Professor of Italian literature at the University Nice Sophia Antipolis. A former attaché with the French Embassy in Rome, she is currently Vice-President of the University Nice Sophia Antipolis in charge of European affairs. She is the author of Il romanzo come sistema. Molteplicità e differenza in C.E. Gadda (Rome, 1993) and Tomasi di Lampedusa (Palermo, 1995). With Robert S. Dombroski she edited the collection of essays Carlo Emilio Gadda. Contemporaray Perspectives (Toronto, 1997). She also published Gadda’s I Littoriali del lavoro e altri scritti giornalistici 1932-1941 (Pisa, 2005). She has written extensively on Italian and French literature for European and American scholarly journals. She is a member of the board of editors of Cahiers de Narratologie, Novecento and The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies. Her research interests include the modern and contemporary Italian novel, ideology in literature, French-Italian cultural relations.
