Florian Mussgnug
Gadda First
Best Early Career Scholarly Work on Gadda
Panel 2 Judge
Florian Mussgnug (BA, MSt, Perf. Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa) is Lecturer in Italian Literature at University College London where he also convenes the MA in Comparative Literature. He is co-editor of Contemporanea. Rivista di Studi sulla letteratura e sulla comunicazione and a member of the executive committees of the British Comparative Literature Association, Synapsis, European School of Comparative Studies, and the Réseau Européen d’Etudes Littéraires Comparées. His publications include: The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde (Peter Lang, 2010, forthcoming); (ed. with P. Antonello) Postmodern Impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture (Peter Lang, 2009); (ed. with L. Boldrini) Folly. Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies (Edinburgh University Press, 2008). His research interests include Italian modernism and postmodernism, comparative literature, apocalypse fiction, philosophy of language and literary theory, avant-garde and experimental literature.
