Cristina Savettieri
Novecento in Saggio | Harvard 2015 Edition
Early Career Scholarly Work on 20thC Italian Creative Prose
Previous Winners Panel Judge
Cristina Savettieri received her PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Pisa in 2005. Subsequently, she worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the universities of Pisa and Siena and joined New York University in Florence as an Adjunct Professor in 2010. From 2011 to 2013 she was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin, where she carried out a research project on Theories and Practices of the Modern Tragic. She is presently a Teaching Fellow at the University of Pisa and, having been recently awarded a Marie Sk?odowska Curie Fellowship, she will start working at the University of Edinburgh in September 2015 under the supervision of Federica Pedriali. Her MSC Project is entitled Fatherland as Motherland: Unstable Gender and Nation in Italian Great War Literature. She is the author of an award-winning monograph on Carlo Emilio Gadda, La trama continua. Storia e forme del romanzo di Gadda (Pisa: 2008; Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2010).
