Federica G. Pedriali
Edinburgh Gadda Prize | Founder & Prize Committee Chair
Federica Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies and Head of Italian at the University of Edinburgh (on leave 2014-2015). She is Director of the Edinburgh Gadda Projects, Director and General Editor of The Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies, Chair of the Edinburgh Gadda Prize and Director of the Italo-Scottish Research Cluster.
Federica has published extensively on the contemporary Italian canon and its margins, paraliterature and popular literature, with applications in particular from Derrida and the French theorists. Her books include Gadda Goes to War. Translational Provocations around an Emergency (2013), No-Where-Next | War-Diaspora-Origin (2013), Altre carceri d’invenzione. Studi gaddiani (2007) and La farmacia degli incurabili. Da Collodi a Calvino (2006) (Premio Nuove Lettere 2005; Runner-up Premio Mario Soldati 2006). She is currently editing a Gadda Encyclopedia in four volumes (2015) and guest-editing a special issue of the Cuadernos de filologÃa italiana (2015). She is also working on the Italianness of Europe since the early modern period as part of a book-set entitled The Universe Stinks. Props, Gaps and Last Subjects, From Bruno to Gadda (vol. 1) and From Freud to Foucault (vol. 2). She was Visiting Professor and Visiting Fellow at Harvard (2001, 2005, 2008) and Pavia (2012). She is currently Visiting Professor at Harvard (2014-2015). She has secured three major grants in the last three years: a Carnegie Trust Grant (2012-2013), a Newton International Early Career Fellowship (co-applicant and recipient Dr Alberto Godioli – 2013-2014) and a H2020 European Council Marie Curie International Fellowship (co-applicant and recipient Dr Cristina Savettieri – 2015-2017).
Federica’s approach to academic work combines a marked theoretical drive and a highly collaborative research ethos, with strong commitment to her communities. Through the Edinburgh Gadda Projects, these now reach deep into the wider community, especially as a result of the close links she has established with both the creative industries and the larger educational sector since founding the Edinburgh Gadda Prize in 2010.
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