Florian Mussgnug
Novecento in Saggio | Harvard 2015 Edition
Early Career Scholarly Work on 20thC Italian Creative Prose
Previous Winners Panel Judge
Florian Mussgnug (BA Oxon, MSt Oxon, PhD Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa) is Reader in Italian and Comparative Literature at University College London. His publications include The Good Place: Comparative Perspectives on Utopia (with Matthew Reza, 2014); The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde (2010); Postmodern Impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture (with Pierpaolo Antonello, 2009); Lutero: Il padre della Riforma protestante (2003), and numerous articles on experimental narrative, philosophy and literary theory, cultural representations of catastrophe and apocalypse. He has been Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Rome III (2010-2011), and has served on the editorial board of Italian Studies, and on the executive committees of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA) and the Réseau Européen d'Etudes Littéraires Comparées. He writes regularly for L’Indice dei Libri.
