Sergio Parussa
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Cultural Studies
Panel Judge
Sergio Parussa is Professor of Italian at Wellesley College.
Sergio’s work focuses on the relationship between ethics and aesthetics in twentieth-century Italian literature.
Sergio is the author of Eros onnipotente: erotismo, letteratura e impegno nell'opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini e Jean Genet (Tirrenia Stampatori, 2003), and Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony: Four Italian Writers and Judaism (Syracuse University Press, 2008) translated into Italian as Scrittura come libertà, scrittura come testimonianza: quattro scrittori italiani e l’ebraismo (Giorgio Pozzi, 2011).
His work also includes translations of literary works, such as L’orso maggiore by Ginevra Bompiani, as The Great Bear (Italica Press, 2000), and Simonetta Perkins by L.P. Hartley (Nottetempo, 2008).
