Nicoletta Pireddu
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Cultural Studies
Panel Judge
Nicoletta Pireddu (Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles; Dottorato di ricerca, Università di Venezia “Ca’ Foscari”) is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, and current Chair of the Italian Department at Georgetown University.
Nicoletta’s research focuses on European literary relations with particular attention to the Italian, French and English domains, literary and cultural theories, intellectual history, intersections between literature and anthropology, translation studies, Mediterranean studies, transnational identities, borders, and migration.
Her book-length publications include: Reframing Critical, Literary, and Cultural Theories. Thought on the Edge (2018); The Works of Claudio Magris. Temporary Homes, Mobile Identities, European Borders (2015); the first English annotated editions of Scipio Sighele’s The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society (2018) and Paolo Mantegazza’s The Year 3000. A Dream (2010) and The Physiology of Love and Other Writings (2007); Antropologi alla corte della bellezza. Decadenza ed economia simbolica nell’Europa fin de siècle (2002), which was the recipient of the American Association for Italian Studies Book Award.
Nicoletta has authored over sixty articles in leading international journals, among them Comparative Literature, Romanic Review, Journal of European Studies, Research in African Literatures, English Studies, The Translator, Gothic Studies, Forum Italicum, Annali d’italianistica, Quaderni d’italianistica.
Her research has been sponsored by numerous fellowships by leading institutions like the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Howard Foundation at Brown University, and the Borchard Foundation. She is the recipient of the Mario Soldati Award for literary criticism, the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Distinguished Service Award.
