Luca Somigli
Crolla Amato Prize 2019 | Cultural Studies
Panel Judge
Luca Somigli is Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Luca has published extensively on various aspects of Italian and European modernism and avant-garde, including Legitimizing the Artist. Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885-1915 (2003; winner of the 2004 book award of the American Association for Italian Studies) and Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde, edited with Mario Moroni (2004).
His research on contemporary narrative, and genre fiction in particular, includes numerous essays on Italian detective fiction, a monograph on Valerio Evangelisti, and the edited volume Negli archivi e per le strade. Il ritorno alla realtà nella narrativa di inizio millennio (2013).
His more recent publications include the co-edited volume Futurism: A Microhistory (2017) and the forthcoming Oltre il canone: problemi, autori, opere del modernismo italiano.
