Lucio DE CAPITANI
- Position
- Researcher
- Academic discipline
- English Literature [ANGL-01/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/people/lucio.decapitani (personal record)
Office hours
Tuesday 15.00-17.00 at Palazzo Cosulich, second floor, room PCos2016
Please check the notices for possible changes.
Please send an e-mail to indicate your attendance and indicate a tentative timeslot, in order to avoid unnecessary waiting.
Treviso Campus: see office hours in Venice; or email me to schedule a meeting (lucio.decapitani@unive.it) at Palazzo San Paolo, studio F (only if I have classes/exams in Treviso).
Only in exceptional/well-motivated circumstances (and, in general, still at the usual time), office hours can take place online - as usual, please write to the professor to set up an appointment: https://unive.zoom.us/j/9834903178?pwd=a3Q2MHF3RkZGWFJtUFBoOWd4azFMdz09
Meeting ID: 983 490 3178
Passcode: sqV0RX
Supplementary Thesis Guidelines: ITA / ENG (accessible only with a unive student account - read carefully before requesting to be supervised by me)
Teaching activity current year
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
LINGUE DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA PER L'IMPRESA E LA COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE [LMR40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
MEDIAZIONE LINGUISTICA E CULTURALE [LTR5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Teaching activity previous years
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LMR10]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
LINGUE DELL'ASIA E DELL'AFRICA MEDITERRANEA PER L'IMPRESA E LA COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE [LMR40]
Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
MEDIAZIONE LINGUISTICA E CULTURALE [LTR5]
Bachelor's Degree Programme
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Letteratura inglese [ANGL-01/A]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa, Medio Oriente, Estremo Oriente, Africa Caraibi e Pacifico
- Known languages
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Italiano
(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Spagnolo (scritto: intermedio parlato: base)
Tedesco (scritto: base parlato: base)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
- Il Tolomeo: A Postcolonial Studies Journal
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Ambiente
Area: Letteratura Linea: Critica del testo
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letterature comparate
Area: Letteratura Linea: Romanzo
Area: Letteratura Linea: Teoria della letteratura
Area: Letteratura
Area: Storia e Antropologia Linea: Antropologia
Area: Studi culturali
Area: Studi postcoloniali Linea: Anglofonia
- Anglophone Indian Literature (Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai)
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- SSD:
- ANGL-01/A
- Climate fiction and utopian, dystopian, solarpunk and abolitionist imaginaries
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- SSD:
- ANGL-01/A
- Literature and Anthropology
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- SSD:
- ANGL-01/A
- Postcolonial ecocriticism and the Environmental Humanities
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- SSD:
- L-LIN/10
- Refugee Literature
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- SSD:
- ANGL-01/A
- Robert Louis Stevenson
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- SSD:
- ANGL-01/A
- Theories of World Literature
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- SSD:
- COMP-01/A
Publication highlights
lucio de capitani After the Fire, New Ways to Make a Soul: Family Abolition and Ecological Imaginaries in Anita Desai’s Fire on the Mountain and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “Solitude” in DE GENERE, vol. 11, pp. 232-245 (ISSN 2465-2415)
- URL correlato 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5111227
de capitani Care and Liberation in the Black Anthropocenes: apocalypse, justice and family abolition in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy and Cherie Dimaline’s Marrow Thieves series in FROM THE EUROPEAN SOUTH, vol. 16, pp. 63-77 (ISSN 2531-4130)
- URL correlato 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5096769
Lucio De Capitani Othello in the South Seas: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Beach of Falesá” as Shakespearean Rewriting in CONNOTATIONS, vol. 34, pp. 208-236 (ISSN 0939-5482)
DOI - URL correlato 2025,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5100847
De capitani lucio Dall’utopia cozy alla distopia critica: poetiche solarpunk nell’opera di Becky Chambers, Andrew Dana Hudson e Cherie Dimaline , Narrazioni dall’Antropocene: (pre)visioni della crisi ambientale nella letteratura e nella cultura visuale, editpress (ISBN 979-12-80675-53-8)
2024,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5083833
lucio de capitani Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature. Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing , Cham, Palgrave Macmillan (ISBN 978-3-031-38703-6; 978-3-031-38704-3)
DOI - URL correlato 2023,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5035244
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Lucio De Capitani is a tenure-track researcher at Ca' Foscari University of Venice since 2025. His research interests include Anglophone, colonial, postcolonial, and Indigenous literatures (particularly the work of Robert Louis Stevenson, Amitav Ghosh, Anita Desai, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Cherie Dimaline), theories of world literature, connections between anthropology and literary studies, as well as ecocriticism and speculative fiction, with a focus on cli-fi, solarpunk, abolitionist, utopian, and dystopian imaginaries. He collaborated with the activities of the following projects: FAMI IMPACT Veneto and Green and Blue Stories: Narratives for a sustainable future. He is currently collaborating with the Eco-Storytelling: A Digital Toolbox for the English Classroom for Building a Climate-Just Future project, the Anthropocene Commons network, the publishing house wetlands (editorial staff and committee), and the scientific journal Il Tolomeo: A Postcolonial Studies Journal (editing supervisor, editorial board). He is a board member and treasurer of AISCLI (Italian Association for the Study of English Language Cultures and Literatures). In 2025, he was a Junior Visiting Fellow at the Field of Excellence "Dimensions of Europe" of the University of Graz.
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