Alessandro RAVEGGI

Date of birth: 06/02/1980, Firenze, Italy

contact: alessandro.raveggi@unive.it

websites: www.unive.it/persone/alessandro.raveggi - http://alessandroraveggi.com - https://unive.academia.edu/AlessandroRaveggi

 
LANGUAGES

Italian native fluency

English near-native fluency (10+ years of teaching and research experience in English)

Spanish near-native fluency – DELE Spanish Diploma C2 Level / Mastery The highest and most advanced of the six learning levels established in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages; (4+ years of teaching and research experience in México)

French elementary reading knowledge

Latin elementary reading knowledge

 
EDUCATION

01/2005 – 05/2008        Ph.D. in Philosophy (Aesthetics and Ethics)

University of Bologna, Italy

Topics: Literary theory, reader response theory, theory of the novel, narratology

supervisor: Prof. Carlo Gentili, gentili@unibo.it

Thesis title: “Reception and Fiction: a reading theory between structure and aesthetic response”.

09/1999 – 06/2004        MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics)

University of Florence, Italy

Topics: Literary theory, postmodernism, theory of the novel, modernism

supervisor: Prof. Sergio Givone, s.givone@unifi.it

Thesis title: “Narcisolalia. An approach to literary postmodernism”

Laurea summa cum laude (thesis with distinctions)

09/1994 – 06/1999        High School Diploma

Liceo Scientifico Russell Newton (Florence, Italy)

100/110

 
RELEVANT POSITIONS

08/2020 – present        Post-doctoral Fellow (“Assegnista di Ricerca”)

Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia – Italy

Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies

Research project: “The multilingual novel as contact zone. American and European cases in comparison” – reference: Prof. Stefano Ercolino stefano.ercolino@unive.it

08/2013 – 08/2020        Lecturer – Italian Studies

New York University – Florence Global Campus, Italy

Courses in contemporary Italian Literature, Italian Travel literature, Medieval and Renaissance Italian Studies - references: Professor Virginia Cox, virginia.cox@nyu.edu - Professor Bruce Edelstein, be9@nyu.edu, Professor Renata Carloni: renata.carloni@nyu.edu

08/2009 – 07/2011        Post-doctoral Fellow (“Assegnista di Ricerca”)

College of Modern Literatures (Colegio de Letras Modernas)

Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México – “Catedra Italo Calvino” (Italian Studies)

Research on Italo Calvino, cultural identity and travel theory in his American and Latin American travelogues - reference: Prof. Mariapia Lamberti Lavazza

09/2015 – 08/2020        Lecturer – Studies in Fiction/Comparative Literature

Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy

Courses in Studies in Fiction (Comparative Literature).

reference: Prof. Jason Houston, houston@gonzaga.edu

01/2012 – 01/09/2019   Lecturer – Italian Studies

ISI Florence – The International Studies Institute at Palazzo Rucellai

Consortium for Penn State University, University of Connecticut, University of Virginia, University of Maryland

Courses in Italian Language and Literature

reference: Professor Stefano Baldassarri, sbaldassarri@isiflorence.org

01/2022 – present        Editor-in-chief and Founder

The Florence Review

the first Italian bilingual literary magazine (in English and Italian)

Le Lettere, since 2022 –

09/2018 – present        Author (Fiction)

Bompiani editore (Milan, Italy) – https://www.bompiani.it/autori/alessandro-raveggi-11726

01/2018 – present        Editor (Foreign fiction)

LiberAria editrice (Bari, Italy)

Phileas Fogg - collection of foreign fiction (Latin American, Spanish, French and English novels) LINK

05/2016 – 12/2020        Editor-in-chief and Founder

The FLR – The Florentine Literary Review

the first Italian bilingual literary magazine (in English and Italian)

The Florentine Press, since 2016 –

08/2019 – present        Contributor

Wired Italia - https://www.wired.it/author/araveggi/

01/2017 – present        Contributor

Esquire Italia, LINK

Dal 2017 – present      Contributor

Il Tascabile - https://www.iltascabile.com/author/alessandro-raveggi/ 

03/2014 – 01/2018        Coordinator and founder

NYU The Writers’ Season

A bilingual literary festival with American and Italian writers in dialogue, in collaboration with NYU Creative Writing Program

New York University, Florence, Italy – LINK

01/2013 – 01/2019        Curator and founder

Forward

A nonprofit organization for the promotion of literature and the arts in young generations.

Awards: Shortlisted for the national call “Che Fare” (2013) - LINK

01/2017 – 12/2018        Contributor

Forbes Italia - https://forbes.it/author/araveggi/

08/2015 – 09/ 2015       Resident Author / Fellow

Becas de Excelencia de la Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores SRE y Gobierno de México

Museo Universitario del Chopo UNAM and Casa Refugio

08/2012 – 06/2013        Adjunct Professor – Italian Language and Literature 

Universidad Anáhuac, México

School of Modern Languages (Escuela de Lengua Modernas)

reference: Professor Petra Gwynner, pgwynner@anahuac.mx

09/2012 – 02/2013        Author (Fiction)

La Repubblica / Gruppo L’Espresso

stories for the newspaper La Repubblica – LINK

reference: f.galati@repubblica.it

MEMBERSHIPS & OTHER AFFILIATIONS

COMPALIT – Italian Comparative Literature Association

American Comparative Literature Association

Society for Novel Studies

Research Institute for Digital and Cultural Heritage - Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia

Centro Studi sul Multilinguismo – Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, PARTICIPATIONS TO SEMINARS AND SUMMER SCHOOLS

06/27-07/23/2021

The 11th Institute for World Literature 2021 – Harvard University

Attendance to 2 two-week seminars:

Prof. Lawrence Venuti, “What is Translation? Theory, Practice, Value”

Prof. David Damrosch, “Globalization and Its Discontents.”

In addition, I presented a paper during the colloquium “Translation & World Literature”.

03/2020

MSCA Seal of Excellence – Horizon 2020

Research project “The Multilingual Novel: A Comparative Approach to 20th Century and Contemporary Italian, American and Latin American literature”

08/2019 – 06/2020

Global Faculty Fund – New York University, Florence

Research fund for the project “Florence: A City with a View”: compile a new reader of short stories and memoirs about 19th-20th century Florence, from Pinocchio’s author Carlo Collodi to recent ones.

09/2019 – 12/2019       

Faculty Development Grant - Gonzaga University in Florence

Research funds for research in archives and libraries at UNAM, México City, related to multilingual novel and the Latin American and Mexican avantgarde

06/2018 – 07/2018

Faculty Development Grant - New York University, Florence

Travel expenses for research at UNAM, Mexico City related to the book “Grande karma. Vite di Carlo Coccioli” (Bompiani, 2020)

06/2015 – 09/2015       

Resident Writer – Becas de Excelencia de la Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores SRE y Gobierno de México –– Museo Universitario del Chopo and Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl

Field work for writing short stories about Italian Mexican characters living in México City. The methodology used was borrowed from public and documentary art. LINK

08/2009 – 07/2011

Postdoctoral Fellowship – College of Modern Literature - Colegio de Letras Modernas

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de México, México City

07/2009 – 08/2009

Postdoctoral fellowship – Becas de Excelencia de la Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores SRE y Gobierno de México - Research at the Catedra Extraordinaria Italo Calvino, Mexico City UNAM

ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS / SYMPOSIA / CONFERENCES

04/26/2021 – Organization and moderation, “A Dialogue with Gina Apostol”, MULTINOVEL. Dialogues on the multilingual novel. With international authors, in collaboration with the international festival Incroci di Civiltà and the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

02/26/2021 – Organization and moderation, “A Dialogue with Edwidge Danticat”, MULTINOVEL. Dialogues on the multilingual novel. With international authors, in collaboration with the international festival Incroci di Civiltà and the Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice

03/20/2019 – Organization, “Encounter with Lisa Halliday”, GIF Talks – Encounters with American Writers, curated by Alessandro Raveggi, Gonzaga in Florence, Library http://www.theflorentine.net/event/?id_event=1160

02/15/2018 - Organization, “An Encounter with John Freeman and Nadifa Mohamed”, New York University, Florence, La Pietra Dialogues http://www.lapietradialogues.org/dialogues_sch.php?cat=9&id=387

06/2017 - Organization and moderation, “The Writers’ Season / La Stagione degli Scrittori”, 4th edition, June 8-9, Two-day dialogues in Italian and English between American and Italian Writers, New York University Florence https://lapietra.nyu.edu/event/writers-season-la-stagione-degli-scrittori-2017/. Key speakers: Guido Mazzoni, Igiaba Scego, Maaza Mengiste, Catherine Barnett, among others.

06/2016 - Organization and moderation, “The Writers’ Season / La Stagione degli Scrittori”, 3rd edition, June 16-17, Two-day dialogues in Italian and English between American and Italian Writers, New York University Florence https://lapietra.nyu.edu/event/the-writers-season-ii-la-stagione-degli-scrittori-ii/. Key speakers: Antonella Anedda, Alexander Chee, Tommaso Pincio, Maaza Mengiste, Claudia Durastanti, among others.

06/2015 - Organization and moderation, “The Writers’ Season / La Stagione degli Scrittori”, 2nd edition, June 4 – 5, Two-day dialogues in Italian and English between American and Italian Writers, New York University Florence. Key speakers: Mark Bibbins, Colson Whitehead, Francesco Pacifico, Meghan O’Rourke, among others.

06/2014 - Organization and moderation, “The Writers’ Season / La Stagione degli Scrittori”, 1st edition, June 5 – 6, Two-day dialogues in Italian and English between American and Italian Writers, New York University Florence. Key speakers: Heidi Julavits, Chris Kraus, Vincenzo Latronico, Jonathan Lethem, Eileen Myles, Giorgio Vasta, among others.

12/06/2013 – Organization and speaker, Round table “Carlo Coccioli. L’opera di un toscano nel mondo”, New York University Firenze, Villa Sassetti. In collaboration with Regione Toscana – La Pietra Dialogues – New York University - Key speaker: Giulio Mozzi LINK

01/12/2005 – Organization, moderantion and speaker, “La Fine del Post-moderno? Critica e poetiche tra Stati Uniti ed Europa dall’Avanguardia al Post-moderno”, Department of Italian Studies, University of Florence. Key speakers: Peter Carravetta, Romano Luperini, Remo Ceserani.

 
INVITED PRESENTATIONS / PAPERS

12/09/2021 – paper “Le tentazioni di Babele. Esperienza del male, multilinguismo negato, testimonianza”, convegno COMPALIT 2021, Università degli Studi di Milano.

07/09/2021 – paper “Multilingualism, The (Global) Novel and World Literature”, The Institute for World Literature 2021, Harvard University, Colloquium “Translation & World Literature”

05/19/2021 – paper “A Forked Tongue: The Multilingual Novel as an Issue for Theory”, Narrative 2021 International Society for the Study of Narrative”, conference, session Contemporary Global Literature, LINK

04/09/2021 – paper “Multilingual Novels, Untranslatability and Self-Translation. Three Italian cases: Savinio, Coccioli, Wilcock”, ACLA Meeting 2021, online, seminar organized by the ICLA Translation Committee - LINK

10/27/2020 – Invited speaker, “Carlo Coccioli Contemporaneo: incontro di studio e percorso espositivo”, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.

09/01/2018 – Invited speaker, “Strange Comfort Afforded by the Profession. A reflection on Time and Contemporary Autobiography (Starting from Malcolm Lowry in Rome)”, University of Geneva Summer School “Time Time Time: Science, Art & Philosophy’”, Rome, Istituto Svizzero at Villa Maraini

11/16/2017 - Invited speaker, “Presentation of the new Italian literary magazine: The FLR”, Italian Institute of Culture, London.

06/26/2017 - Invited speaker, “Seminario: Ultimas tendencias de la literatura italiana actual: Mas allá de Elena Ferrante”, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Città del Messico, Mexico City https://iicmessico.esteri.it/iic_messico/es/gli_eventi/calendario/2017/06/seminario-de-literatura.html

08/20/2015 - Invited Speaker (as Resident Fellow), “Jueves Literario con Alessandro Raveggi”, Casa Refugio Citlaltépetl, Mexico City - http://www.casarefugio.com/?p=426

10/31/2014 - Invited speaker, “Animalità selvagge, animalità utopiche. Il Volponi leopardiano e il suo lascito nella narrativa contemporanea”, International Congress “Volponi estremo”, Università degli Studi di Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Italy.

04/20/2012 - Invited speaker, Conference “La questione della filosofia in Giacomo Leopardi”, Sala Ferri, Gabinetto G. P. Vieusseux, Firenze, Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani, Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze.

07/12/2011 - Invited speaker, “Gingio/Giannettino. Formazione e deformazione tra Gombrowicz e Collodi” in IV Seminario Internazionale sul Romanzo, International meeting, Università di Trento, directed by Professor Massimo Rizzante. http://www.unitn.it/files/download/19065/locandinasiriv2011.pdf

05/07/2011 - Invited speaker, “Transmutazioni e transculturazioni: Appunti per un’Orestiade africana, un adattamento post-coloniale in Pier Paolo Pasolini.”, Conference “Shaping an Identity: Adapting, Rewriting and Remaking Italian Literature”, 6-7 May 2011 at the University of Toronto.

03/19/2011 - Invited speaker, “American Otherness and Italian Traveling-Culture in Italo Calvino” - Third Forum In Italian American Criticism (FIAC) “The theatre of the mind, the stage of history - Italian legacies between Europe, the Mediterranean, and North America on the 150th Anniversary of Unification.” A Festschrift in honor of Mario Mignone on his 70th birthday - Stony Brook University

11/12/2009 - Moderator, panel “Italian Philosophy of Reinassaince and Baroque”, IX Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Italianos de la Cátedra Italo Calvino – Facultada de Filosofía y Letras – Colegio de Letras Modernas – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

11/09/2009 - Invited Speaker, “Si una noche de invierno un viajero conquistara las Américas: Italo Calvino y la experiencia de la alteridad mexicana” (in Spanish) – IX Jornadas Internacionales de Estudios Italianos de la Cátedra Italo Calvino – Facultada de Filosofía y Letras – Colegio de Letras Modernas – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

06/12/2006 - Invited Speaker, “Das Fiktive und Das Imaginäre. Risposta estetica ed oggetto artistico in Wolfgang Iser” (in Italian) - Conference «Dall'oggetto estetico all'oggetto artistico», may 2006, Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato, in collaboration l’Università di Firenze, - Società Italiana di Estetica.

03/16/2006 - Invited Speaker, “Che cosa fa la letteratura? Ricezione e finzione tra Genette, Sartre e Jauss”, (In Italian) Seminario di Estetica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Department of Philosophy; organised by Sergio Givone and Gianluca Garelli.