Enrico MARIANI

ENRICO MARIANI

Born: Cagliari (CA) il 05/19/1989

E-mail: enrico.mariani@unive.it

POST-DOCTORAL ACTIVITIES

Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, January 2024 -     : PRIN “Literary California, 1884-2022: spaces of exceptions, spaces of disaster”; Principal Investigator and tutor: Prof.ssa Elisa Bordin
 

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Roma Tre University, a.a. 2023/2024: American Fictions/Working and Reworking the Literary Text (9 cfu, 36h)
University of Naples Federico II, a.a. 2022/2023: Anglo-American Literature (6 cfu, 30h)
 

ACADEMIC EDUCATION

2019 – 07/13/2023: Ph. D. (XXXV ciclo) in Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Roma Tre University
Dissertation title: “The haphazard Americanization”. The crisis of the melting-pot in the autobiographical narratives of Louis Adamic, Carlos Bulosan, and John Fante.
2015 – 12/07/2018: M.A. in Modern Philology at the University of Siena
Dissertation title: Beyond Bandini. John Fante's novels after the “embarrassing compromise”. Assessment: 110/110 cum laude.
2009 – 25/02/2015 B.A. in Modern Literatures at the University of Cagliari
Dissertation title: “Minimalism is not a good term”. Literary minimalism in the 1980s U.S. critical debate.
 

FELLOWSHIPS

13 June - 1 July 2022: winner of the Alexandra De Luise Fellowship for the Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar, organized by John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Roma Tre University).
20 July - 16 October 2022: winner of the Marianne DiPalermo McCauley Visiting Scholar Fellowship as a Visiting Scholar at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY, New York, 
 
SEMINARS AND CONFERENCES

ORGANIZED PANEL 

-  “Connecting the Los Angeles Archipelago” (with Prof. Elisa Bordin), BAAS Annual Conference, 21-23 April 2022, University of Hull (GB).

-  “Hollywood’s Sins: Counter-hegemonic Discourses in U.S. Literature” (with Ph.D. Giacomo Traina), 27th AISNA Biennial Conference, 21-23 September 2023, University of Perugia, Narni (TR).

PAPERS

-  “‘This work is a monumental pean to History”: autorialità e parodia dell’autorità nella letteratura di Gina Apostol”, Doctoral Conference DLLCS, “Difetti d’autore: Forme e significati dell’autorialità”, 30 November – 1 December 2023, Roma Tre University, Rome.

-  “Re-Writing the Script: The Multimedia Strategies of the Novel in Gina Apostol’s Insurrecto”, 27th AISNA Biennial Conference, 21-23 September 2023, Università di Perugia, Narni (TR).

-  “Claiming the Footnotes: Metafictions of Spanish and American Colonialisms in Gina Apostol’s The Revolution According to Raymundo Mata”, Sapienza Graduate Conference “Horizons of Marginality”, 11 May 2023, University of Rome La Sapienza (webinar).

-  “Synecdoche, Los Angeles: the City as Representative of the USA in the Semi-autobiographies of Carlos Bulosan and Louis Adamic”, BAAS Annual Conference, 21-23 April 2022, University of Hull (GB).

-  “‘The Enormous Village’: Conflicts and Synergies in Louis Adamic’s Debunking of 1920s Los Angeles”, 26th AISNA Biennial Conference, 23-25 September 2021, University of L'Aquila.

-  “Pratiche di discussione del canone: la memoria letteraria in John Fante e Carlos Bulosan”, IV International Conference CRISA (Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale di Studi Americani), 24-26 May 2021, Roma Tre University, online.

-  “Fighting for Citizenship in the 1930s: Filipino American Conflicts in the Narratives of Carlos Bulosan and John Fante”, 2nd AISNA Graduates Conference, 6 May 2021, both online and in person at Center for American Studies (Rome).

-  “Narrating Outside One’s Own Ethnic Descent: Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat and J. Fante’s Filipino Novel”, English and Anglo-American Studies Seminar for the 400 years of the University of Cagliari, Intertextuality: Intermixing Genres, Languages and Texts, 15 February – 3 March 2021, online.

-  “John Fante's Mature Poetics through the Genesis of The Brotherhood of the Grape”, International Symposium organized by the Italian American Studies Association (IASA), Theorizing the Italian Diaspora, 15-18 June 2017, University of Calabria, Arcavacata (CS).

ATTENDED SEMINARS

- American Wastelands: Environment, Resources, and International Challenges, 68th Seminar on U.S. History, Literature and Culture, 2-4 May 2022, Center for American Studies (Rome).

- Circulating America(s): History, Aesthetics, Politics, 67th Seminar on U.S. History, Literature and Culture, 3-5 May 2021, Center for American Studies (Rome), online.

- New Frontiers. Identities, Technology and Transcultural Spaces, 66th Seminar on U.S. History, Literature and Culture,11-13 November 2019, Center for American Studies (Rome).

- The Dominant and the Subaltern, 63rd Seminar on U.S. History, Literature and Culture, 28-30 November 2016, Center for American Studies (Rome).

- Harbors. Flows and Migrations of Peoples, Cultures and Ideas, 23rd AISNA Biennial Conference, 24-25 September 2015, Università of Naples “L'Orientale”.

SEMINAR ACTIVITIES

- 21 June 2023. Organization of the event “Italian Scenes in Gina Apostol’s Novels: Gina Apostol talks with Enrico Mariani”, for the Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar 2023, (Roma Tre University and John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY), hosted by the Center for American Studies (Rome).

- 18 February – 30 November – 06 December 2022. Seminar for Rome's high school students “U.S. 1970s: feminism, multiculturalism, and pacifism in music, cinema, and literature,” as part of the Italian Ministerial Project PCTO "Alla scoperta dell’America", organized by the Center for American Studies in Rome and Roma Tre University.

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

- 2023 editorial committee for the “Quaderni del Centro Studi Americani”, edizioni Agorà & Co.

- Peer reviewer for: Ácoma, JAmIT!

OTHER ACTIVITIES

- 2024 Ca' Foscari University of Venice: Cultore della materia (Expert Scholar) in Anglo-American Language and Literature (L-LIN/11) at the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies.

- 2021-2023 Roma Tre Univesity: Cultore della materia (Expert Scholar) in Anglo-American Language and Literature (L-LIN/11) at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures and Cultures.

- Italian translation of supertitles from When We Went Electronic (Caitlin Saylor Stevens, directed by Meghan Finn) for the  "OnStage!-American Theater Festival in Rome" 2021, in collaboration with Roma Tre University: http://onstagefestival.it/project/when-we-went-electronic/.