Enrico MARIANI

POST-DOC RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP

2024     01/01-12/31. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Supervisor: Prof. Elisa Bordin. Funded by the EU-Next-GenerationEU-PNRR-PRIN-CUP n. H53D23007010006 - Title “Literary California 1884-2022: Spaces of Exception, Spaces of Disaster”.

TEACHING ACTIVITY  

2024/2025        Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. History of North American Culture (6 credits, 30 hours).

2024/2025        Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Cultures and Societies of the English Language (6 credits, 30 hours).

2023-2024        Roma Tre University. Anglo-American Literature - Working and Reworking the Literary Text (9 credits, 36 hours).

2022-2023        University of Naples Federico II. Anglo-American Literature (6 credits, 36 hours).

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND SEMINARS

2022     20/07-16/10. Visiting scholar at John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY, New York, awarded the Marianne DiPalermo McCauley Visiting Scholar Fellowship.

2022     06/13-07/01. Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar, John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (Queens College, CUNY) and Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (Roma Tre University), awarded the Alexandra De Luise Fellowship, Roma.

RECOGNIZED EXPERT (UNPAID POSITION)

2024-2027        Anglo American Literature at University of Cagliari, Department of Literature, Languages, and Cultural Heritage.

2024-2027        Anglo American Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Department of Comparative Languages and Cultural Studies

2021-2024        Anglo American Literature at Roma Tre University. Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures.

PEER-REVIEWD BOOKS

2025     Americani di seconda classe. La dialettica del melting pot in Louis Adamic, Carlos Bulosan e John Fante (Lugano: Agorà & Co). ISBN: 979-12-80508-92-8

VOLUME CONTRIBUTIONS

2023     “Discussing the Canon with John Fante and Carlos Bulosan: Immigrant Narratives as Sites of Memory.” Ricostruire: i luoghi di memoria nelle Americhe. Eds. G. Baggio, M. Bella, and A. Di Matteo (New York: Bordighera Press), 227-239.

2021     “Narrating Outside One’s Own Ethnic Descent: Steinbeck’s Tortilla Flat and J. Fante’s Filipino Novel.” Intertextuality: Intermixing Genres, Languages and Texts. Eds. M. G. Dongu, L. Fodde, F. Iuliano, and C. Cao (Milano: Franco Angeli), 146-161.

ESSAYS

2024     “Dinamite, lotta di classe e acquedotti: narrazioni critiche su Los Angeles nell’opera di Louis Adamic”, Ácoma 26, 29-49. https://www.acoma.it/it/content/dinamite-lotta-di-classe-e-acquedotti-narrazioni-critiche-su-los-angeles-nell’opera-di-louis

2024     “The endless revolution of the Philippines in Gina Apostol’s novels”, From the European South 14, 117-130. https://www.fesjournal.eu/numeri/on-the-beat-owning-reclaiming-time-against-white-chronocentrism/the-endless-revolution-of-the-philippines-in-gina-apostols-novels/

2023     “L’ambiguità dei discorsi egemoni: su razza, etnia e classe sociale in The Road to Los Angeles di John Fante”, Campi Immaginabili 68-69, 449-465.

2020     “Etnicità allargate. Nuove prospettive sulle subalternità etniche e sociali nell’opera di John Fante”, América Crítica 4, no. 2, 183-185. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/americacritica/4348.

2018     “John Fante e la poetica del fallimento. Conflitti etnici e generazionali nella Los Angeles suburbana di My Dog Stupid”, América Crítica 2, no. 2, 123–138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/americacritica/3483.

REVIEWS

2023     “E. Pettener, Nel nome del padre, del figlio e dell’umorismo. I romanzi di John Fante”, Iperstoria 22, 434-439. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2023.i22.1432.

2023     “A. Raveggi, Il Romanzo di Babele. La svolta multilingue in letteratura”, Between 13, no. 26, 277-282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/5991.

2022     “L. Grossberg, Gli studi culturali, il lavoro intellettuale e la pratica politica: Saggi 2015-2021”, Iperstoria 20, 463-467. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2022.i20.1289.

2019     “C. Francellini, Visible/Invisible. Incursioni nella narrativa italiana americana contemporanea”, Iperstoria 13, 178–182. DOI: https://doi.org/10.13136/2281-4582/2019.i13.488.

EDUCATION HISTORY

2019 – 07/13/2023     Ph. D. in Lingue, Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Roma Tre University, 35° cycle

Dissertation title: “The haphazard Americanization”. The crisis of the melting pot in the autobiographical narratives of Louis Adamic, Carlos Bulosan, and John Fante

Vote: Excellent

2015 – 12/07/2018   MA in Modern Philology, University of Siena

Dissertation title: Beyond Bandini. John Fante’s novels after the “embarrassing compromise”

Vote: cum laude.

2009 – 25/02/2015   BA in Modern Literatures, University of Cagliari

Dissertation title: “Minimalism is not a good term”. Literary minimalism in the 1980s U.S. critical debate

ORGANIZED PANELS

2023     “Hollywood’s Sins: Counter-hegemonic Discourses in U.S. Literature”, 27th AISNA Biennial Conference, 21-23 September, University of Perugia, Narni.

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

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

2024     “Oil Derricks, Jackrabbits, and Workers in the Southern California Deserts: The Animality Discourse in Sinclair’s Oil!”, International Conference Frontiers and Wastelands: The Boundaries of US American Identity, Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá De Henares (Madrid), 25-27 November.

2024     “‘Big Chap with a Fine Presence’: W. G. Harding and the Teapot Dome Scandal in Upton Sinclair’s Oil!”, Conferenza: Writers and Presidents: The POTUS in US Fiction and Culture, Sapienza University of Rome, October 25.

2024     “You Take Both Jobs”: Elaine Castillo’s Politics of Work Representation of a Filipinx American Community”, 35th Biennial Conference of the European Association for American Studies (EAAS), Amerikahaus, Munich, 4-6 April.

2024     “Re-thinking Ethnic Modernism: Multilingualism in Henry Roth and Pietro Di Donato”, Roundtable The Making of Expatriates: Cultural Flows and Adaptability, coordinators: Prof Mena Mitrano and Prof Max Saunders, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, April 5 (online).

2024     “‘Water! Water! Water!’: Literary and Cinematic Representations of 20th Century’s Water Problem in Los Angeles”, International Conference Narratives of Water: Flows, Routes, Crises in the Atlantic World, University of Torino, 21-22 March.

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

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

2023     “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, Sapienza University of Rome, May 11 (online).

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

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

2021     “Pratiche di discussione del canone: la memoria letteraria in John Fante e Carlos Bulosan”, IV Convegno Internazionale CRISA (Inter-Department Center for North and South American Studies), Roma Tre University (online), 24-26 May.

2021     “Fighting for Citizenship in the 1930s: Filipino American Conflicts in the Narratives of Carlos Bulosan and John Fante”, 2ndAISNA Graduate Conference, Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies), Rome, May 6 (online).

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

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

LECTURES, SEMINARS, GATHERINGS

2025     Lecture: “Was Socialism Ever Possible in California? Utopian Communities and Christian Socialism in Upton Sinclair’s Oil!”. Lecture series “Representing California. Land of Dreams and Nightmares”. University of Naples L’Orientale, May 9.

2024     Lecture: “'I'm glad I'm not a hog': Animality and Socialism in Sinclair's The Jungle and Oil!". Joint Lecture Series “Environment(s): Literary, Cultural and Linguistic Perspectives”. European Joint Master’s Programme in English and American Studies, Jagiellonian University (Kraków), December 11 (online).

2024     Lecture: “Oil Derricks, Jackrabbits, and Workers in the Southern California Deserts: Understanding Los Angeles Through Sinclair’s Oil!”. Graduate Seminar “Literary California, 1884-2022: Spaces of Exception, Spaces of Disaster”. Department of Political Sciences, Roma Tre University, organized by Prof Nicolangelo Becce and Dr. Agnese Marino, December 2.*

2024     Lecture: “Water Rights of Los Angeles”. American Cultural Studies 2 class, Prof. Elisa Bordin, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, April 19.*

2023     “Italian Scenes in Gina Apostol’s Novels: la scrittrice Gina Apostol in dialogo con Enrico Mariani” Interview with Gina Apostol. Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar 2023 (Roma Tre University and John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, CUNY). Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies), Rome, June 21.

* Events funded by the EU –Next-GenerationEU-PNRR-PRIN-CUP n. H53D23007010006 - Title “Literary California 1884-2022: Spaces of Exception, Spaces of Disaster”.

THIRD MISSION

2025     28/02. Lecture titled “‘The Real Thing’: Ernest Hemingway e il legame tra letteratura e vita” delivered to Rome high school students as part of governmental initiative for public schools, Alla scoperta dell’America 2024/2025 edition, Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies), Rome.

2024     13/02 – 05/03. Lectures titled “‘The Real Thing’: Ernest Hemingway e il legame tra letteratura e vita” delivered to Rome high school students as part of governmental initiative for public schools, Alla scoperta dell’America 2023/2024 edition, Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies), Rome.

2022     30/11, 06/12. Lectures titled “Gli anni Settanta: femminismo, multiculturalità e pacifismo – fra musica, cinema e letteratura” delivered to Rome high school students as part of governmental initiative for public schools, Alla scoperta dell’America 2022/2023 edition, Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies), Rome.

2022     18/02, 25/02. Lectures titled “Gli anni Settanta: femminismo, multiculturalità e pacifismo – fra musica, cinema e letteratura” delivered to Rome high school students as part of governmental initiative for public schools, Alla scoperta dell’America 2021/2022 edition, Centro Studi Americani (Center for American Studies), Rome.

2020     Italian translation of the play When We Went Electronic (by Caitlin Saylor Stevens, directed by Meghan Finn) for the festival “OnStage!” 2021, inside a department project at Roma Tre University “La traduzione per il teatro”: http://onstagefestival.it/project/when-we-went-electronic/.

ATTENDED SEMINARS E CONFERENCES

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

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

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

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

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

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES     

2025     “John Fante: Thirty Years After,” International Conference, Ca’ Foscari of Venice, December 12.

2025     “7th International Conference on Language, Linguistics and Literature,” Department of Philology, University of Cantabria, October 2-3. https://congresolinguisticayliteratura.unican.es/en/7th-international-conference-on-linguistics-and-literature/committee-2/

2025     “California Dreaming. Visions, Spaces, And Shadows from the Golden State,” University of Naples L’Orientale, June 12-13. https://sites.google.com/view/california-dreaming/committee

EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal Oltreoceano.

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Quaderni del Centro Studi Americani”, Agorà & Co Press.

Peer reviewer for Ácoma, JAmIT!