Stefano ERCOLINO
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Telephone
- 041 234 9409
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stefano.ercolino@unive.it
- Academic discipline
- Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature [COMP-01/A]
- Website
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https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/stefano.ercolino(personal record)
- Office
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Department of Philosophy and Cultural Heritage
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.fbc
Where: Malcanton Marcorà
Office hours
a.a. 2026/27
Tuesday
12:00-13:30
Students are required to contact the teacher beforehand in order to book a time slot.
Teaching activity current year
Teaching activity previous years
COLLEGIO INTERNAZIONALE - II LIVELLO [ECCM]
Corso Ordinario Secondo Livello
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LMR3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LTR10]
Laurea
COLLEGIO INTERNAZIONALE - II LIVELLO [ECCM]
Corso Ordinario Secondo Livello
COLLEGIO INTERNAZIONALE - I LIVELLO [ECCT]
Corso Ordinario Primo Livello
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
COLLEGIO INTERNAZIONALE [ECC15]
Istituto d`eccellenza
COLLEGIO INTERNAZIONALE - II LIVELLO [ECCM]
Corso Ordinario Secondo Livello
COLLEGIO INTERNAZIONALE - I LIVELLO [ECCT]
Corso Ordinario Primo Livello
ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES [LM10]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE E LETTERATURE EUROPEE, AMERICANE E POSTCOLONIALI [LM3]
Laurea magistrale (DM270)
LINGUE, CIVILTÀ E SCIENZE DEL LINGUAGGIO [LT10]
Laurea
Activities and research skills
- Academic discipline
- Critica letteraria e letterature comparate [COMP-01/A]
- Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
- Internazionale: Europa, America Settentrionale, Oceania
- Known languages
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Italiano
(scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Francese (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
Tedesco (scritto: intermedio parlato: intermedio)
Spagnolo (scritto: base parlato: base)
- Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
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- Between (rivista)
- Contemporanea (rivista)
- Status Quaestionis (rivista)
- Filologia Antica e Moderna (rivista)
- AOQU (Achilles, Orlando, Quixote, Ulysses): Rivista di epica (rivista)
- Il romanzo. Teorie, forme, dispositivi (rivista)
- Diffrazioni (Edizioni ETS, collana)
- Critica Letteraria e Linguistica (FrancoAngeli Edizioni, collana)
- digitalis purpurea: Saggi di Digital Humanities in Letteratura, Linguistica, Filologia (Federico II University Press, collana)
- Participation as referees of national and international research projects
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- European Commission (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships)
- The U.S.-Italy Fulbright Commission
- European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA - Creative Europe Programme)
- DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)
- Latvian Council of Science (LCS)
- Main departmental research areas and fields
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Area:
Archeologia ed arti Linea:
Arte contemporanea
Area: Archeologia ed arti Linea: Musica e teatro
Area: Beni culturali Linea: Valorizzazione di beni culturali
Area: Discipline dello spettacolo Linea: Cinema
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Estetica
Area: Filosofia e Scienze Sociali Linea: Filosofia del linguaggio
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letteratura e arti
Area: Letteratura Linea: Letterature comparate
Area: Letteratura Linea: Romanzo
Area: Letteratura Linea: Teoria della letteratura
Area: Letteratura Linea: Teoria letteraria
- Storia e Teoria del Romanzo
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- Description:
- History and Theory of the Novel
- Keywords:
- Comparative literature, Literary criticism
- ATECO code:
- [90.03] - creazioni artistiche e letterarie
- Filosofia della letteratura
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- Description:
- Philosophy of Literature
- Keywords:
- Aesthetics, Literature
- ATECO code:
- [85.42] - istruzione universitaria e post-universitaria; accademie e conservatori
- Teoria Critica
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- Description:
- Critical Theory
- Keywords:
- Humanities, Social sciences
- ATECO code:
- [72.20] - ricerca e sviluppo sperimentale nel campo delle scienze sociali e umanistiche
- Studi Intermediali
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- Description:
- Intermedial Studies
- Keywords:
- Humanities, Fine arts, Visual arts
- ATECO code:
- [90.03] - creazioni artistiche e letterarie
- Estetica ed etica delle atmosfere
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- SSD:
- M-FIL/05
- Other members of the research group:
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Cecilia ROFENA
- A Geographical and Evolutionary Investitation of the Novel-Essay
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- Funding body:
- Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
- Type:
- POR FSE (2007-2013)
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2012 Length in months: 3
- Atmospheres: What They Are and How They Are Grasped [ATMOS]
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- Funding body:
- MUR
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Starting date:
- Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
- Other members of the research group:
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Cecilia ROFENA
- I limiti della rappresentazione: I film inventati dalla letteratura
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- Funding body:
- MIUR
- Type:
- PRIN
- Role in the project:
- PT
- Starting date:
- Year: 2012 Length in months: 12
- Negative Empathy
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- Funding body:
- Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia - Fondo di supporto alle attività di ricerca e internazionalizzazione
- Type:
- Premi alla Ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2019 Length in months: 36
- The Emergence of Literary Genres
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- Funding body:
- DAAD
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2013 Length in months: 10
- The Emergence of Novelistic Genres
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- Funding body:
- Freie Universität Berlin - Freie Universität Research Alumni Program
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2013 Length in months: 3
- The Novel-Essay: A Geographical and Evolutionary Approach
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- Funding body:
- The U.S. - Italy Fulbright Commission
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2012 Length in months: 6
- The Novel-Essay: The Late 20th Century and Beyond
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- Funding body:
- Yonsei University - New Faculty Research Seed Grant
- Type:
- Premi alla Ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2014 Length in months: 12
- Towards a Mapping of Postmodern Fiction
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- Funding body:
- Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
- Type:
- POR FSE (2007-2013)
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2010 Length in months: 3
- Towards a Mapping of Postmodern Fiction
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- Funding body:
- ARIA (Association for Research between Italy and Australasia) / Group of Eight
- Type:
- Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
- Role in the project:
- LD
- Starting date:
- Year: 2010 Length in months: 3
Publication highlights
Stefano Ercolino The Paradox of Negative Empathy in PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE, vol. 50 (ISSN 0190-0013)
In press,
Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5121527
Stefano Ercolino; Massimo Fusillo Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts , New York, Routledge (ISBN 9781032958729)
- URL correlato 2026,
Scientific monograph or treatise - ARCA card: 10278/5107688
Francesco de Cristofaro; Stefano Ercolino Criticism as Experiment , Experimental Criticism: Franco Moretti and Literature, London and New York, Verso, pp. vii-xvi (ISBN 9781804295076)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5107969
Stefano Ercolino Unrestrained Individuation: The Young Franco Moretti , Experimental Criticism: Franco Moretti and Literature, London and New York, Verso, pp. 3-22 (ISBN 9781804295076)
2026,
Book Article - ARCA card: 10278/5107968
(a cura di) Francesco de Cristofaro; Stefano Ercolino Experimental Criticism: Franco Moretti and Literature , London and New York, Verso (ISBN 9781804295076)
2026,
Curatorship - ARCA card: 10278/5107967
List of publications
Curriculum vitae
Stefano Ercolino is an associate professor of Comparative Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. A literary theorist, his work focuses on the history and theory of the novel, the philosophy of literature, modernism and postmodernism, critical theory, image theory, and intermediality, with a specific interest in nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century European and American literatures and arts, as well as in current debates on world literature.
His work has appeared in Comparative Literature, Philosophy and Literature, Novel, Historical Materialism, Orbis Litterarum, Neohelicon, and b2o, among others. He is the author of The Maximalist Novel (Bloomsbury 2014; paperback ed. 2015; Italian ed. Bompiani 2015), The Novel-Essay, 1884–1947 (Palgrave Macmillan 2014; paperback ed. 2016; Italian trans. Bompiani 2017), and, with Massimo Fusillo, of Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts (Routledge 2026; Italian ed. Bompiani 2022). Along with Francesco de Cristofaro, he edited Experimental Criticism: Franco Moretti and Literature (Verso 2026; Italian ed. Carocci 2021), and he is currently editing Philosophy of Atmospheres with Elvira Di Bona (Routledge 2027, forthcoming).
He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of L’Aquila. He has taught at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, and a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University.
He served as a board member, secretary, and treasurer of the Association for the Study of Comparative Theory and History of Literature (Compalit). In 2022, he obtained the National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Full Professor of Comparative Literature.
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