Pierpaolo Antonello

Pierpaolo Antonello joins the FAS as Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies. Professor Antonello specializes in 20th century Italian literature, culture, and intellectual history. He wrote extensively on the relationship between literature and science, Futurism and the Avant-Garde, Italo Calvino, contemporary Italian cinema, and Postmodern Italian culture. He also published on French philosophy and epistemology (René Girard, Michel Serres). His books include Science and Literature in Italian Culture: From Dante to Calvino (Oxford: Legenda, 2004), co-edited with Simon Gilson; Il ménage a quattro. Scienza, filosofia e tecnica nella letteratura italiana del Novecento (Florence: Le Monnier, 2005); Imagining Terrorism: The Rhetoric and Representation of Political Violence in Italy, 1969-2009 (Oxford: Legenda, 2009), co-edited with Alan O’Leary; Postmodern impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), co-edited with Florian Mussgnug; Contro il materialismo. Le ‘due culture’ in Italia: bilancio di un secolo (Turin: Aragno, 2012; AAIS Prize 2013); Dimenticare Pasolini. Intellettuali e impegno nell’Italia contemporanea (Milan: Mimesis, 2013). With Robert Gordon, Antonello is the co-editor of the series ‘Italian Modernities’ for Peter Lang, Oxford.