Nankai University, College of Foreign Languages, Tianjin, China – 2023-present 

Politecnico of Milan, Department of Electronics, Informatics, and Bioengineering, Adjunct Professor of Italian and European Culture, Italy – 2022-2023

Cartus Corporation and Cactus Worldwide Ltd.(USA and UK), Italian Language and Culture Trainer – 2020-2022

Brown University and Florida State University (USA) – 2013-2020

Italian Language and Culture Instructor Publishing Consultant, Italy – 2009-2013

Corporate Communication Manager, Italy – 2000-2009

 Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA – 2020

PhD in Italian Studies

Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA – 2015

MA in Italian Studies

State University of Milan, Italy – 2000

MA in Digital Humanities

Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, Italy – 1999

BA/MA in Philosophy

Books

•        The Struggle for Life and the Modern Italian Novel, 1859-1925. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022, xii, 271 pp.

•     Assaliti dalle mille luci del cielo. La cultura della percezione [Assailed by the Thousand Lights of the Sky. The Culture of Perception]. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2023, 184 pp.

Edited Books 

•      T. Pepe and A. Sartori (eds.), Perspectives on Italian Difference, Italian Differences in Perspective. Expression and Repression of Hybridity and Otherness, Selected Papers of Chiasmi, Harvard-Brown Graduate Conference in Italian Studies, Providence (Brown University): Center for Digital Scholarship, 2018, 116 pp.  ISBN 978-0-578-42849-9.  (https://conferencechiasmi.wordpress.com/conference-proceedings/).

•     Terry Pinkard, La Fenomenologia di Hegel. La socialità della ragione, edited by A. Sartori and I. Testa, translation by A. Sartori. Milano: Mimesis, 2013, 484 pp. [Hegel’s Phenomenology. The Sociality of Reason. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994].

Book chapters and articles in monographic sections

•      “ ‘Mania affettiva’ e ‘verità dei sentimenti’  in The bauletto of Uncle Vittorio (1958) di Antonio Barolini” [‘Affective Mania’ and ‘Truth of Feelings’ in The bauletto of Uncle Vittorio (1958) by Antonio Barolini], Italian Canadiana, Domestic Goods, 2023 [forthcoming].

•      “Everyday Heroes. Italian Identity, Moral Dilemmas, and Nonviolence in a Late Antifascist Resistance Novel by Antonio Barolini”, A Century of Italian War Narratives. Voices from the Sidelines, edited by L. Gussago and P. Palma. Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2023, 157-176.  

•       “Lo stile del bíos: Elena, Rosselli, Carnaroli” [The style of the bíos: Elena, Rosselli, Carnaroli], L’Ulisse. Rivista di poesia, arti e scritture, Stili della poesia contemporanea, edited by S. Salvi, I. Testa, P. Zublena, 25, 2022, 171-180.

•        “Positivismo, crisi dell’oggettività e suggestione retorico-politica ne I Viceré di De Roberto” [Positivism, Crisis of Objectivity and Political-Rhetorical Suggestion in De Roberto’s The Viceroys], Letteratura e Scienze, Atti delle sessioni parallele del XXIII Congresso dell’ADI (Associazione degli Italianisti), Pisa, 12-14 settembre 2019, edited by A. Casadei, F. Fedi, A. Nacinovich, A. Torre. Roma: Adi editore, 2021, 1-10 (https://italianisti.it/pubblicazioni/atti-di-congresso/letteratura-e-scienze)

•        “Class Struggle and Its Metamorphoses: A Path Through Postwar Italian Political Thought”, Italian Industrial Literature and Film, edited by C. Baghetti, J. Carter, and L. Marmo. Bern: Peter Lang, 2021, 137-150.

•      T. Pepe and A. Sartori, “Differences in Perspective, Hybrid Perspectives: An Introduction”, Perspectives on Italian Difference, Italian Differences in Perspective. Expression and Repression of Hybridity and Otherness, Selected Papers of Chiasmi, Harvard-Brown Graduate Conference in Italian Studies, Providence (Brown University): Center for Digital Scholarship, 2018, 1-10. 

•      “Gogol’ on Rome: I Want Nothing”, Essays inWorld Languages and Literatures: Stereotypes and the Challenges of Representation, edited by Y. A. Clemmen, M. Grieb and W. Lehman. Irvine (CA) and Boca Raton (FL): BrownWalker Press, 2018, 93-102.  

•     “Antonio Barolini (1910-1971): Loss and Community Against the Ethics of Power”, Annali d’Italianistica, monographic issue Violence, Resistance, Tolerance, Sacrifice in Italy’s Literary and Cultural History, edited by C. Ferrari, O. Pelosi and D. S. Cervigni. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS), Arizona State University, 2017, 305-325.

•     “Antigone Contended. Hegel, Cavarero and Butler on Repression and Vulnerability between Kinship and Politics”, Representations ofFemale Identity in Italy: From Neoclassicism to the 21st Century, edited by S. Giovanardi Byer and F. Cecchini. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017, 27-50.

•    “Re avvelenati, regine sonnambole, streghe e pietosi assassini. La scrittura e la differenza di Angela Veronese (1778-1847)” [Poisoned Kings, Somnambulist Queens, Withches and Compassionate Assassins. Writing and Difference in Angela Veronese (1778-1847)], Desde los márgenes: narraciones y representaciones femeninas,edited by D. Cerrato. Sevilla: Benilde Ediciones, 2017, 205-215.  

•    “Il presente del passato. Memoria e identità personale in Giornate di Stefano di Antonio Barolini” [The Presence of the Past. Memory and Personal Identity in Giornate di Stefano by Antonio Barolini], Antonio Barolini. Cronistoria di un’anima. Atti dei Convegni di New York e di Vicenza, edited by T. Barolini. Firenze: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2015, 109-127.

•     “Sull’esistenza sociale in Hegel e Gehlen” [On Social Existence in Hegel and Gehlen], Quaderni di teoria sociale, Monographic issue Hegel e le scienze sociali [Hegel and Social Sciences], edited by A. Bellan and I. Testa. Perugia: Morlacchi, 2005, 121-137.

•     “Dire l’amore conciliato. Hegel e la Madonna Sistina tra infanzia e storia” [Saying the Reconciled Love. Hegel and the Sistine Madonna between Infancy and History], Gloria dell’Assente. La Madonna per San Sisto di Piacenza, 1754-2004, edited by F. Milana and E. Gazzola. Piacenza: Vicolo del Pavone, 2004, 61-103.

Peer reviewed articles

• “Due forme di libertà malinconica: le fragilità moderniste di Mattia Pascal e Filippo Rubè” [Two Forms of Melancholic Freedom: Mattia Pascal’s and Filippo Rubè’s Modernist Fragilities] [under review] CLASS A, ANVUR.

•  “Potentiality and Impotentiality in The Viceroys (1894) by Federico De Roberto”, Quaderni d’italianistica, 44, 1, 2023, 7-26 A&HCI. CLASS A, ANVUR.

• Review Article: “Critica sperimentale. Franco Moretti e la letteratura, edited by F. de Cristofaro e S. Ercolino. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2021”, Nuova InformazioneBibliografica, il Mulino, 1, gennaio-marzo 2022, 167-174.  

• “Poesia della crisi: Lord Chandos e Amelia Rosselli” [Poetry of Crisis: Lord Chandos and Amelia Rosselli], Italian Poetry Review. Plurilingual Journal of Creativity and Criticism, 16, 2021, 147-163.

•  “The Legacy of Herbert Marcuse’s Aesthetic Dimension (1977): Criticism, Politics, and Psychoanalysis”, Academia Letters, Article 2279, Doi: 10.20935/AL2279, July 2021, 1-4.

•   “Music, Loss and Language in Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages”, Opera in Transnational Context: Reading Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages, edited by A. Kolassa and A. Körner, April 30, 2018 (https://www.ucl.ac.uk/centre-transnational-history/research-and-publications/re-imagining-ita/events/Brown-Conference- Event/index-2). 

• “Nel nome di Mattia Pascal” [In the Name of Mattia Pascal], Italica, Vol. 93, 3, Fall 2016, 522-539.

• “Sguardo di madre. Ordine simbolico, colpa e liberazione in Una bambina e basta di Lia Levi” [Mother’s Gaze. Symbolic Order,  Guilt and Liberation in Una bambina e basta by Lia Levi], Altrelettere (altrelettere.uzh.ch), November 2014.       

• “La società del debito” [The Society of Debt], Il Ponte, review founded by P. Calamandrei in 1946, 10, 2013, 143-146.

• “L’angoscia del moralista nell’esordio di Alfonso Brentani” [The Moralist’s Angst in the Narrative Debut of Alfonso Brentani], Il Ponte, 7, 2012, 131-137.

• “Trauma senza evento. La narrativa italiana al tempo della sottocultura” [Trauma without Event. Italian Narrations in the Age of Subculture], Il Ponte, 1, 2012, 110-116.

• “Capitalismo, religione, follia. La società del debito” [Capitalism, Religion, Madness. The Society of Debt], Italian Quarterly, XLVIII, no. 187-190, Winter to Fall 2011,      115-121.

• “Saviano e la critica del potere” [Roberto Saviano and the Critique of Power], Il Ponte, 3, 2010, 106-111.

•  “Dal soggetto all’individuo. La trasformazione critico-dialettica del soggetto in Adorno” [From the Subject to the Individual. The Critical and Dialectical Transformation of the Subject in Adorno], Fenomenologia e società, 1, 2010, 53-69.

• “La  comunicazione e l’immagine culturale dell’individuo” [Communication and      Cultural Image of the Individual], La società degli individui, 2, 2009, 189-192.

• “La narrazione della politica in un libro di Giuseppe Genna” [The Narration of Politics in a Book by Giuseppe Genna], Il Ponte, 9, 2009,129-134.

•  “Patire l’individuale. Sofferenza come critica in Löwenthal, Zorn e Žižek” [Being Affected by Individuality. Suffering as Critique in Löwenthal, Zorn and Žižek], La società degli individui, 1, 2009, 101-116.

•   “Quale creatività nella crisi? Finanza, economia e antropologia nella costellazione contemporanea” [Which Creativity During the Crisis? Finance, Economics and Anthropology in the Contemporary Constellation], Il Ponte, 4, 2009, 110-120.

• “Hegel a Jena: ovvero linguaggio e critica oltre la svolta linguistica. Le filosofie dello spirito del 1803-04 e del 1805-06 a confronto con R. Brandom”[Hegel in Jena: Or Language and Critique Beyond the Linguistic Turn. 1803-04 and 1805-06 Philosophies of Spirit in a Confrontation with R. Brandom], Teoria, 2, 2004, 93-117.

•   “Linguaggio e antropologia. Habermas e Gehlen: un confronto critico” [Language and Anthropology. Habermas and Gehlen: a Critical Comparison], Fenomenologia e società, 3, 1996, 89-105.

Other articles and reviews

• Review: Adele Bardazzi, Francesco Giusti and Emanuela Tandello (Eds.). A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry (Cambridge: Legenda, 2022), Quaderni d’italianistica, Vol. 45, 1, 2024 [forthcoming]. A&HCI. CLASS A, ANVUR. 

• "La difficoltà d'essere libri oggi" [How Difficult To Be Autonomous  Subject Today], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), February 2024.

• Review: "Mary Ann McDonald Carolan. Orienting Italy: China through eh Lens of Italian Filmmakers (New York: Suny Press, 2022), Associazione Insegnanti Italiani di Lingua Italiana in Cina (AIILIC-aiilic.com/blog, Bookshelf), January 2024.

•  “Un mondo mai posseduto” [Unpossessed World], Le Parole e le Cose2. Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), December 2023.  

• “Correggere il mondo, dimenticare la coscienza” [Rectifying the World while Neglecting Consciousness], La Balena Bianca. Rivista di cultura militante (labalenabianca.com), November 2023.

• Review: Maria Anna Mariani. Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 41, Italian Bookshelf, coordinated by M. Jansen, 2023, pp. 623-627. CLASS A, ANVUR.

• Review: Stefano Pirandello. All You Need is a Father, translated by Enza De Francisci and Susan Bassnett, Preface by Sarah Zappulla Mascarà and Enzo Zappulla, Note by Susan Bassnett (Imola: Cue Press, 2022), Pirandello Studies. Journal of the Society for Pirandello Studies, Vol. 43, 2023, 206-210. CLASS A, ANVUR. 

•  “È un bel guaio” [It’s a Fine Mess], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), July 2023. 

•  “Ridisegnare l’equilibrio” [Redesigning the Equilibrium], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), January 2023. 

•  “Un Paese nervoso, Italia 1859-1925” [A Nervous Country, Italy 1859-1925], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), November 2022. 

•   “Humanities in Distress”, Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), November 2022. 

• Review: Annamaria Andreoli. Diventare Pirandello. L’uomo e la maschera (Milano: Mondadori,2020), Pirandello Studies. Journal of the Society for Pirandello Studies, Vol. 42, 2022, 128-133.

•  “Non so più a chi appartengo. Autodafé dell’antropologia culturale” [I Don’t Know Where I Belong Anymore. Cultural Anthropology’s Autodafé”], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), October 2022. 

• Review: Patricia Gaborik. Mussolini’s Theatre: Fascist Experiments in Art and Politics. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 40, Italian Bookshelf, coordinated by M. Jansen, 2022, 519-522.

•  Review: Michael J. Subialka. Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 40, Italian Bookshelf, coordinated by M. Jensen, 2022, 567-571.

•  Review: Roberto Lasagna. Nanni Moretti. Il cinema come cura (Milano-Udine: Mimesis, 2021), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 40, Italian Bookshelf, coordinated by M. Jensen, 2022, 643-645.

• “Perché in America amano Agamben” [Why in America They Love Agamben], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), July 2022. 

•  “Amelia Rosselli: nella follia, contro la follia” [Amelia Rosselli: In Madness, Against Madness], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), May 2022.

•  “Effetto Verga” [The Verga Effect], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), April 2022.

•  Review: Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski. Kafka’s Italian Progeny (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 39, Italian Bookshelf, coordinated by M. Jansen, 2021, 626-628.

• “America infelix: il delirio di molti” [America infelix: The Delirium of Many], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), September 2021. 

•  “Sono come suono. Per un nuovo paradigma nei Film Studies” [I am as I sound. For a new paradigm in Film Studies], La Balena Bianca. Rivista di cultura militante (labalenabianca.com), June 2021.

• “Tulsa 1921. Realizzazione e massacro d’un sogno (americano)” [Coming True and Massacre of an (American) Dream], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), June 2021.

•  “Sulla paura di parlare e sul parlare a vanvera” [On the Fear to Talk and and on Talking Nonsense], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), February 2021 (French transl. by R. Llorens, “Peur de parler et déblatérations: quand le langage et la recherche sont soumis à la police identitaire”, Tlaxcala, tlaxcala-int.org, February 2021; “Peur de parler et parler à tort et à travers”, Le Grand Soir, legrandsoir.info, March 2021).

•  “Lo sciamano che c’interroga” [The Shaman Questions Us], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), January 2021. 

•  Review: Antonio Barolini. Diario di clandestinità e altri scritti in tempo di guerra (1943-1945).  Edited by S. Barolini and T. Barolini (Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 2019), Italica, Vol. 97, 4, Winter 2020, 923-926.

• “Se siamo una ‘classe’ di pazienti” [If We Are a ‘Class’ of Patients], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), December 2020. 

•  Review: Mimmo Cangiano. The Wreckage of Philosophy. Carlo Michelstaedter and the Limits of Bourgeois Thought (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 38, Italian Bookshelf, coordinated by M. Jansen, 2020, 539-541.

• “Fictional Bodies: Darwin e la decostruzione della biopolitica” [Fictional Bodies: Darwin and the Deconstruction of Biopolitics], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), April 2020. 

•   “Darwin conteso: una prospettiva letteraria” [Darwin Contended: A Literary Perspective], Le Parole e le Cose². Letteratura e realtà (leparoleelecose.it), January 2020. 

•  Review: Scipio Sighele. The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society.  Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by N. Pireddu. Translated by N. Pireddu and A. Robbins. With a Foreword by T. Huhn (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 37, Italian Bookshelf, coordinated by A. Polegato, 2019, 675-677.

•  Review: Nancy Harrowitz. Primo Levi and the Identity of a Survivor (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017), Quaderni d’italianistica, Vol. 39, 1, 2019, 78-80.

• Review: Paul Colilli. Agamben  and the Signature of Astrology. Spheres of Potentiality (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2015), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 35,      Italian Bookshelf, edited by D. S. Cervigni and A. Tordi, 2017, 614-616.
  

• Review:      Roberto Salsano. Pirandello in chiave      esistenzialista (Roma:      Bulzoni Editore, 2015), Annali      d’Italianistica, Vol. 34, Italian Bookshelf, edited by D. S. Cervigni      and A. Tordi, 2016, 696-698.
  

• Review: Silvia Valisa. Gender, Narrative, and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel      (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014), Annali d’Italianistica, Vol. 33, Italian Bookshelf, edited by      D. S. Cervigni and A. Tordi, 2015, 406-408.

• Review: Manfredi Bortoluzzi. La Baronessa russa (eBook Formato Kindle, 2016), Thule. Rivista Italiana di Studi Americanistici, 36-37, aprile-ottobre 2014, 245-247.

• “La differenza italiana. Genealogie dell’impersonale, della passività radicale e della debolezza tra Esposito, Agamben e Vattimo” [The Italian Difference. Genealogies of the Impersonal, of the Fundamental Passivity and of the Weakness in Esposito, Agamben and Vattimo], Filosofia e nuovi sentieri / ISSN 2282-5711 (filosofiaenuovisentieri.it), On-line Cultural Journal, June 2014.

• “Towards the Catastrophe. Niccolò Machiavelli’s Mandragola between Lack of Morality and Adaptation”, Samgha (samgha.me), Italian-American On-line Cultural Journal, January 2014.

• “L’outsourcing dei servizi immobiliari come strategia d’acquisto” [Real Estate Services’ Outsourcing as a Purchasing Strategy], L’Ufficio Acquisti. Processi di Approvvigionamento & Supply Management, 4, 24, June 2007, pp. 48-52 (with M. Vacirca)

Creative Works (Selection)

Books

• L’Inventalavoro (guidebook to the innovative and creative jobs). Lodi: Morellini, 2012, 200 pp.

• Scompenso (novel). Roma: Exòrma, 2010, 407 pp. Finalist at Perelà Book Award (2012).

Short stories

• “Micro-Trattato dell’umore”, L’Ulisse. Rivista di poesia, arti e scritture, Dopo la prosa. Poesia e prosa nelle scritture contemporanee, edited by A. Broggi, S. Salvi, I. Testa, 13, 2010, 306-309.

•  “Il giorno in cui le cose mutarono”, Scantinati per meduse e fiori di cristallo. Roma: Perrone Editore, 2010.

Undergraduate

Italian Literature I (1224-1861)

Italian Literature II (1894-2020)

Post-WWII and Contemporary Italy through Cinema and Literature Readings in Italian Literature