Join us at the MLA Convention in New Orleans for our sponsored panel featuring new academic work from four excellent scholars:

Pirandello’s Tailor: Carlyle’s Influence on Pirandello’s Philosophy of Appearances

Lorenzo Mecozzi, Columbia U

Lorenzo Mecozzi is a Lecturer in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University. He has a BA and MA in Italian and Comparative Literature from the University of Siena, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Italian and Comparative Literature and Society from Columbia University, where he teaches "Literature Humanities: Masterpieces of Western Literature and Philosophy." His research primarily focuses on Italian and European modernism. His most recent publication is a book chapter on the genealogy of the Italian family novel. He is currently working on a book project on the crisis of the Bildungsroman and the emergence of a new genre: the ‘retrospective novel.

D’Annunzio’s Long Avant-Garde and Pirandello’s Exemplary Modernism

Daniele Meregalli, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Daniele Meregalli graduated in Italian Language and Literature (BD) from the University of Florence, and in Italian Studies, European Literary Cultures, Linguistics (MD) from the University of Bologna. He is currently a PhD candidate in Italian Studies and a Teaching Assistant at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. His specialization is in modern Italian literature, philosophy, and history, while his methodological approach sources from philosophical aesthetics, history of ideas, and geopolitical analysis. He has published work in journals including Italian Studies, Il Pensiero, and Storia e problemi contemporanei. 

Visuality between Truth and Deception in Luigi Pirandello and Orson Welles

Tommaso Verga, University C Cork

Tommaso Verga is a special needs teacher at the “Carlo Calvi” High School of Voghera (Italy) and currently on licence for a PhD in Italian Studies and Film & Screen Media Studies at University College Cork, where he is doing interdisciplinary research on Luigi Pirandello, Orson Welles, and Akira Kurosawa.

Pirandellian Reflections and Refractions in Giuliana Musso’s Dentro: Una storia vera, se volete

Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State U

Juliet Guzzetta is Associate Professor with joint appointments in the Department of English and the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University. Her first book, The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy (Northwestern UP, 2021; translation in Italian by Accademia University Press, 2023), explores a form of contemporary solo theater in its historical, political, and performative dimensions. With Ombretta Frau, she recently co-edited an issue of the journal gender/sexuality/italy on the idea of conservative feminisms. In addition to her scholarship featured in Theatre History Studies, Annali d’Italianistica, Spunti e ricerche, Italica and several edited volumes, she published a translation of Giuliana Musso’s Dentro. Una storia vera se volete in the journal Delos: A Journal of World Translation. Currently she is co-editing a collection on Italian feminist thought with Graziella Parati titled Italian Feminisms: Transnational Praxes for Today and Tomorrow, and working on a monograph that centers Franca Rame’s performances and activism as a model for political discourse, socially committed artistry, and grounded wide-ranging critique.