Eloisa Morra
is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. She earned a Ph.D in Italian Studies from Harvard University in 2017, completed her B.A. and M.A. at the Scuola Normale Superiore, and was a Visiting Scholar Researcher at the École Normale Supérieure in Lyon. At Harvard she taught at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, co-curated a research exhibition at the Pusey Library and several projects at the Harvard Art Museums. Her published articles and essays explore interdisciplinary issues at the crossroads of textual and visual studies, classicism and vanguardism, the Renaissance and Italy’s modernism. Her monograph “Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja” addresses this contemporary poet-painter’s interart/intermedia practices by studying his archive and manuscripts; it was published by Quodlibet Studio in 2014, and received a Special mention at the Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2015. She is currently completing a book on Carlo Emilio Gadda, arguably Italy’s greatest modernist writer.