Professor of Romance Studies & Professor of Literature
“Lo storicismo nei Quaderni.” Il presente di Gramsci. Letteratura e ideologia oggi. Ed. Paolo Desogus et alia. Bologna: Galaad, 2018. 92-118. “Before and After the Rise.” Novel 51.1 (2018): 121-126. “Tre Sud di Ernesto de Martino.” Narrativa. Nuove frontiere del Sud. 39 (2017): . “Sud per avventura. Meridionalismo e Global South.” Tragitti del Sud nella cultura italiana contemporanea. Eds, Silvia Contarini e Teresa Solis. Firenze: Franco Cesati Editore, 2017. 21-30. “South by Chance. Southern Questions on the Global South.” The Global South 11.2 (2017): 39-53. “Filosofia, filologia, e il «senso delle masse».” International Gramsci Journal 2.3 (2017): 306-30. “Europa (in der Theorie).” Fluchtpunkt. Das Mittelmeer und die europäische Krise. Eds. Franck Hofmann and Markus Messling. Berlin: Kulturverlag, 2017. 36-69. “Where Are We Now? Arts and Politics in the Age of Globalization.” Where Are We Now? Eds. Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Christiane Kühl, Andreas R. Peternell, and Wilma Renfordt. Berlin: The Green Box Kunst Editionen, 2017. pp. 64-65. “Montesquieu, le «storielle dell’harem», e i fondamenti letterari dell’Europa liberale.” Scritture migranti. Rivista di scambi interculturali. 9-10 (2016): 229-251. “Luckács inattuale. La problematica del romanzo, tra storicismo e ragione.” Moderna: Semestrale di teoria e critica della letteratura XVIII.1/2 (2016): 129-48. “Introduzione.” Italian Culture (2016): 1-9. “Geographies of Historical Discourse.” The Oxford Handbook of European Romanticism. Ed. Paul Hamilton. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. pp. 621-643. “Machiavellismo e antimachiavellismo: Strauss e l’eccezionalissimo.” Machiavelli Cinquecento. Mezzo Millennio del Principe. Eds. Gian Mario Anselmi, Riccardo Caporal, and Carlo Galli. Milano: Mimesis, 2015. Pp. 109-122. “República de las Letras. Que es la literatura europea?” Literatura europea comparada. Ed. César Domínguez. Madrid: Arco/Libros, 2013. 37-16. (Translated by César Domínguez). “Notes on Q6§32: Gramsci and the Dalits.” The Political Philosophies of Antonio Gramsci and B. R. Ambedkar: Itineraries of Dalits and Subalterns. Ed. Cosimo Zene. London: Routledge, 2013. 75-86. “Fredric Jameson: Postmodernità e Cultural Studies.” Moderna: Semestrale di teoria e critica della letteratura XIV:1-2 (2012): 141-152. “Translating Laws: Montesquieu and the South.” Translatio/n: Narration, Media and the Staging of Difference. Eds. Federico Italiano and Michael Rössner. Bielefeld, Austria: Transcript Verlag, 2012. 187-202. “The Politics of the Event (Beginning)/Политика события (начало).” Личность Культура Общество. XIV.1.69-70 (2012): 57-108. “World Literature and European Literature.” The Routledge Companion to World Literature. Eds. Theo D’haen, David Damrosch and Djelal Kadir. London: Routledge, 2012. 425-434 “With Plato in Italy: The Value of Literary Fiction in Napoleonic Italy.” Modern Language Quarterly 72:3 (2011): 399-418. “Does Europe Have a South? An Essay on Borders.” The Global South 5:1 (2011): 37-50.[http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/globalsouth.5.1.37]. “L’Europa e la dialettica del confine.” Orizzonte Sud: Sguardi, prospettive, studi multidisciplinari su Mezzogiorno, Mediterraneo e Sud Globale. Ed. Luigi Cazzato. Nardò, IT: Salento Books, 2011. 148-160. “Gramsci’s Bibliographies.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 16:2 (2011): 211-224. “Luciano Bianciardi e il lavoro culturale.” Italian Studies 65:3 (2010): 361-375. “Pensiero verticale: negazione della mediterraneità e radicamento terrestere in Vincenzo Cuoco.” California Italian Studies 1:1 (2010). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jd2f55z “Consenso, letteratura e retorica: Gramsci e i literary studies.” Ed. Mauro Pala. Americanismi. Sulla ricezione del pensiero di Gramsci negli Stati Uniti. Cagliari, IT: Centro di Studi Filologici Sardi, 2009. 29-46. “Controriforma”; “Filosofia della praxis”; “Rinascimento.” Eds. Guido Liguori & Pasquale Voza. Dizionario Gramsciano. Roma: Carocci, 2009. 162-163; 312-315; 713-716. “Antonio Labriola.” Le tre Italie. Dalla presa di Roma alla Settimana rossa (1870-1914). Ed. Mario Isnenghi & Simon Levi Sullam. Torino: UTET, 2009. 729. “`The Saxophone and the Pastoral: Italian Jazz in the Age of Fascist Modernity.” Italica 2.3 (2009): 271-292. “Gramsci and Labriola: Philology, Philosophy of Praxis.” Perspectives on Gramsci: Politics, Culture and Social Theory. Ed. Joseph Francese. London: Routledge, 2009: 50-68. “Historical Materialism as New Humanism: Antonio Labriola’s ‘In Memoria del Manifesto dei Comunisti’ (1895).” Annali d’Italianistica 26 (2008): 265-282. “Documento, realismo e reale.” Ed. Antonio Vitti. Ripensare il Neorealismo. Cinema, letteratura, mondo. Roma: Metauro, 2008. 99-120. “Don de Lillo.” Verso il millennio. Letteratura statunitense del secondo novecento. Eds. Caterina Ricciardi and Valerio Massimo de Angelis. Roma: Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 2007. 261-272. (Revised and updated version of the entry previously published in Voci dagli Stati Uniti. Prosa & poesia & teatro del secondo Novecento). “Aleardo Aleardi”; “Giosuè Carducci.” The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Eds. Gaetana Marrone Puglia and Luca Somigli. (London: Routledge, 2006): I.12-14; I.388-394. “Of the Arab Origin of Modern Europe: Giammaria Barbieri, Juan Andrés, and the Origin of Rhyme” Comparative Literature. 58:4 (2006): 271-292. “The European-ness of Italy: Categories and Norms” Annali d’italianistica 24 (2006): 19-40. “The Discreet Charm of the Arabist Theory.” European History Quarterly. 36.1 (2006): 7-29. “Goethe’s Backpack.” SubStance 105/33/3 (2004): 6-22. “Stanley Elkin”; “Don de Lillo.” Voci dagli Stati Uniti. Prosa & poesia & teatro del secondo Novecento. Eds. Caterina Ricciardi and Valerio Massimo de Angelis. Roma: Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, 2004. 283-292; 429-442. “The Other Europe of Michele Amari: Orientalism from the South.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 26:4 (December, 2004): 18-27. “Asimmetrie mediterranee: etica e mare nostrum.” NAE. Trimestrale di Cultura 5 (inverno 2003): 3-8. “The Gubbio Papers: Historic Centers in the Age of the ‘Economic Miracle’.” Journal of Modern Italian Studies 8/1 (Spring 2003): 67-83. “Globalism and Regionalism: Difference or Identity?” Identity and Difference in the Global Era. Ed. Enrique Rodriguez Larreta. Rio de Janeiro: UNESCO/ISSC/EDUCAM, 2002. 259-279. “The Canonization of Heinrich Heine and the Construction of Jewish-Italian Literature.” The Most Ancient of Minorities: History and Culture of the Jews of Italy. Ed. Stanislao Pugliese. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. 131-138. “The Importance of Being Sicilian: Italian Cultural Studies, sicilitudine and je ne sais quoi.” Italian Cultural Studies. Eds. Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton. Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, 2001. 201-219. “La città e il represso. Moderno, postmoderno, e l’immaginario del(la) capitale.” Golem. Il futuro che passa. Ed. Fausto Carmelo Nigrelli. Roma: ManifestoLibri, 2001. 49-72. “Tramonto and Risorgimento: Gentile’s Dialectics and the Prophecy of Nation.” Making and Unmaking Italy: The Cultivation of National Identity around the Risorgimento. Eds. Albert Ascoli and Krystyna von Henneberg. Oxford: Berg, 2001. 241-256. “Vico’s Beginnings and Ends: Variations on the Theme of Origins of Language.” Annali d’Italianistica 18 (2000): 13-28. “Made in Italy. Look e identità nazionale nell’Italia del dopoguerra.” Segno 219 (ottobre-novembre 2000): 47-60. “A South with a View: Europe and Its Other.” Nepantla: Views from South. I/2 (2000): 375-390. “Die Rhetorik des Regionalismus. Architektonischer Ort und der Geist des Gemeinplatzes.” Die Architektur, die Tradition und der Ort: Regionalismen in der europäischen Stadt. Ed. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani. Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2000. 15-30. “The Jewish Risorgimento and the questione romana.” The Italian Jewish Experience. Ed. Thomas P. DiNapoli. Stony Brook: Forum Italiacum Filelibrary Series, 2000. 107-116. “The Bolshevik in the Garden: The Invention of America in Fascist Italy.” American and European National Identities: Faces in the Mirror. Ed. Stephen Fender. Keele, Eng.: Keele University Press, 1996. 57-72. “All the Regions Do Smilingly Revolt: The Literature of Place and Region,” Critical Inquiry 22/3 (Spring 1996): 486-505. “The Excremental Sublime: The Postmodern Literature of Blockage and Release.” Postmodern Culture 3.3 (1993). Reprinted in Essays in Postmodern Culture. Eds. Eyal Amiran and John Unsworth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. 133-172. “Canon/Gender/Praxis.” Methodologies of Gender. Eds. Mario Corona and Giuseppe Lombardo. Rome: Herder Press, 1993. 407-422. “Myth and Carnival in Robert Coover’s Public Burning.” Rivista di Studi Nord-Americani 3 (1992): 5-22.