Stockholm university

Santi Luca Famà-BerglundPh.D. student

About me

I am a PhD candidate in Italian Literature at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics, Stockholm University. I have recently graduated cum laude from the Research Master’s program in Literary and Cultural Studies at the University of Groningen (NL); I had previously obtained my Bachelor’s degree at the University of Catania (IT) in 2016, where I started studying Italian literature.

From April 2022 to August 2024, I was a lecturer at the Department of European Culture and Literature at the University of Groningen.

Research Interests

  • Posthumanism
  • Animal Studies
  • Ecocriticism
  • New Materialism
  • Italian and International Modernism
  • Literary Cognitive Studies 
  • Reader's Engagement 
  • Enactivism 

Teaching

  • Italian Literature I, 7.5 hp (HT2021)

Research

My research focuses on non-anthropocentric conceptualizations of animality and general nonhumanity in Italian modernist literature. I build on Herman’s (2011) remodelling of Modernism through the lens of Enactivism, but instead of looking at themes and contents, I prefer to study the texts through a Neo-Formalist perspective (Levine 2015), meaning that the core of my studies points at the formal narrative innovations produced by Italian Modernism. The aim is to identify the forms used to represent nonhumanity and its relationship with humanity, so to offer new tools to represent them in today’s literature. Accordingly, I employ theories drawn from Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, Animal Studies and New Materialism, so to combine an innovative take on forms and an undertheorized topic such as nonhumanity in Italian literature.

The authors I currently have under examination are Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Gianna Manzini.

Publications

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