Marco Ceravolo

Dr. Marco Ceravolo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on Anna Maria Ortese’s late ethical writings and her unpublished materials from the “Fondo Ortese”, at the Archivio di Stato di Napoli. This collection includes approximately 50 documents, such as letters, unsent articles, handwritten notes, and drafts of novels, analyzed through the theoretical lenses of ecofeminism, biopolitics, and animal studies.

He earned his PhD in Italian Studies from University College Cork in 2024, with a thesis funded by the Irish Research Council on the non-human encounters in the works of Federigo Tozzi, Dino Buzzati, and Anna Maria Ortese. He co-edited the special issue "Italian Girlhoods and other brilliant friends" (2022), and the collection of essays "Italian Studies Across Disciplines" (2022). His first monograph was recently published by Carocci Editore, under the title “Illuminare un po’ l’inferno”. Simbologie del non umano in Dino Buzzati e Anna Maria Ortese.