Alessio Aletta

Alessio Aletta

First Name: 
Alessio
Last Name: 
Aletta
Title: 
Ph.D. Candidate
Phone : 
647-762-2704
Biography : 

Alessio Aletta is Ph.D. Candidate in Italian Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is developing a digital map of the locations featured in Luigi Pirandello’s works. His research interests include Italian Modernism, Literary Geography, and Contemporary Italian Comics. He published articles on Achille Campanile, Pirandello, Leo Ortolani, Zerocalcare. He co-founded “TICS” (Toronto Italian Comics Studies), the first study group in North America entirely dedicated to the subject of Italian Comics.

Publications:

  • (2023) “In Search of Villa Scalogna: Sicily as the Backdrop of I giganti della montagna”. Pirandello Studies, 43. 106–14.
  • (2022) “Pirandello in a Fez. Zulì Bombolo and Cotrone as ‘Turks’ and as Others”. PirandelloStudies, 42. 41-54.
  • (2021) “Diarismo e giornalismo nella serie animata Rebibbia Quarantine di Zerocalcare” [“Diarism and Journalism in the Animated Series Rebibbia Quarantine by Zerocalcare”]. Fakebooks: Osservatorio su letteratura e social ai tempi del covid (FOLES), Eds. Luca Mendrino et al., Università del Salento. 144-159. DOI: 10.1285/i9788883051883p144
  • (2020) “Dalla tavola al touch (e ritorno). Rimediazioni tra fumetto cartaceo e digitale in Leo Ortolani” [“From Paper Page to Touchscreen (and Back). Remediations between Printed and Digital Comics in Leo Ortolani”]. H-ermes, 18. 209-228. DOI:10.1285/i22840753n18p209.
  • (2020) “From the Dark Wood to the Asphalt Jungle: Adaptation and Appropriation in Detective Dante”. Between, 10.20. DOI: 10.13125/2039-6597/4220.
  • (2018) “La demitizzazione della biografia moralistica nelle Vite degli uomini illustri di Campanile” [“Demystification of Moralistic Biography in Achille Campanile’s Vite degli uomini illustri””], Racconti di una vita. La narrazione biografica breve nella tradizione contemporanea, Eds. Giacomo Raccis and Damiano Sinfonico. Nuova Corrente, 65.162. 135-150.
  • (2018) “Isola e ‘Continente’: polarizzazione geografica e incomunicabilità culturale nelle Novelle per un anno [“Island and ‘Continent’: Geographic Polarization and Cultural Incomunicability in the Novelle per un anno]”. Pirandello Studies, 38. 9-20.
  • (2018) “(Metrical) Form as the Soul of Poetry. The Translation of Goethe’s Römische Elegien by Luigi Pirandello". Pirandello Studies, 38. 66-79.
Education: 
Dip. (Human Sciences), ISUFI (Istituto Superiore Universitario Formazione Interdisciplinare)
M.A. (Modern Italian Literature), Università del Salento
B.A. (Literature), Università del Salento

People Type:

Areas of Interest: 
  • Luigi Pirandello
  • Italian Modernism
  • Literary Cartography
  • Literary Spatial Studies
  • Comics Studies

Program:

Cohort:

Dissertation Title: 
"A World of Paper". Geography and Spatiality in the Works of Luigi Pirandello
Dissertation Supervisors: 
Luca Somigli
Eloisa Morra
Alberto Zambenedetti
Dissertation Description: 

The project involves the creation of a digital map of the fictional and real places described in Luigi Pirandello's literary works and an overall analysis of the significance of his use of space and geographical references. This will be the first comprehensive atlas of a Modernist Italian author's oeuvre.

Administrative Service: 
President, Graduate Students' Association of Italian Studies, 2023-present
Secretary-Treasurer, Graduate Students' Association of Italian Studies (GSAIS), 2019-2023.
Other Website: 
Academia.edu: 
https://utoronto.academia.edu/AlessioAletta

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Profile of Alessio Aletta, a Ph.D. Candidate at the Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto.