Eloisa Morra

Eloisa Morra’s research explores interdisciplinary issues at the crossroads of textual and visual studies throughout modernity, with a focus authors’ archives, issues of appropriation of the past, gender and genre. She is the author of 3 books, 12 edited volumes and around 40 articles and book chapters in English and Italian. Morra’s first book (Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre, Quodlibet 2014, Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2015) is a study of Toti Scialoja’s works with a special focus on his ‘double gift’ as a painter and poet. As a complement to this project, Eloisa edited a collection on Scialoja’s interart experiments (Landscapes of Words. Carocci, 2019) and an interdisciplinary encyclopedia (Scialoja A-Z, Electa 2023). Her second book, Poetics of visibility (Carocci, 2023) addresses the ramifications of intermediality in the works of a number of modern authors (Gadda, Celati, Anedda, and others). Her most recent book (La lente di Gadda, Electa 2024) investigates the iconography and intermedial reception of Italy’s most notable Modernist author, Carlo Emilio Gadda.

Her interest in author’s archives is visible in her work as coordinator of Sciascia Archive Project and in the edited books Building the canon through the classics (Brill, 2019) and Prisma Celati (Mimesis, 2023). Her research on women writers, the main subject of one of her graduate courses, led to numerous publications; at the moment, she is preparing the reissue of feminist theorist Armanda Guiducci’s oeuvre for nottetempo. Along her career, Eloisa has worked to reach a wider public readership, developing research exhibitions and publications that aim to connect academic and non-specialist audiences. She is a regular contributor to Il Sole 24 ore, while her curatorial projects include Calvino Cantafavole (Palazzo Ducale, Genoa 2023, with L. Scarlini), Pino Pascali Toti Scialoja. Confluenze (Kursaal Santalucia, Bari, 2024, with F. Boragina), Bestiario sentimentale (Biblioteca Teresiana, 2024, with F. Scotti), In Africa it is another story (Pusey Library, Harvard University). Morra teaches a variety of courses in modern Italian literature (19th- 21st century) and visual culture.

BOOK REVIEWS
Allegoria, Intersezioni, Italianistica, Italica, Forum Italicum.