Alessio Aletta

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.