Stefano Jossa
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| Born | March 17, 1966 |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa |
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Stefano Jossa (born 17 March 1966) [1] is an Italian literary critic and academic who has worked at Royal Holloway University of London (UK) and the University of Palermo (Italy). He is the solo editor of the Handbook of Italian Literature (Oxford University Press).
Career
He was awarded the De Sanctis Chair at the Polytechnic of Zurich (Switzerland) in 2017 [2] and he was Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Northwestern University in 2024 [3]. He hold Visiting Professorships at the University of Roma Tre (Italy) in 2016 and the University of Parma (Italy) in 2017. He received his undergraduate BA degree at the University of Napoli (Italy) and his PhD at the University of Pisa (Italy). He was a Fellow at Villa I Tatti - The Harvard University Centre for Italian Renaissance Studies and at the Herzog August Bibliothek.
Scholarship and Public Life
He has contributed articles to the Italian dailies il manifesto, la Repubblica and il sole 24 ore [4]. His academic expertise spans from the Italian Renaissance, with major contributions on Ludovico Ariosto's masterpiece the Orlando Furioso, to the Italian national identity as expressed through literature. His books have had considerable influence in public discourse, with reviews in both Italian and English newspapers. [5] He has also authored influential blogs, most notably on the connection between J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter saga and the Italian sixteenth-century chivalric poet Ludovico Ariosto, [6] and on the abuses of Dante in Italian public discourse. [7] He has given the 2018 Lucrezia Zaina Bequest Lecture at the University of Liverpool, [8], and the 2021 Annual Charles De Chassiron Memorial Lecture. [9] He has been a member of the jury of many Italian literary prizes, including Premio Strega, Premio Mondello and The Bridge Literary Prize, and taken part in public literary festivals, such as Festivaletteratura di Mantova, Salone del libro di Torino, Festival of Italian Literature in London, Letteraltura in Verbania, and Galassia Gutenberg in Napoli. He has organized the conferences "Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English culture, 1516-2016" at the British Academy, [10] the "Dante Day" at Royal Holloway [11], and the "Lettura del secondo libro dell'Inamoramento de Orlando di Matteo Maria Boiardo" at the University of Palermo.
References
- ↑ "Stefano Jossa on Italian National Bibliography Archive".
- ↑ "Stefano Jossa primavera 2017".
- ↑ "Stefano Jossa | Fulbright Scholar Program".
- ↑ "Stefano Jossa | List of articles in il manifesto".
- ↑ Jones, Tobias (14 December 2019). "Can Italians be persuaded to speak sotto voce on the train?". The Guardian.; Bezzone, Francesca (27 February 2024). "Italiano, ti amo! Italian crowned as "the sexiest language". L'Italo Americano.
- ↑ Jossa, Stefano (23 March 2016). "Ariosto, Harry Potter and Hippogriffs: weaving textual webs". The British Academy.
- ↑ Jossa, Stefano (25 January 2023). "Dante was the founder of Italy's right wing, claims culture minister – an expert explains why he's wrong". The Conversation.
- ↑ "Lucrezia Zaina Bequest Lecture 2018 with Dr Stefano Jossa".
- ↑ "2021 Annual Charles De Chassiron Memorial Lecture with Stefano Jossa".
- ↑ "Ariosto, the Orlando Furioso and English culture at the British Academy".
- ↑ "Dante at Royal Holloway".
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