Alessandro Raveggi (Florence, 1980) is an author, scholar and professor of Modern Italian, English and Comparative Literature, teaching ENG202 Studies in Fiction at Gonzaga Â鶹¹ÙÍø in Florence, since 2015, where he is also the curator of the international series "GIF TALKS Encounters with Authors". Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence recipient in 2020, Raveggi was a research fellow at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México from 2009 to 2011, at Ca' Foscari Â鶹¹ÙÍø of Venice from 2020 to 2023, and Faculty in Italian Studies at NYU Florence from 2013 to 2020. He has published fiction, non-fiction and poetry in Italian and international publishers and web-magazines, academic and literary reviews since 2003. He is the editor-in-chief of the first Italian bilingual literary magazine "The Florence Review".
Publications
- "Calvino americano. Identità e viaggio nel Nuovo Mondo" (essay, Le Lettere, 2012)
- "David Foster Wallace" (essay, introduction to the author, Doppiozero editions, 2014)
- (editor) "The FLR - The Florentine Literary Review" aka "The Florence Review", bilingual literary magazine (2016 - present)
- (Introduction to) E.A. Poe, "I delitti della Rue Morgue - Il mistero di Marie Roget" (Giunti, 2017)
- "Nella vasca dei terribili piranha" (novel, Effigie editore, 2012)
- "Il grande regno dell'emergenza" (short stories, Liberaria, 2016)
- "Nominazioni" (poetry collection, Ladolfi editore, 2016)
- "Grande karma" (novel, Bompiani 2020)
- "A Città del Messico con Bolaño" (literary nonfiction, Perrone 2022)
- "Il Romanzo di Babele. La svolta multilingue della letteratura" (essay, Marsilio, 2023)
Contact: raveggi@gonzaga.edu
