Florian Mussgnug#
| Membership Number: | 6353 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | https://iris.ucl.ac.uk/iris/browse/profile?upi=FMUSS55 |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-0018-4594 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2020 Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies, University College London
- 2014 - 2020 Associate Professor (Reader) in Italian and Comparative Literature, University College London
- 2004 - 2014 University Lecturer in Italian Literature, Department of Italian, University College London
- 2002 - 2003 Postgraduate Teaching Assistant, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, University of Pisa
- 2022 - 2023 Visiting Research Fellow, Heidelberg University, Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische Studien (CAPAS)
- 2022 - 2023 Fixed-term double appointment (0.5), Comparative Literature, Roma Tre University, Rome.
- 2021 - 2022 Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature, La Sapienza University Rome
- 2019 - 2020 Visiting Professor of Literary Theory and Criticism, Roma Tre University, Rome
- 2017 Honorary Professorial Fellow, International PhD Programme, University of Siena
- 2017 - 2018 Research Fellow, British School at Rome
- 2005 - 2006 Visiting Lecturer in Italian Literature, University of Oxford
Fields of Scholarship
- Theories of authorship, genre and mode
- Creative critical writing, co-creative research
- Religious and secular apocalyptic storytelling
- Narratives of emergency, catastrophe, resilience
- Posthumanism and critical animal studies
- Twentieth and twenty-first century literature and culture in Italian, English and German
- Comparative literature, world literature
- Intermediality, interdisciplinarity
- Anthropocene studies, environmental humanities, sustainability as cultural practice
- Modernism, postmodernism and the avant-garde
Honours and Awards
- 2022 Visiting Research Fellowship, Heidelberg University, Käte Hamburger Kolleg für Apokalyptische Studien (CAPAS)
- 2022 Secretary of ICLA Coordinating Committee, Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages (CHLEL)
- 2021 Chair of Languages and Literature Evaluation Panel, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal (FCT)
- 2021 Member of the Italian National Assessment Panel for Comparative Literature (VQR 2015-2019 L-FIL-LET/14)
- 2016 Member of the Italian National Assessment Panel for Modern Italian Literature (VQR 2011-2014 L-FIL-LET/10)
- 2012 Edinburgh Gadda Prize: Joint Winner (Category: Best Scholarly Work on Italian Prose Literature)
- 2011 Premio Flaiano Internazionale: Shortlisted UK Candidate (Category: Italian Studies)
- 2002 Premio Nicoletta Quinto: Best International Early Career Scholar in Italian Studies
- 1998 Oxford University Gibbs Prize: best overall performance Modern Languages Joint Honours
