Giancarlo Alfano#
| Membership Number: | 6619 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2023 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.docenti.unina.it/#!/professor/4749414e4341524c4f414c46414e4f4c464e47435236384131324638333946/riferimenti |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2005 - 2014 Associate Professor (professore associato) of Italian Literature at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia (Seconda Università di Napoli)
- 2009 - 2016 Member of the PhD in "Italianistica: Testo letterario, forme e storia", at the University of Palermo;
- 2014, february-may: Professeur invité Université de Lille 3 “Charles de Gaulle”
- 2015 - 2018 Associate Professor of Italian Literature at the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici della Università di Napoli Federico II
- 2018 - present Full Professor ("professore ordinario") of Italian Literature at the Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici della Università di Napoli Federico II
- 2016 - present Member of the PhD in Philology at the University of Naples Federico II
- 2019 - present Member of the PhD in "Testi, tradizioni e culture del Libro" at the Scuola Superiore Meridionale
- 2018 - 2024 Senior Member of the ERC Project in "Disasters, Communication and Politics in Southwestern Europe: the Making of Emergency Response Policies in the Early Modern Age" (DISCOMPOSE)
- 2019 - 2024 Member of the Commission scientifique Sciences Humaines et Sociales – 3 (SHS-3) del FNRS (Fond National de la Recherche Scientifique) – Belgique
- 2022 - 2024 Coordinator of the PhD in Philology ("Coordinatore del Dottorato in Filologia"), University of Naples Federico II
Fields of Scholarship
- Italian literature
- Comparative literature
- Theory of literature
- Cultural history
Honours and Awards
- 2012 Edinburgh Gadda Prize (Runner-up Prize for the Category “Novecento in saggio”, for the single-authored monography "Paesaggi mappe tracciati. Cinque studi su Letteratura e Geografia", Napoli, Liguori, 2010
- 2015 Premio "Pino Zac" per la Satira Politica di Forte dei Marmi, for the coordination of the monography on "La satira in versi. Storia di un genere letterario europeo", Roma, Carocci
- 2017 Premio Napoli, for the single-authored monography "L'umorismo letterario. Una lunga storia europea"
- 2018 - 2024 Senior Member in the ERC Project "Disasters, Communication and Politics in Southwestern Europe: the Making of Emergency Response Policies in the Early Modern Age (DISCOMPOSE)"
- 2021 - 2023 President of the Commission for the National Scientific Abilitation ("Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale") S.C. 10/F1 (Letteratura italiana)
