Prof. Luca Somigli

Dott. In Lett. (Firenze); Ph.D. (SUNY at Stony Brook)
luca.somigli@utoronto.ca 

  • Professor, Italian Studies
  • Fellow of Victoria College
  • Associate member of the Centre for Comparative Literature
  • European modernism and the avant-garde; late 19th and 20th ct. Italian literature; genre fiction (especially detective and science fiction); literary theory; visual media (especially comics)
  • Author: Valerio Evangelisti (2007); Legitimizing the Artist. Manifesto Writing and European Modernism, 1885-1915 (2003) (winner of the 2004 prize for best book awarded by the American Association for Italian Studies); Per una satira modernista. La narrativa di Wyndham Lewis (1995)
  • Co-author: Il cinema dei fumetti. Dalle origini a Superman Returns (2006)
  • Editor: Negli archivi e per le strade. Il ritorno alla realtà nella narrativa di inizio milennio (2013); special issue of the journal Symposium on Italian detective fiction (2005)
  • Co-editor: Neoavanguardia. Italian Experimental Literature and Arts in the 1960s (2010); A Century of Futurism, 1909-2009 (issue of the journal Annali d’Italianistica, 2009); L’arte del saltimbanco. Aldo Palazzeschi tra due avanguardie (2008); Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies (2007); Modernism and Modernity in the Mediterranean World (2006); Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde, (2004); Italian Prose Writers, 1900-1945, vol. 264 of Dictionary of Literary Biography, (2002); The Literary Journal as a Cultural Witness. 1943-1993: Fifty Years of Italian and Italian American Reviews, (1996)
  • Articles and book chapters on Italian Modernism, F. T. Marinetti, Massimo Bontempelli, Primo Conti, Alberto Savinio, Aldo Palazzeschi, Enrico Pea, Antonio Delfini, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, Italian detective fiction, Augusto De Angelis, Loriano Macchiavelli, Valerio Evangelisti, Italian-Canadian poetry, Italian comics, comics and cinema
  • Translator: Maurizio Ferraris, A History of Hermeneutics (1996)
    Completed thesis supervised on: Vittorio Pica and Carlo Dossi; self-translation in early 20th-century Italian theatre: the language of Tommaso Landolfi’s narrative; Orazio Costa’s staging of Pirandello’s plays.