Phd in DOCUMENTATION STUDIES, LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE

Research:

Arianna De Gasperis (Rome, 1997) is a PhD student (38th cycle) in Documentation Studies, Linguistics and Literature – History, Literature, and Gender Studies curriculum – at Sapienza University of Rome. Her thesis analyzes Tuscan comic-humorous literature between 1825 and 1885, focusing on the relationship between the practices of laughter and issues of gender and social marginality. The project is divided into four main areas: the reconstruction of the culture of laughter in Tuscany in the 19th century; the representation of poverty as a tool for parodying political power; the caricature of women and gender relations; the evolution of the ‘monello’ or ‘ragazzo di strada’, an adventurous and derisive figure who moves from humorous literature to children's literature in Carlo Collodi's Le avventure di Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino (1883). From September to December 2024, she was a Visiting PhD candidate at the University of Warwick and, in July 2025, a Visiting PhD candidate at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. She also studies women's writing between the 19th and 20th centuries, with a specific interest in the work of Sfinge (pseudonym of Eugenia Codronchi Argeli) and the literary salon she founded together with Bianca Belinzaghi, the subject of her master's thesis in Modern Philology (110/110 cum laude) in 2022. He is a member of the editorial board of Alia. Letterature e complessità, edited by Prof. Monica C. Storini (Bulzoni Editore), and Prismi. I quaderni del dottorato in Scienze documentarie, linguistiche e letterarie, edited by Prof. Gianfranco Crupi (Ledizioni).