Phd in STUDIES IN ENGLISH LITERATURES, LANGUAGE AND
TRANSLATION

email: giorgio.mariani@uniroma1.it
phone: 0688378085
building: Marco Polo

Giorgio Mariani is Full Professor of Anglo-American Languages ​​and Literatures at the Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of the Sapienza University of Rome. Previously, he taught at Rutgers University (where he also earned his Ph D in English) and the University of Salerno. His research has focused on 19th century American literature (especially Herman Melville and Stephen Crane), on the relationship between war, violence and literature, on contemporary Indian-American literature. In addition to having participated in dozens of international and national conferences, he has lectured in numerous Italian and foreign universities. He was Visiting Professor at the École norma supérieure in Lyon, and (numerous times) Visiting Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, as well as a member of the Faculty of the Institute for the Future of American Studies at Dartmouth College. He was president of the I.A.S.A. (International American Studies Association) from 2011 to 2015. With Donatella Izzo he directs OASIS (Oriental American Studies International School) as well as the editorial series "Le Balene" (La Scuola di Pitagora) and "Studies in American Literature and Culture" (Sapienza Università Editrice) . He is editor-in-chief of RIAS—The Review of International American Studies and a member of the Ácoma. Rivista internazionale di studi nordamericani (of which he was co-editor from 2001 to 2021).

He has published essays and articles in numerous Italian and foreign journals, including, American Literary History, Leviathan, Studies in American Ficition, Nuova Corrente, Fictions, FIAR-Focus on Inter-American Research, Stephen Crane Studies, RIAS-The Review of International American Studies, RSA Journal, STUDIA ANGLICA POSNANIENSIA, Zapruder, A.I.O.N., Arcipelago, Studi Americani, Letterature d'America, Iperstoria, Novecento Transnazionale and Ácoma. He is also the author of the following books: Guida alla lettura di Moby-Dick, Carocci 2022; Waging War on War. Peacefighting inAmerican Literature, University of Illinois Press, 2015; Leggere Melville, Carocci, 2013; La penna e il tamburo: gli indiani d'America e la letteratura degli Stati Uniti, ombre corte, 2003; Post-tribal Epics: The Native American Novel between Tradition and Modernity, Edwin Mellen Press, 1996; Allegorie impossibili: storia e strategie della critica melvilliana, Bulzoni, 1993; Spectacular Narratives: Representations of Class and War in Stephen Crane and the American 1890s, Peter Lang, 1992.