Research: "Japanese text" in contemporary Russian literature
Sabrina Gallo is a Ph.D. student in Russian literature at “Sapienza” University of Rome.
In 2018 she graduated with top marks in Comparative languages and cultures at the University of Naples "L’Orientale”, with a dissertation about the allusions, the quotes, and the references to classical Japanese literature in the short stories Takekurabe and Nigorie written by Higuchi Ichiyō.
In 2021 she finished cum laude her MA in Comparative literatures and cultures at the same university, with a dissertation about the effects of the dissolution of the Soviet Union on contemporary Russian literature through the novels and the literary activity of the contemporary Russian writer Dmitrij Bykov.
In 2019 she won two student mobility scholarships, the first at Tver’ State University (TvGU), and the second at Ural Federal university (UrFU). She spent a semester at Ural Federal University in Ekaterinburg.
Her research interests concern the comparative studies between Russian literature and Japanese literature, contemporary Russian literature and the effects of the post-soviet trauma on contemporary Russian literature.
Conferences:
- “Contemporary Russian literature meets the world”, University of Naples “L’Orientale” (Naples, 27th-28th October 2022), with the paper “Japan in the novel Almaznaja kolesnica written by B. Akunin”.
- “Rethinking Catastrophe in Precarious Times”, “Sapienza” University of Rome (Rome, 6th-7th July 2023), with the paper “Working-through of the Soviet catastrophe in the novel Empire V written by V. Pelevin”.
- Roundtable “Soviet Science Fiction: Science, Magic, and Philosophy of Closed Space(s)” at 55th ASEEES Annual Convention (Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, 30th November-3rd December 2023), with the paper “The concepts of closed space and open space in the novel Andromeda: A Space-Age Tale by Ivan Yefremov”.