Eloisa Morra

Eloisa Morra

First Name: 
Eloisa
Last Name: 
Morra
Title: 
Associate Professor
Phone : 
416-978-3536
Office Location : 
Carr Hall, Room 218, 100 St. Joseph Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 1J4
Biography : 

Eloisa Morra is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Toronto and a contributing writer at Il Sole 24 ore. She earned a BA and MA from the Scuola Normale Superiore and a PhD from Harvard. She is the author of Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja (Quodlibet: 2014, Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2015), Poetiche della visibilità (Carocci, 2022), the editor of several texts (( T. Scialoja, Tre per un topo, Quodlibet; 2014) and volumes  (Building the Canon through the Classics Brill: 2019; Paesaggi di parole, Carocci: 2019; Figure dell’artista, Elephant&Castle: 2021; Retoriche dell’ecfrasi nella letteratura italiana del Novecento, Letteratura&Arte: 2021; Dino Buzzati: Critical Genealogies, Quaderni d’Italianistica: 2022).  She coordinates the Sciascia Archive Project  and is at work on a book on Italy’s greatest Modernist author, Carlo Emilio Gadda. 

BOOK REVIEWS
Allegoria, Intersezioni, Italianistica, Italica, Forum Italicum.
 

Education: 
Ph.D., Harvard University
M.A., Scuola Normale Superiore
M.A., Università di Pisa
B.A., Università di Pisa
Personal Website: 
https://www.eloisamorra.com

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Modern and contemporary Italian literature 
  • Literature and the visual arts (XVIth and XXth century)
  • Word and Image studies
  • Writers’ archives
  • Translation theory and practice

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Meta Description: 
Profile of Eloisa Morra, a faculty member of the Department of Italian Studies, University of Toronto.