Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
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
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
Awards
- 2021 Individual Grant Gladys G. Krieble Delmas Foundation
- 2020 Visiting Fellowship Institute of Modern Language Research
- 2020 Centro V.Branca Residential Fellowship Fondazione Giorgio Cini
- 2019 Institute of Modern Language Research Visiting fellowship
- 2018 Centre for Italian Modern Art- Civitella Ranieri fellowship
- 2018 Civitella Ranieri Affiliated Fellowship Centre for Italian Modern Art
- 2016 Certificate of Distinction in Teaching Derek Bok Center, Harvard University
- 2016 GSAS Dissertation Completion Fellowship Harvard University
- 2015 Special mention, Edinburgh Gadda Prize 2015 (for the monograph Ritratto di Toti Scialoja, Quodlibet: 2014)
- 2012 Full scholarship Scuola Normale Superiore
Publications
- Figure dell'artista/ Figures of the Artist (Università Degli Studi Di Bergamo : 2021)
- Tradition and translation in Proust’s reception in Italy: Croce, Gobetti, Debenedetti, in Annali d’Italianistica. ( : 2020)
- La vita delle immagini. Sguardo e percezione in Anna Maria Ortese, in La grande Iguana. Scenari e visioni a vent’anni dalla morte di Anna Maria Ortese, edited by A. Bubba, Aracne: Rome, 81-89. ( : 2020)
- Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580), Brill: Leiden. ( : 2019)
- Anna Maria Ortese’s palette. Colors and achromaticity in Neapolitan Chronicles (Forum Italicum, 2019/3 : 2019)
- Paesaggi di parole. Toti Scialoja e i linguaggi dell’arte ( : 2019)
- Dalla musica alla Nekuia. Appunti su Debenedetti traduttore di Proust, Ermeneutica letteraria, special issue on G. Debenedetti, edited by A. Borghesi, 2017/1 ( : 2017)
- La cupola di madreperla. Gadda, Scialoja e una tessera iconografica per il Pasticciaccio. (Lettere Italiane, 2016/2. : 2016)
- Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja (Quodlibet: Macerata : 2014)
- Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja, Quodlibet: Macerata Winner of Special Mention at the Edinburgh Gadda Prize- Harvard Edition, 2015 ( : 2014)
- Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) (Brill: Boston-Leiden)