PhD in ITALIAN STUDIES AND ART HISTORY

email: fabio.pierangeli@uniroma2.it
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Fabio Pierangeli is currently Full Professor of Italian Literature at the Macroarea of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". He has held this academic role since 1 October 2005, in 2012 he obtained the National Scientific Qualification for band I in the L-Fil-Let 11 sector while his application for the National Scientific Qualification for L-Fil-Let 10 was improperly rejected despite 3 positive and 2 negative reviews. In 2020 he obtained the qualification for L-Fil-Let 10 simultaneously for the effects of the appeal with respect to the improper action of the 2012 commission and for the unanimous verdict of the regular commission of ASN. He directs the series "Mosaic viaggio tra le culture” by the publisher Loffredo, he directs, for the literature part, the scientific journal "Studium" (Band A of the Anvur); he coordinates, for the Literature part, the Studium Editions, he has been a member since 2018 of the Scientific Council of the National Central Library of Rome, renewed for the three-year period 2021-2024, of the Testori Association and from 2015 to 2020 of the Ippolito and Stanislao Nievo Foundation. He manages the bimonthly international magazine on Italian literature "Mosaico italiano", printed in Rio de Janeiro with the help of colleagues from the Brazilian University of Santa Catarina, Patricia Peterle and Andrea Santurbano. He held the role of President of the Degree Course in Tourism Sciences of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata” in 2015-2018. He was elected coordinator of the Degree Course in Letters of the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" for the period 2019-2022 and re-elected for a second term from 2022 to 2025. He has held several lessons abroad, in particular in the Swiss branches of Dante Alighieri from 2004 to 2010, in Boston at the Dante Alighieri headquarters and in the Boston College in 2005. Relations with Brazilian universities are intense: Florianopolis, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte. He held the inaugural lecture (“Gymnasium") of the Doctoral Course in Language and Theory of Translation and three lectures to doctoral students at the Universidade Federal De Santa Catarina-Florianopolis in Brazil (17-20 August 2010), he held a lecture at the Universidade Federal of Rio de Janeiro (August 2010); held a conference in the UFRJ in Rio de Janeiro November 2011 on "Pavese, Calvino, and the Six characters of Pirandello"; in 2012 he was appointed visiting professor at the Universidade Federal De Santa Catarina-Florianopolis in Brazil (2-15 June 2012), he was visiting professor at the University of Belo Horizonte-Brazil, with the participation in the Conference on Italo Calvino and a cycle of lectures on literature in prison in August 2014. In 1994 he edited the texts of three documentaries for RAI, directed by Patrizio Barbaro: "Pasolini's Rome", "Pratolini's Florence", "Italo Calvino's Sanremo", broadcasted by the second national network and frequently replicated, from which the experience of "Biografie per immagini" with the publisher Gribaudo was born, one of the first publications to tell the life of writers through photographic memories. Pierangeli, together with Barbaro who takes care of the photographic materials, composed the texts for the following volumes, released between 1995 and 2001: "Pier Paolo Pasolini", "Italo Calvino", "Carlo Emilio Gadda", "Luigi Pirandello", "Giovanni Testori". Among the many conferences organized: 2000, "Pavese un classico moderno", Rome House of Literature, 2012, "Per Guido Morselli", University of Rome - Tor Vergata; 2020, "La filologia fantastica di Michele Mari", National Central Library of Rome, 2021, "L’attesa di un nuovo corso. Mario Pomilio cento anni dopo", National Central Library of Rome, 2023, with Florinda Nardi the conference on Pasolini antesisgnano, which united the three public universities of Rome. Since 2011 he has participated as Head of Literature and Philosophy in the University in Prison Project and is the promoter of various initiatives concerning marginalization and inclusion. In particular, three conferences in the theater of the Rebibbia prison, with the prisoner students as protagonists on the themes of culture and work in prison, on the sociality and affectivity of the prisoners, on social reintegration. These experiences are collected in the volume "Afferrare le redini di una vita nuova. Essays and testimonies on prison", edited by Fabio Pierangeli, Rome, Universitalia, 2014; in the monographic section of "Studium", "Carcere e cultura", n.1, January-February 2017 and in four issues of the international magazine “Mosaico italiano”, printed in Rio de Janeiro, from 2015 to 2019. In 2015 he joined the University Commission for the inclusion of disability, Caris, of which he is still a re-elected member until 2025, as delegate for the Macroarea of Letters and Philosophy. In the same year he founded the Integrated Writing and Reading Laboratory which in 2019 was also included in the LM course of Literature, Linguistics and Philology with the title "Integrated Didactics Laboratory". Students with disabilities together with other students from all over the university are asked to write creative stories, coordinate meetings with writers and publishing personalities, create audiovisuals, contribute to the drafting of texts. From this experience two anthologies of short stories are born in the “Mosaic creativa" series by Loffredo editore: "Con l’augurio di molte farfalle", 2017, edited and with an introduction by Fabio Pierangeli, “Marienbad", 2020, edited by Barbara Stazi and with an introduction by Fabio Pierangeli. Writing is seen as a strong way of identifying one's personality and in some cases as a psychological therapy, useful for a better integration into the student community and for a more serene approach to exams. Since 2019 the laboratory has extended its meetings on the topics of writing in the field of disability in higher education institutions and in 2020 it created, in a very fruitful collaboration between the University and school students with their respective teachers, a PCTO path on the professions of writing, to be able to provide young people, starting from the experience gained in previous years, with a range of new forms of communication, from publishing to the web, that involve constant writing practice. Starting from this experience, the scientific commitment on the issues of disability and prison intensifies, in particular in nineteenth-century short stories and in Pirandello, centering the topic in the volume of Calvino "La giornata d’uno scrutatore", in the monograph on Emilio De Marchi, on Giacomo Leopardi and on Ippolito Nievo, up to the volume on the narrative by Eraldo Affinati, totally centered on the theme of imperfection. Pierangeli works on the theme of characters marked by disabilities in Cesare Pavese and in Elio Vittorini, he plans to resume this type of literary approach in the nineteenth century of Italian writers in the realm of realism and in Edmondo De Amicis, in a triangle of attention that concerns, with disability, also the issues of emigration and exit from prison, as already in the monograph on Emilio De Marchi. The attention to issues relating to cultural, thematic and content studies is combined in Pierangeli's scientific personality, with adherence to the directives of stylistics and with particular regard to the writing laboratory, as in the case of the volumes dedicated to Morselli, to Ungaretti as a journalist, to De Marchi. The interest in the forms of particular harmonies gave rise to the miscellaneous volume coordinated by Pierangeli "Attorno a questo mio corpo...". "The body of writers of Italian literature", Matelica, Hacca editore, 2010, which deals not so much with the subject of physicality in the works of the authors but with describing, calling together the best experts of the writers in question from Dante to contemporaries, of the body of the writer himself, noting, in many cases, a minimal or important degree of disability, which has almost always become an instrument of poetic knowledge and very often of conflict with the society of the healthy. In addition to editing the volume, Pierangeli signed essays on Iacopone da Todi and Alessandro Manzoni. Pierangeli has published about thirty volumes among monographs, collections of essays and edited volumes, plus numerous essays in national and international journals, conference proceedings and miscellaneous papers. Among the authors and the most followed fields: Leopardi, from which the volume "Esplorazioni leopardiane", Manziana, Vecchiarelli, 2010 and subsequent essays more focused on the theme of the deformity of the body, in particular in the Roman months, the nineteenth century novel and “novella" with the underlining of the constant relationship between poverty, disability and madness, Pavese, Gadda, Calvino, Pomilio, literature in prison, fiction and contemporary theater. He has dedicated several essays to the unpublished works by Guido Morselli, partly proposed in the monograph "Sulla scena (inedita) di Guido Morselli", Rome, Universitalia, 2012 and in the volume "Dante a margine e le interrogazioni di Guido Morselli", Milan, Mimesis, 2022. Recent volumes include "Ombre e presenze. Ungaretti e il secondo mestiere", Naples, Loffredo, 2016, "Emilio De Marchi. Condanna e perdono", Naples, Loffredo, 2018, "Eraldo Affinati. La scuola del dono", Rome, Studium, 2019, "Dante a margine e le interrogazioni di Guido Morselli", Milan, Mimesis, 2022. In 2018, he edited the section “Pasolini" on the Italian Encyclopedia for the volume edited by Giulio Ferroni, "The Italian contribution to European culture”, and for the Grandangolo series of «Il Corriere della Sera » the monograph "Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa". The scientific impact of Pierangeli’s work and continuity of publications is attested, in addition to the recent unanimous judgment of the ASN 2020 commission, by the overcoming of all three medians necessary for participation in the Doctoral College of Comparative Studies on Languages, Literature and Arts of the Department of Literary, Linguistic, Philosophical and History of Art Studies of the University of Rome Tor Vergata, and by the participation in May 2023 to the national Teaching College of the Doctorate of Cultural Heritage and Territory of the University of Rome Tor Vergata.