PhD in ITALIAN STUDIES AND ART HISTORY

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Raffaele Manica after having worked as a tenured middle and high school teacher, he became an assistant professor of Italian literature in 1988 (L-FIL-LET/10) at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. He was made associate professor of Italian literature in 2005 (L-FIL-LET/10) and full tenured professor of contemporary Italian literature in 2018 (L-FIL-LET/11) at the same institution, where he is affiliated with the Department of Literary, Philosophical and Art History Studies in the School of Humanities. At “Tor Vergata” Prof. Manica teaches modern and contemporary Italian literature at all departmental levels. From 2003 to the present, he has served on the Academic Board, first, of Italian Studies PhD Program and, then, of Comparative Literature PhD Program. Prof. Manica’s research has always received the highest assessment in the quality of research evaluation (VQR). Manica has given lectures, seminars, and participated in various conferences throughout Italy (in Rome at “La Sapienza” and “Roma Tre,” Florence, Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Urbino, Palermo, Chieti, Salerno, Trento, Parma, Cassino, Pescara, University for Foreigners of Siena, of Naples “L’Orientale”, etc.) and abroad (Paris-Sorbonne, Caen, Toronto), as well as conferences held in important cultural institutions (Accademia dei Lincei, Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Paris, Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence, Istituto superiore per gli studi filosofici in Naples, Suor Orsola Benincasa in Naples, Istituto tridentino di cultura, Pro Civitate di Assisi, Casa delle Letterature di Roma, Fondazione Bellonci in Rome, Calvino Prize in Turin, Mondello Prize, Fondazione De Sanctis, Accademia di San Luca in Rome etc.). Since 2006, he has been editor in chief of the journal Nuovi Argomenti. He writes articles on 20th century classics in “Alias,” the cultural section of the national newspaper Il Manifesto. He has been published in Nuovi Argomenti and many other established left-wing publications (both academic and popular), focusing on the 20th century, e.g., Paragone, Paradigma, Studi Novecenteschi, Nuova corrente, Rivista di letteratura italiana, Forum Italicum, Studium, The New York Review of Books, Lo straniero, Il caffè illustrato, L’Indice, etc. He has collaborated with cultural radio programs broadcasted by the national Rai Radio 3 and various publishing initiatives. He has contributed entries to the Dizionario dell’Opera (1996), Enciclopedia del cinema, and Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Prof. Manica has written extensively on 20th century literature (his opus has been partially printed in four volumes) as well as on past Italian literature (especially of the 16th century). He published the biographies of Alberto Moravia and Mario Praz. He edited and wrote the introduction to the complete works of Alberto Arbasino and Enzo Siciliano, both for Mondadori’s “Meridiani” series. For the same collection in 2021 he designed, widely introduced and annotated (with an extensive chronology and bibliography), "The critical spectator. Poetry, philosophy, literature", the volume of Nicola Chiaromonte's essays. He is member of Accademia dell’Arcadia. He is the recipient of the 2007 Napoli Prize for his essay “Exit Novecento;” of the 2010 Francesco De Sanctis Prize for his introduction to the “Meridiani” series complete works of Arbasino; of the 2018 Bonura Prize for militant leftist criticism; of the 2019 Val di Comino Prize for his collective work; and of the 2019 international Mondello prize for his monograph Praz. His research is mainly devoted to 20th century poets, writers, and essayists.