Massimo Lollini

professor

Contact info:
Office: FR 325
Phone: (541) 346-0957
maxiloll@uoregon.edu
Massimo Lollini's Web Site

Degrees, years, and locations:
Laurea, 1978, Bologna; Ph.D., 1992, Yale. (1992)

Research and teaching interests:
baroque and modern Italian literature, comparative modern literature

Courses taught:
ITAL 431/531 Baroque and Neo-Baroque in Italian Literature
ITAL 407/407 Re-reading Petrarch's Canzoniere in the digital era
ITAL 407/507 Italo Calvino
ITAL 481/581 Giacomo Leopardi between philosophy and poetry
ITAL 481/591 Irony and Novel (Manzoni, Verga, Pirandello)
ITAL 461/561 Vico and the Settecento
ITAL 382 Machiavelli and the birth of modern politics
ITALIAN 461-561 Images of the Self in Modern Autobiography
Ital 481/581 Re-reading Manzoni's Promessi sposi
ITAL 491/591 Primo Levi and 20th-Century Literature of Testimony in Italy
ITAL 491/591 Trieste, A Border-line City Between Umberto Saba's Poetry
and Italo Svevo's Novels
RL 407/507 Humanism&Posthumanism
RL 620 Digital Texts and Critical Theory
Rl 620 Autobiography in the Romance World
COLT 610 Vico and the Modern Sublime
COLT 610 Literature and Testimony

Publications:
Massimo Lollini has written widely on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Italian and European literature. In 1994 he published his first book on Giambattista Vico (Le Muse, le Maschere e il Sublime. G.B. Vico e la Poesia nell'età della Ragione Spiegata, Naples: Guida). His work on twentieth-century literature includes articles on Renato Serra, Antonio Gramsci, Italo Calvino, Umberto Saba, Eugenio Mntale, Primo Levi, Norberto Bobbio and Paul Celan. In 2001 he published his second book entitled Il vuoto della forma. Scrittura, testimonianza e verità (Genua: Marietti). This book received the 2002 Premio Letterario Nazionale “Grazia Maria Deledda” in Italy and the 2002 American Association for Italian Studies Book Award in the USA.

In 2006 he co-edited two collection of essays, one with David Castillo, Reason and Its Others. Italy, Spain, and the New World (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2006; and the other with Norma Bouchard, Reading and Writing the Mediterranean: Essays by Vincenzo Consolo (Toronto UP, 2006). In 2007 he edited another collection of essays, L'autobiografia nell'epoca dell'impersonale (Bologna: Il Mulino, "Intersezioni").

He is currently working on three projects:

1) “Autobiography, Death and the Age of the Impersonal”

A book project on the history of the inter-subjective dimension of autobiography.

2) “Humanism&Posthumanism”

A collection of essays and academic Blog devoted to rethinking historical humanism, the idea of "humanism of the other man" and the "Posthuman condition."

2) The Petrarch Project a working database-driven website around Francis Petrarch’s fourteenth-century poetry collection, the Canzoniere.