Giulio Genovese

Giulio’s main academic interest focuses on Dante, and especially on Dante’s reception in the 20th and 21st centuries across several media (film, literature, theatre, music). He has also focused on contemporary Italian women writers, in particular Goliarda Sapienza, Claudia Durastanti and Elena Ferrante.

His Ph.D. dissertation dealt with how Dante and his authority as “national” poet were used during the socio-political changes occurred in Italy after the 1968 movements; in particular, by operating a intersemiotic analysis of selected novels, films, songs, and magazines of that time, his work investigated how Dante was both embraced and rejected according to the ideological goals of the several parties in question (intellectuals, filmmakers, magazine editors, musicians).

During his doctoral studies at the University of Pennsylvania, he has also served as a representative for the Graduate Student Government of the School of Arts and Sciences (SASgov) and co-organized a departmental reading group (“Masterpieces of Italian Literature”). Giulio has also served as Graduate Assistant for the American Association of Italian Studies, was a Graduate Research Fellow at Yale University and is currently co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal “Bibliotheca Dantesca”.

Before coming to the United States, Giulio obtained his bachelor's degree at the University of Bologna (2015) and his master's degree at the Università della Svizzera italiana (2017), both times working on Dante and his immediate reception in the 14th century.

Selected Publications:

• “Leonardo Sciascia and Elio Petri’s Todo Modo: Intersemiotic usesof Dante during the anni di piombo” in Immagine. Note di storia del cinema: Vol. 24 (forthcoming)
   
• “La Commedia in giallo: tre esempi di riscritture dantesche” in Perspectives médiévales n. 44, 2023.
   
• “Convergence culture: Marco Martinelli and Ermanna Montanari’s staging of Dante” in La mondializzazione di Dante I: Europa (Ravenna: Angelo Longo Editore, 2022), 179-190.
   
• “Hidden authoriality in Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Novels” in Ferrante Unframed. Authorship, Reception and Feminist Praxis in the Works of Elena Ferrante (Florence: Società editrice Fiorentina, 2021), 89-100.
   
• “Alberto Casadei. ‘Dante. Storia avventurosa della Divina Commedia dalla selva oscura alla realtà aumentata’ Milan: il Saggiatore, 2020”, Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies: Vol. 3, 2020, 186-188.
   
• “Staging Dante Today: A Three-Day Residency Of Teatro Delle Albe At The University Of Pennsylvania”, Bibliotheca Dantesca: Journal of Dante Studies: Vol. 2, 2019, 161-167