Description:
In 1991, poets and scholars gathered for a conference on the state of Italian and American poetry. Thirty years later, another conference took place in the very same rooms, to investigate the same issues, with a new generation of writers.
Brief description: Iuri Moscardi is Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Bryn Mawr College. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature (Italian Specialization) from the Graduate Center, CUNY, with a dissertation analyzing the Digital Social Reading projects of Twitteratura that allowed readers to comment on canonical Italian authors in an innovative way. He edited the volumes Cesare Pavese Mythographer, Translator, Modernist (2023) and the complete English translation of Pavese's Il mestiere di vivere (forthcoming). He collaborated with professors Luigi Ballerini, Beppe Cavatorta, and Gianluca Rizzo in the poetry anthology Those Who From Afar Look like Flies. His articles appeared in Italica, Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, and Revue des Études Italiennes.