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Degrees: Ph.D, Yale University MA, University of Virginia Laurea in Modern Languages and Literatures, University of Pisa Interests Enrico Cesaretti is an Associate Professor of Italian at UVA. He holds a Laurea in Modern Languages and Literatures (English and German) from the University of Pisa (Italy), a MA from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D from Yale University. His research so far has been dealing primarily with nineteenth and twentieth-century Italian literature and focused, in particular, on Futurism and the avant-garde period. His articles have appeared in Italian Studies, Annali d’Italianistica, Modern Language Notes, Comparative Literature, Romance Studies, Ecozon@ and Symposium, among others. He is the author of two books: Castelli di carta: retorica della dimora tra Scapigliatura e Surrealismo (Longo, 2001), and Fictions of Appetite: Alimentary Discourses in Italian Modernist Literature (Peter Lang, 2013). The latter book lies at the intersection of food studies and literary criticism, and offers new interpretations of texts by F. T. Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Paola Masino, Massimo Bontempelli and Luigi Pirandello. In these days, he is interested in the application of ecocritical theories to the Italian natural-cultural context and is working on two book projects: Landscapes, Natures, Ecologies. Italy and the Environmental Humanities (co-edited with S. Iovino and E. Past), and a manuscript tentatively titled Telling Matters: Narratives of Human and Nonhuman Entanglements in Modern Italy.