Academic interests
- Film Theory, Italian Transnational Cinema, World Cinema
- Postcolonial Theory
- French, Italian and English Literature
- Ecocriticism, Environmental Humanities
- Affect Theory
Education
- PhD, Comparative Literature, Yale University
- MA, Cultural Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
- BA, Italian Literature, University of Padova
Background
Alessandro Brunazzo is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages (ILOS) conducting the two-year project "That Sinking Feeling": Ecocritical Approach to Land Subsidence in Italy's Po Delta region (Earthsea). He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University and was previously adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University in Florence and at the University of Virginia in Siena (CET).
Alessandro's main research interests lie at the intersection between the environmental humanities, film studies, and affect theory. He adopts multidisciplinary and transnational approaches to world cinema, Italian, English, French literature, and ecocriticism.
His previous project focused on the reinterpretation, challenge, and 'provincialization' of Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini's work by Global South directors and visual artists. He is working on a monograph entitled Double Exposures: Pasolini and the Global South/The Global South and Pasolini.
His current project investigates the ways in which contemporary literature, cinema, and media have actively shaped and contributed to past and present debates over land subsidence in the Po River delta, its causes, and the dynamic transformation of the terrain.