Giorgio Mariani

Giorgio Mariani è Professore Ordinario di Lingue e Letterature Anglo-Americane presso la Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell'Università Sapienza di Roma. E' stato presidente della I.A.S.A. (International American Studies Association) dal 2011 al 2015. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano la letteratura statunitense dell'Ottocento, i rapporti tra guerra e letteratura moderna, la letteratura indiano-americana contemporanea, la teoria della letteratura. Oltre ai volumi elencati più sotto, ha pubblicato saggi e articoli in numerose riviste italiane ed estere, tra cui, American Literary History, Lev iathan, Studies in Ameirican Ficition, Nuova Corrente, Fictions, FIAR-Focus on Inter-American Research, Stephen Crane Studies, RIAS-The Review of International American Studies, RSA Journal, Zapruder, A.I.O.N., Studi Americani, Letterature d'America, Status Quaestionis, Studia Anglica Posnaniensa, e, naturalmente, Ácoma.

Giorgio Mariani is Professor of American Literature at the “Sapienza” University of Rome, where he coordinates the Doctoral Program in English-language literatures. He served as President of the International American Studies Association (I.A.S.A.) from 2011 to 2015. He is one of the co-editors in-chief of the Italian journal of American Studies Ácoma, as well as a member of the editorial boards of Fictions and RIAS-The Review of international American Studies. His work has concentrated on nineteenth-century American writers (mostly on Melville, Stephen Crane, and Emerson); on contemporary American Indian literature; on literary theory; on the literary and cinematic representation of war. He has published, edited, and co-edited several volumes, including Spectacular Narratives. Representations of Class and War in the American 1890s (1992), Post-tribal Epics. The Native American Novel between Tradition and Modernity (1996), La penna e il tamburo. Gli indiani d’America e la letteratura degli Stati Uniti (The pen and the drum. The American Indians and the literature of the US) (2003) and Le parole e le armi (1999) (words and arms), a collection of essays on US discourses of war and violence from the Puritans to the first Gulf War. His book Waging War on War: Peacefighting in American Literature was published in 2015 by the University of Illinois Press. His essays and reviews have appeared in many journals, including American Literary History, Leviathan , Studies in American Fiction, Fictions, RIAS, RSA Journal, Stephen Crane Studies. His latest book is entitled Waging War on War. Peacefighting in American Literature (University of Illinois Press, 2015).