Francesca Medaglia

Francesca Medaglia is currently Assistant Professor (RTDB) in Comparative Literature at Sapienza - University of Rome. She holds her PhD in Italian Studies/Comparative Literature with a thesis entitled 'Co-authored literature' at Sapienza - University of Rome, where she holds also her bachelor degree in “Comparative Literature”, with a thesis entitled 'Poetics of Relation in the Archipelago of Cape Verde' and where she has obtained the master degree in “Literature and Language. Italian and European Studies”, with a thesis entitled 'Migrant Women: Writing the feminine'. She was at UCL (University College London) as a 6-month Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei postdoctoral scholarship holder, to carry out research at CenTraS and SELCS as Affiliate Academic. As the prestigious funding body in Italy, the Accademia supports her project on 20th-century Italian authors entitled "Allegory and Psychology in Multi-authorship Writing. The cases of 'Fuoco grande' by C. Pavese and B. Garufi and 'Pelle d’asino' by A. Giuliani and E. Pagliarani". She was at Fondazione Giorgio Cini – Centro Branca (Venice) as a 1-month Postdoctoral scholarship holder with a project entitled "The collaboration among artists and the analysis of the Botta Fonds to investigate the literary debate at the beginning of the 20th-century". She has published four books: "La scrittura a quattro mani" (PensaMultimedia, Lecce-Brescia, 2014), "Asimmetrie ibride nella critica di Antonino Contiliano" (CFR, Piateda, 2014), "Il ritmo dei tempi in Antonino Contiliano" (Empirìa, Rome, 2014), and 'Autore/personaggio: interferenze, complicazioni e scambi di ruolo. Autori e personaggi complessi nella contemporaneità letteraria e transmediale' (Lithos, Roma, 2020). She has lectured at national and international conferences.