Luigi Marfè is an associate professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature (10/F4) at the University of Padua. Previously he worked in other Italian Universities (Turin, Parma, Siena) on research projects on cultural translation in early modern Europe, on contemporary travel writing and on 19th-century fantasy fiction. He wrote four monographs: “Oltre la fine dei viaggi” (Olschki 2009; shortlisted for the “Premio Pen-Compiano 2010”), “Introduzione alle teorie narrative” (ArchetipoLibri 2011), “In English Clothes. La novella italiana in Inghilterra: politica e poetica della traduzione” (Accademia UP 2015), and , “Un altro modo di raccontare. Poetiche e percorsi della fotoletteratura” (Olschki 2021). He edited the volumes “Borders of the Visible” (“Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism”, 13, 2018), “Profezia e disincanto” (Mesogea 2013), “Sulle strade del viaggio” (Mimesis 2012), “Classico/moderno” (Mesogea 2011). He was a member of research groups funded in competitive calls (PRIN 2006 and 2008; Compagnia di San Paolo 2011; PPD DiSLL 2018). He held lectures in many foreign universities (Oxford, Berlin, Madrid, Dublin, Barcelona, Bristol, Innsbruck) and he is a member of international scientific associations (ESCL, ICLA). He translated into Italian literary works from English, French and Spanish, such as William Shakespeare’s “Titus Andronicus” (Bompiani 2015), Nicolas Bouvier’s “Le Dehors et le Dedans” (ETS 2012) and Adrián Giménez Hutton’s “La Patagonia de Chatwin” (Nutrimenti 2015). He writes reviews for “L’Indice dei Libri” and he contributed to a series of volumes on “Greek Myths” for “Corriere della Sera”. He wrote essays for many Italian and international academic journals. He is in the executive committee of the research centre “Arti della Modernità” and he is in the editorial board of the peer-reviewed academic journal “Cosmo: Comparative Studies in Modernism”.

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