Teaching staff

Giulio Iacoli (b. Modena, 1974) holds a Laurea in Classical Literature at the University of Bologna, received a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Cagliari, and since 2006 is ricercatore (assistant professor) at the University of Parma, Dipartimento di Italianistica, where he presently teaches courses in Comparative Literature and Theory and History of Literary Genres.
His main interests are cultural geography, gender studies, contemporary novel writing, comparisons between architecture, cinema and literature. He has published several essays on contemporary novel writing (Buzzati, Calvino, D’Arzo, Perec, Queneau, DeLillo, Guibert) as well as on issues of gender and representation (cultural geography and maps, the JFK assassination, Bergman, Susan Sontag, Almodóvar, the image of the city in Italian contemporary cinema), and is author of Atlante delle derive. Geografie da un’Emilia postmoderna: Gianni Celati, Pier Vittorio Tondelli (Diabasis, 2002).
He has also edited in 2005 a special issue of the review “Poetiche”, devoted to Pier Vittorio Tondelli, and is currently working on a book manuscript addressing the perception of space between Modernism and Postmodernism.