Name: Marco Petrelli
Title(s): Ph.D.
E-mail: marco.petrelli@unipi.it
Affiliation: Università di Pisa
Bionote:Marco Petrelli is assistant professor of American literature in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. He authored Paradiso in nero: spazio e mito nella narrativa di Cormac McCarthy (Aracne, 2020), Nick Cave. Preghiere di fuoco e ballate assassine (Castel Negrino, 2021), and several essays on Southern literature and culture, American gothic fiction, African American literature, Geocriticism, and graphic narratives that appeared in Italian and international journals. His current research project focuses on the role of ghosts in African American gothic narratives. He is a literary critic for the newspaper Il Manifesto.
Areas of interest: American Gothic; African American Literature; Southern Studies; Critical Theory; Geocriticism