Stefano Franceschini
Name: Stefano Franceschini
Title(s): Ph.D Candidate
Affiliation: Roma Tre University
Brief description:
Stefano Franceschini is a PhD student at Roma Tre University. Stefano’s doctoral project—“What Does That Tune Mean?”: Phonosemiosis and Heteromediality in Richard Powers’s Novels—seeks to examine the interconnection between meaning, music, and sound in the works of Richard Powers, with a focus on the musicality of the novels The Gold Bug Variations (1991), The Time of Our Singing (2003) and Orfeo (2014). The Italian Association for North American Studies (AISNA) awarded him the 2021 edition of the Caterina Gullì prize for his MA dissertation on H. P. Lovecraft’s cosmicist tales, A New Supernatural Literature: Cosmic Art and Parascience in H. P. Lovecraft’s Fiction. He is currently member of AISNA and of the scientific committee of the Center for American Studies in Rome. Stefano has recently conducted research at the Center for Intermediality Studies in Graz (CIMiG) as a recipient of the “Ernst Mach Grant Worldwide” scholarship. He has also published articles and reviews on H.P. Lovecraft, Ambrose Bierce, and Richard Powers. His research interests include intermediality, Gothic and weird fiction, semiotics, and philosophy of music.