Iuri Moscardi
Name: Iuri Moscardi
Title(s): Ph.D student
Affiliation: CUNY Graduate Center – New York (USA)
Bio:
Iuri Moscardi is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature (Italian Specialization) at the Graduate Center, CUNY (City University New York). He graduated in Italian literature from Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy) with a BA (2009) and a MA (2012). Both his degree theses focused on the Italian writer Cesare Pavese: in his BA thesis he analyzed the relevance of the American myth in Pavese’s last novel La luna e i falò, while in his MA thesis he proved Pavese’s contribution to the first Italian translation of Spoon River Anthology. For the relevance of his discovery, his MA thesis was awarded with the Premio Cesare Pavese. In 2016 he received an MA in Italian from Indiana University, Bloomington. His doctoral research is focused on Cesare Pavese, Digital Humanities, and the reader-response theory elaborated by Wolfgang Iser. He is the author of the essays Pavese, Pivano e Spoon River: storia di una traduzione (in Cesare Pavese al tempo del Coronavirus, edited by A. Catalfamo, 2021) and In territorio nemico: Redefining Realism and Literary Tradition (in Deconstructing the Model in 20th and 21st-Century Italian Experimental Writings, edited by B. Cavatorta and F. Santini F, 2019). He also collected and edited the tweets for the eBook Dialoghi con #Leucò di Cesare Pavese. Edizione aumentata a cura di TwLetteratura (Palabanda, 2014). He is the author of many articles, among which it is worth mentioning Pavese senza collina. Assenza del mito e incompiutezza estetica (Ticontre. Teoria Testo Traduzione, 2021), Betwyll: Social reading per la didattica dell’italiano in Nord America (América Crítica, 2020), #TwSposi: un matrimonio che s’ha da fare (Revue des Études Italiennes, 2018), and Collaborative Artistic Theory and Practice. ‘Le ragioni dei gruppi’: TwLetteratura (with Hans Caron, Pierluigi Vaccaneo, and Edoardo Montenegro, Interdisciplinary Italy, 2017). He is the social media manager of Jam It – Journal of American Literature in Italy.
Iuri Moscardi
PhD student – Comparative Literature (Italian Specialization)
CUNY Graduate Center – New York (USA)