Andrea MANGANARO

Full Professor of Italian literature [L-FIL-LET/10]

Office: Studio n. 109 (I piano del Monastero dei Benedettini)
Email: a.manganaro@unict.it; ottavia.branchina@phd.unict.it luisamirone@gmail.com
Web Site: unict.academia.edu/AndreaManganaro
Office Hours: Tuesday from 12:00 to 13:00 | Thursday from 10:00 to 12:00

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Andrea Manganaro is Full Professor of Italian Literature, at the University of Catania, Department of Humanities. He is:

National President of the Associazione degli Italianisti-Sezione Didattica (ADI-SD) and member of the executive board of the Associazione degli Italianisti (ADI).
Vice- president of the Scientific council of the Fondazione Verga;
Delegate of the Rector of the University of Catania to the Giovanni Verga Centenary Committee (Sicily Region) and member of the National Committee for the Centenary celebrations of the death of Giovanni Verga (Ministry of Culture).

He was for five years (2016-2021) a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Catania.

He is co-editor of the «Annali della Fondazione Verga» (ranked as class A journal by ANVUR- (Italian National Agency for the evalutation of Universities and research institute). He is part of the editorial boards: of the following class A journals: «Le forme e la storia»; «Studi italiani» (Firenze); «Italica» (Journal of AATI, American Association of Teachers of Italian); of the following journals: «Italianistica Debreceniensis» (University of Debrecen, HU); «Revista Internacional de Culturas y Literaturas» (RICL) (University of Sevilla)

In 2018-19 he was "Goggio Visiting Professor" at the University of Toronto (Canada), where he taught History of criticism and Italian literary historiography at the Department of Italian Studies, as part of the "graduate" institutional courses. (https://www.italianstudies.utoronto.ca/research/emilio-goggio-chair-italian-studies#-goggio-chairs-and-visiting-professors-accordion-3)

In University of Catania, Department of Humanities, he teaches Italian literature in the degree course in Literature, History of Italian literary criticism and Didactics of literature in Master Degree in Modern Philology.

- His publications and research interests cover the entire chronological span of Italian literature with a focus on the relationship between literary forms and history, fiction, poetics, the history of criticism, as well as intellectual history. In particular, he works on the Italian short story (Boccaccio, sixteenth century), Foscolo, Verga, history of criticism: sixteenth century poetics, the early nineteenth century and the twentieth century (especially De Sanctis, Croce); didactics of literature.

His philological interests mainly concern the work of Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Verga. He edited Storie e leggende napoletane (National Edition of Benedetto Croce's works) and he is editing Storia di una capinera (National Edition of Giovanni Verga’s works)

- He is author of 136 scientific publications (including 9 books and dozens of articles in journals rated as excellent). Among these, critical edition: Benedetto Croce, Storie e leggende napoletane, edited by Andrea Manganaro, Napoli, Bibliopolis, 2019 (National edition of Benedetto Croce's works. Scritti di storia letteraria e politica. VII), 2 voll., pp. 1-744 (see, the numerous reviews in the press and in scientific journals: https://unict.academia.edu/AndreaManganaro/Book-Reviews; or, on this same teacher's page, the heading Research Activities); the books: - Significati della letteratura. Scritture e idee da Castelvetro a Timpanaro (Sciascia, 2007); -Verga (Bonanno, 2011); - Il rappezzo ininterrotto. Benedetto Croce tra scritture e riscritture (Bonanno, 2012); - Tra imitatio e mimesis. Novelle e poetiche del Cinquecento (Rubbettino, 2014);- "Jusque datum sceleri". Foscolo e la memoria dei vinti (Euno Edizioni, 2014);- Partenze senza ritorno. Interpretare Verga (Edizioni del Prisma, 2014); - Per la didattica della letteratura italiana (Bonanno, 2020); - La ferinità umana, la guerra, lo spatriare. Riletture verghiane (Fondazione Verga-Euno Edizioni, 2021). He has edited: “Forme e Storia”. Studi in ricordo di Gaetano Compagnino («Le forme e la storia», n. s., I, 2008, n. 1-2), Rubbettino, 2008, pp. 1430; La novella (Rubbettino, «Le forme e la storia», n. s. 2013, 2); Letteratura, alterità, dialogicità. Studi per Antonio Pioletti, with Eliana Creazzo and Gaetano Lalomia, («Le forme e la storia», n. s. VIII, 2015, 1-2), Rubbettino, 2016, pp. 1054; - Verga e noi. La critica, il canone, le nuove interpretazioni, with Riccardo Castellana and Pierluigi Pellini («Annali della Fondazione Verga», n. s. 9, 2016,); Verga e “gli altri”. La biblioteca, i presupposti, la ricezione, with Felice Rappazzo («Annali della Fondazione Verga», n. s. 11, 2018, pp. 314); «I suoi begli anni»: Verga tra Catania e Milano (1871-1892). Atti del convegno internazionale di studi per il quarantennale della Fondazione Verga (Catania, 19-21 aprile 2018; Milano, 28-30 novembre 2018), with Gabriella Alfieri, Silvia Morgana, Giuseppe Polimeni (Fondazione Verga-Euno Edizioni, 2020), pp. 1-780 .

- He has participated to several national and international conferences both as a presenter and as an organizer. He is a member of the AATI (American Association of Teachers of Italian) and has attended AATI conferences both as an organizer of panels and participant. He had held numerous conferences and lectures invited by several Universities such as the University of Toronto, Department of Italian Studies (where he held two "Goggio lectures", on Verga and De Sanctis), and Toronto-Mississagua, Department of Language Studies (Ontario, Canada), Dickinson College (Pennsylvania, USA), University of Paris 8 (France), Turku (Finland), Murcia (Spain), Liege (Belgium), Düsseldorf (Germany), Athens (Greece), Debrecen (Hungary), Szombathely-Nyugat Magyarorszagy Egyetem (Hungary), Warszawa (Poland).

- In 1985 he obtained a Laurea degree in Italian Literature at the University of Catania with a dissertation on the Italian literature of the 16^th Century. From 1987 to 1990, he was in charge of the project of the Ministry of Culture to preserve the historical notary records kept in the State Archive in Catania. In 1996, he was awarded a PhD in Literature Science and Linguistic during the VII cycle of MIUR (Italian Ministry of Research and Education) with a PhD dissertation on Benedetto Croce. He conducted his research at the University of Catania and defended his Ph.D. dissertation in front of a national committee at the University of Pavia in 1996.

Catania, 20/09/2022 Andrea Manganaro

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italian short story: Boccaccio, short story of the sixteenth century;
Foscolo;
Giovanni Verga, verism, naturalism, realism;
History of criticism: poetics of the sixteenth century; classicism and romanticism in the early nineteenth century; literary criticism and historiography between nineteenth century and twentieth century (especially De Sanctis, Russo, Gramsci);
Benedetto Croce narrator and critic between the nineteenth and twentieth century;
National edition of Benedetto Croce's works: Storie e leggende napoletane critical edition;
National edition of Giovanni Verga's works: Storia di una capinera;
thematic criticism: contagions; war; literature/medicine
didactics of literature.

Recent publications:

La ferinità umana, la guerra, lo spatriare. Riletture verghiane,, Catania-Leonforte, Fondazione Verga-Euno Edizioni, 2021, pp. 192
Per la didattica della letteratura italiana, Acireale-Roma, Bonanno, 2020, pp. 152
Critical Edition: Benedetto Croce, Storie e leggende napoletane, edited by A. Manganaro, Napoli, Bibliopolis, 2019 (National edition of the works of Benedetto Croce. Writings of literary and political history. VII), 2 voll., pp. 1-744

See: https://www.academia.edu/43434695/Benedetto_Croce_Storie_e_leggende_napoletane_a_cura_di_Andrea_Manganaro_Napoli_Bibliopolis_2019_Edizione_Nazionale_delle_Opere_di_Benedetto_Croce_Scritti_di_storia_letteraria_e_politica_VII_2_voll_pp_1_744_ISBN_978_88_7088_409_8

See reviews in the national press and in scientific journals:

Mario Pozzi, in "Giornale Storico della Letteratura Italiana", 2022, n. 666, pp. 301-308

https://www.academia.edu/83882793/Mario_Pozzi_Benedetto_Croce_Storie_e_leggende_napoletane_a_cura_di_Andrea_Manganaro_Giornale_Storico_della_Letteratura_Italiana_2022_666

Carmelo Tramontana, in "Per leggere", n. 40, 2021

https://www.academia.edu/54412419/C_Tramontana_B_Croce_Storie_e_leggende_napoletane_a_cura_di_A_Manganaro_Edizione_Nazionale_delle_Opere_in_Per_leggere_n_40_2021

Nicolò Mineo, in "Italica", 2021, 1, pp. 211-213

https://www.academia.edu/51196387/N_Mineo_Recensione_Edizione_Nazionale_Opere_di_B_Croce_Storie_e_leggende_napoletane_a_cura_di_A_Manganaro_in_Italica_2021_1

Lorenzo Abbate, in "La Rassegna della letteratura italiana", 2020, 2, pp. 578-580

https://www.academia.edu/45481407/Lorenzo_Abbate_Recensione_B_Croce_Storie_e_leggende_napoletane_a_cura_di_A_Manganaro_Napoli_Bibliopolis_2019_in_La_Rassegna_della_letteratura_italiana_2020_2_pp_578_580

Maria Panetta, in "Diacritica" , 37, 21 febbraio 2021

https://diacritica.it/recensioni/recensione-a-benedetto-croce-storie-e-leggende-napoletane-a-cura-di-andrea-manganaro.html