Andrea MANGANARO

Andrea Manganaro is Full Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Catania.

• He is:
• National President of the Association of Italianists-Didactic Section (ADI-SD) and member by right of the Executive Board of the Association of Italianists (ADI).
• Vice-President of the Scientific Council of the “ Fondazione Verga”, International Centre for the Study of Verga and Verismo, included among the National Centres of Excellence for Research.
•  Head of the Section of Italianistics and Comparatistics of the Department of Humanities, University of Catania.
• He is co-editor of the Class A journals "Annali della Fondazione Verga" and "Le forme e la storia" journals
• He is member of:   the scientific committees of the following class A journals: «Studi italiani» (Firenze); «Studi e problemi di critica testuale» (Bologna);  «DNA Di Nulla Academia. Rivista di studi camporesiani» (Bologna);"Italica" (Journal of AATI, American Association of Teachers of Italian); the Board of Directors of “Leonardiana” (Pisa);  international scientific committees of "Italianistica Debreceniensis" (University of Debrecen), of the "Revista Internacional de Culturas y Literaturas" (RICL) (University of Seville), of the "RSEI. Revista de la Sociedad Española de Italianistas" (University of Salamanca); of the scientific committees of various publishing series (including "Letteratura italiana. Saggi e strumenti', FrancoAngeli, Milan; 'I sentieri della letteratura - Metodi, percorsi e prospettive nella didattica dei testi letterari', Patron, Bologna; “Studi e testi”, Società Editrice Fiorentina, Firenze).
• Participates in the Project PNRR - CHANGES (Cultural Heritage Active Innovation for Sustainable Society); SPOKE 3 (Digital libraries, archives and philology): Realisation of digital editions of 19th century Italian literature texts: Verga.
• He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the International Inter-University Research Group ‘The Tale in Italian Literature’
• He is a referee for a dozen class A Italianistic journals.
• He has participated, as a speaker and organiser, in a large number of national and international conferences. He has given seminars and lectures at numerous foreign universities. In the academic year 2018-19, he was "Goggio Visiting Professor" at the University of Toronto, where, among other things, he taught a course on the History of Italian Literary Criticism, as part of the institutional "graduate" courses.
• His research and publications span the entire chronological span of Italian literature, and focus on the relationship between literary forms and history, fiction, the history of criticism, and the debate of ideas. In particular, they focus on: the Italian novella (Boccaccio, 16th century); Foscolo; Verga; history of literary criticism and historiography: poetics of the 16th century; the early 19th century; the 19th and 20th centuries (in particular De Sanctis and Croce); didactics of literature. His philological interests mainly concern the work of Benedetto Croce and Giovanni Verga. He edited the critical edition of Storie e leggende napoletane (National Edition of the works of Benedetto Croce. Writings on literary and political history. VII) and is currently editing the critical edition of Storia di una capinera (National Edition of the works of Giovanni Verga).
• He is the author, to date, of 174 scientific publications (12 books, 16 editorships, 74 book articles, 70 articles in scientific journals, including 34 in class A journals). These publications include the critical edition:  Benedetto Croce, Storie e leggende napoletane, Napoli, Bibliopolis, 2019, 2 vols., pp. 744; the edition, with scientific commentary, of Gaetano Compagnino, Institutions of Literary Criticism and Methodology (2024); the monographs: La ferinità umana, la guerra, lo spatriare. Riletture verghiane (2021); Per la didattica della letteratura italiana (2020); Tra imitatio e mimesis, Novelle e poetiche del Cinquecento (2014); "Jusque datum sceleri". Foscolo e la memoria dei vinti (2014); Partenze senza ritorno. Interpretare Verga (2014); Il rappezzo ininterrotto. Benedetto Croce tra scritture e riscritture (2012); Verga (2011); Significati della letteratura. Scritture e idee da Castelvetro a Timpanaro (2007).
• He graduated in Literature in 1985, at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Catania, with a thesis on the 16th-century field, supervisor Gaetano Compagnino (110/110 with honours and dignity, 'Lanzerotti Pantano' prize for the best thesis in Literature of the year 1985). From 1987 to 1990, he was the coordinator of the Catania office of a project (for the Ministry of Culture) for the valorisation of archival assets, and he prepared the computerised inventory of the fonds of ancient Sicilian notaries (up to 1860) kept at the State Archives in Catania.  Under the guidance of Gaetano Compagnino, he obtained his PhD in Literary and Linguistic Sciences, cycle VII, announced by the Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research (administrative seat University of Catania) with a thesis on Benedetto Croce, discussed before the national commission at the University of Pavia on 6.12.1996. Winner of three different competitions for ordinary professorships, based on examinations and qualifications, in upper secondary schools, he was a tenured teacher of Italian and Latin in high schools from 1992 to 2004, and from 2000 to 2004 he was also a supervisor of the internship for the linguistic-literary course at the Sicilian Inter-University School of Specialisation for Secondary Teaching (SISSIS) of the University of Catania, without ever interrupting his collaboration, in research and teaching, with the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy (chairs of Methodology and History of Literary Criticism, Theory of Literature, Italian Literature).
•  He has been on university staff since 2005

Catania,  01/02/2025                         Andrea Manganaro