Matilde MANARA

I hold a PhD in Comparative Literature (Marie Curie-INSPIRE Fellowship, 2021). I have held research fellowships at the Collège de France (Prix Anna Caroppo, 2023), the Institut LETHICA (Université de Strasbourg, 2024), the Centre Prospéro (UCLouvain–Brussels, FSR Fellowship), and the École normale supérieure (Access ERC Fellowship, 2025). Since October 2025, I am working as a tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTDB) in literary criticism and comparative literature at the University of Catania. My research focuses on the theory of literary genres (especially lyric poetry and essay), gender studies, and textual genetics. My recent publications include Diplopie, sovrimpressioni. Andrea Zanzotto poeta e critico (Pacini, 2021), Così anche noi in un’eco. Il carteggio Fortini-Enzensberger (Quodlibet, 2022), L’intelligence du poème. Lyrisme et pensée chez Valéry, Rilke, Stevens et Montale (Classiques Garnier, 2023), and «Una minima ordalia». Il carteggio Fortini-Zanzotto (Quodlibet, 2025). I am the editor of the Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe volume devoted to Rainer Maria Rilke’s poems from 1925-1926 (Wallstein, in preparation) and the French translator of Adriana Cavarero’s Nonostante Platone (with Marie Kondrat; Nous, forthcoming).