Marco Maggi

Marco Maggi is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory and Director of the Master's programme in Italian Language, Literature and Civilisation at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.His studies focus on the intermedial relations of literature, particularly with the visual, from a theoretical, historical and critical perspective. He is currently engaged in a project on the Italian genealogies of inter-arts studies funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation ("20th Century Italian Studies of Literature and Arts"). Another recent project concerns intermedial ecocriticism; a multi-author work in two volumes entitled "Captioned Landscapes: Intermedial Combinations Beyond the Human," edited by him, is due to be published in the United States. His most recent publication is the proceedings of the national conference of the Swiss Association of General and Comparative Literature entitled "On the Edge of the Visible: Comparative Literature and Visuality."