About

Eloisa Morra is currently an associate professor of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto. She earned a BA and MA from the Scuola Normale Superiore and a PhD from Harvard. She is the author of Poetiche della Visibilità (Carocci 2023) and Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja (Quodlibet 2014, Edinburgh Gadda Prize, 2015) and is finishing a book on Italy’s greatest Modernist author, Carlo Emilio Gadda. Among her latest exhibition project there is Calvino cantafavole (Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, October 2023- April 2024, with L. Scarlini). She is the editor of several books and special journal issues. Her essays and criticism have appeared in publications ranging from LA Review of Books, European Review of Books, New York Times, Flash Art, Il Tascabile, to Lettere italiane and Italica. She is a contributing writer at Il Sole 24 and the co-editor and of the series Elettra.