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Eloisa Morra is an Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Toronto. She holds a MA from the Scuola Normale Superiore and a MA and PhD from Harvard.
She is the author of three monographs — La lente di Gadda (Electa 2024, Selection Premio Forum Traiani, Mario Pannunzio Prize), Poetiche della Visibilità (Carocci, 2023) and Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja (Quodlibet, 2014, Edinburgh Gadda Prize) — and of the biography Accendo la luce e divento me stessa. Florine Stettheimer (Electa 2025). Her latest exhibition projects include Calvino cantafavole (Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, 2023) and Pino Pascali Toti Scialoja. Confluenze (Kursaal Santalucia, 2024).
She is a contributing writer at Il Sole 24 ore and The European Review of Books.