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Alessia Ricciardi is the Herman Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor at Northwestern University, specializing in Comparative Literature. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Pisa, a DEA (master's degree) from Paris VII focusing on psychoanalysis, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Her main research interests include French and Italian contemporary literature, cinema, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, and gender studies. Ricciardi has published several influential books, including 'Ends Mourning' (2003), which won the MLA's 2004 Scaglione Prize, and 'Finding Ferrante: Authorship Politics World Literature' (2021), which explores the identity and authorship of the pseudonymous novelist Elena Ferrante. In 2021, she was awarded the American Association of Italian Studies Book Prize for Literary Studies. Ricciardi is also involved in organizing the Isabelle Alfandary Summer Institute of Psychoanalysis, which brings together scholars from international universities to examine the impact of psychoanalytic thought on culture. She has taught various courses at Northwestern University, focusing on modernity and cinema, among other topics.
Northwestern University • Evanston, IL
Herman Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor and director of Comparative Literary Studies.
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