Dr. Carlo Testa

Biography

Carlo Testa received his Laurea in Lettere from the University of Milan in 1978, and pursued graduate studies in German and French Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis, in the 1980s. He completed his Ph.D. in French Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley. Since 1992, he has taught at the University of British Columbia, focusing on literature, cinema, and political social history from 19th-20th century Italy. His research interests encompass Italian contemporary politics, literature, and history, including topics such as Fascism, Italian literature from the 19th and 20th centuries, and translation theory. He has published several works, notably 'Pinocchio: Real Confessions' and has contributed to the study of Italian cinema and its intersections with literature and society. His current projects include a collection of classic European poetry translated into Italian and research on the 19th-century Bavarian-East Frankish apocalyptic poem Muspilli.

Research Interests