About
Cristina Savettieri is Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Pisa. Previously she was an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin and a Marie Skłodowaska-Curie Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Together with Carla Benedetti she is the founder of the research network Cantiere umanistico dell'antropocene (based at the University of Pisa), which promotes research on literature, philosophy and the arts against the backdrop of the environmental crisis.
Research focus
- Contemporary Italian Literature
- Literature of the twentieth century
- Modernism
- Ecocritics
- Tragedy in modern culture
Awards
- Edinburgh Gadda Prize as Best Early Career Scholarly Work on Gadda (2010 - University of Edinburgh)
Memberships
- MOD - Società per lo studio della modernità letteraria
- Marie Curie Alumni Association
- Humboldt Network
