Salvatore Pappalardo

Dr. Pappalardo holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Translation Studies from the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) in Trieste, Italy. He is the author of the monograph Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870–1945 (Bloomsbury Academic 2021). He teaches courses that range from the ancient Mediterranean to nineteenth and twentieth century literature, European modernism, Comparative and World literature.

Education

• PhD Rutgers University (2005 — 2011)
• Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Università degli Studi di Trieste (1998 — 2003)
• High School Diploma Liceo Linguistico S.Angela Merici (1993 — 1998)

Areas of Expertise

• World Literature
• 19th and 20th Century Literature

Research:

European Modernism (Austrian, Italian, Anglo-Irish), Sicily and Mediterranean Studies, Comparative Literature, World Literature

Publications (selected)

Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870–1945. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

“Sciascia scrittore arabo.” “Un arabo che ha letto Montesquieu:” Sciascia e il mediterraneo sud-orientale. Edited by Giovanni Capecchi. Firenze: Leo Olschki (forthcoming 2021).

“Va là che sei proprio coccola:” Habsburg Trieste after the Great War in Fulvio Tomizza’s Franziska.” Mito e realtà della Grande Guerra. Ed. Marina Della Putta Johnston. Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2020. 59–70.

“Soldat und Redakteur: Robert Musil und der italienische Irredentismus in der Tiroler Soldaten-Zeitung.” Oberleutnant Robert Musil als Redakteur der Tiroler Soldatenzeitung. Eds. Mariaelisa Dimino, Elmar Locher and Massimo Salgaro. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2019. 209–226.

“From Ibn Ḥamdīs to Giufà: Leonardo Sciascia and the Writing of a Siculo-Arab Literary History.” Italian Culture 36.1 (2018): 32–47.

“Habsburg Loyalties as Intellectual Affinities: Non-National Allegiances in Robert Musil and Bernard Bolzano.” Robert Musil’s Intellectual Affinities. Musiliana, Band 17. Eds. Todd Cesaratto and Brett Martz. Bern, Oxford, New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 149–175.

“The Betrayal of the Urbs Fidelissima: Habsburg Trieste in Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften.” The German Quarterly 89.2 (Spring 2016): 169–185.

“Waking Europa: Joyce, Ferrero, and the Metamorphosis of Irish History.” Journal of Modern Literature 34.2 (Winter 2011): 154–177.

“One Last Austrian Cigarette: Italo Svevo and Habsburg Trieste.” Prospero: Rivista di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali 16 (2011): 67–88.

Grants and Awards (selected)

• Honors College Professor of the Year, Towson University, 2019
• American Council of Learned Societies, Project Development Grant, 2018–2019
• Max Kade Prize for the Best Article of the Year in The German Quarterly for 2016 (awarded 2017)

Memberships and Affiliations:

• Modern Language Association
• Modernist Studies Association
• German Studies Association
• American Association for Italian Studies