Alessia Ricciardi

Alessia Ricciardi is a Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, serving as Director of the Program of Comparative Literary Studies. She holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Pisa, a DEA in Psychoanalysis from Paris VII, and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Yale University. Her research focuses on French/Italian contemporary literature, cinema, political philosophy, psychoanalysis, and gender studies, with emphasis on reparation theory and intercultural literary influences.

She has authored three award-winning books: The Ends of Mourning (2003), After La Dolce Vita (2012), and Finding Ferrante (2021). Current projects include a book on reparation's epistemological dimensions and a collaborative study on seduction in the #MeToo era. She co-founded the Summer Institute of Psychoanalysis with Sorbonne-Nouvelle University.

Her recent scholarship appears in PMLA, Modernism/Modernity, and diacritics, analyzing works by Pasolini, Antonioni, and key theorists like Agamben. At Northwestern, she teaches courses like 'Fashion and Modernity' (undergraduate) and 'Agamben in Context' (graduate).

Awards:

• MLA Scaglione Prize (2004, 2013)
• AAIS Book Prize (2021)

Collaborations: Co-organizes international psychoanalysis conferences and co-authors studies on cultural movements.