Eloisa Morra

Eloisa Morra is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, specializing in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Visual Culture with a focus on intermediality, literary archives, and translation practices.

• Ph.D., Harvard University
• M.A., Scuola Normale Superiore
• M.A., Università di Pisa
• B.A., Università di Pisa

Her research examines interdisciplinary intersections between text and image, particularly in authors’ archives, gender dynamics, and appropriation of classical themes. She has curated exhibitions like Calvino Cantafavole and In Africa it is another story, bridging academic and public audiences.

Recent publications include La lente di Gadda (2024) and Poetiche della visibilità (2023), analyzing intermediality in Italian modernism. She coordinates the Sciascia Archive Project and is preparing a reissue of feminist theorist Armanda Guiducci’s work.

Scientific Awards:

• 2021 Gladys G. Krieble Delmas Foundation Grant
• 2020 Institute of Modern Language Research Fellowship
• 2019 Edinburgh Gadda Prize Special Mention
• 2018 Centre for Italian Modern Art-Civitella Ranieri Fellowship
• 2016 Harvard GSAS Dissertation Fellowship

Morra teaches courses on 19th-21st century Italian literature and visual culture, while editing interdisciplinary collections and contributing to Il Sole 24 ore.