Federica G Pedriali

Federica G. Pedriali is Professor of Literary Metatheory and Modern Italian Studies at the University of Edinburgh and Research Affiliate at the Edinburgh Futures Institute. She directs research in the Department of European Languages and Cultures and leads the Edinburgh Journal of Gadda Studies. Awarded the Order of the Star of Italy (2024) for scholarly achievements.

Research encompasses biopolitics, cognitive narratology, decolonial studies, and European modernism. Current work examines crisis governance in European thought, literary canons in the Anthropocene, and intermedial adaptations of Italian literature. Her teaching includes postgraduate modules on biopower, narrative futures, and decolonial methodologies.

Publications consistently engage Italian philosophical traditions while addressing planetary challenges through literary and performance theory. Recent work explores Calvino's intermedial potential in community opera, anthropological plasticity in technological evolution, and crisis as governance framework in European politics.

Principal investigator for international collaborations including the ILIO Observatory on Italian Literature and Una Europa's Europe and World project. Supervises doctoral research at Edinburgh and serves on UKRI Talent Panel College. External examiner for Oxford University, Siena, and Scuola Normale Superiore.