Gabriele Ferracci

Gabriele Ferracci serves as a Contract Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Genoa, teaching Anglo-American Literature and Culture I (2025-2026) and Anglo-American Literature and Culture II (2024-2025) for the Modern Languages and Cultures degree program.

His research specializes in 19th-century American literary and cultural history, with particular focus on travel narratives documenting westward expansion. He examines how river journeys shaped cultural perceptions of the American frontier through interdisciplinary analysis of historical geography and literary expression.

His publication "On the River Road. Traveling the Rivers of the West, 1803–1861." (2019) establishes a thematic framework connecting transportation routes to cultural identity formation, analyzing primary accounts from the Lewis and Clark expedition through pre-Civil War expansion periods.