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Isotta Piazza is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Parma's Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Cultural Enterprises. She serves as Vice-Rector for the Right to Education and Student Services, and Deputy President of the Master's Degree Course in Journalism, Editorial Culture and Multimedia Communication. Her research focuses on editorial canonization, media space theory, narrative genres, and the history of Italian publishing. She coordinates the Officina 900 project and is involved in editorial archives and doctoral programs. Recent leadership includes a PRIN 2022 grant for her project on the relationship between short stories and periodicals in modern Italy.
Her academic roles include coordinating doctoral studies in philological and literary sciences and advising on editorial communication strategies. She participates in committees such as the Communication Study and Archive Center (CSAC) and the Research and Third Mission Commission. Her teaching spans Contemporary Literature and Publishing Systems across multiple cohorts of undergraduate and graduate programs in Literature and Journalism.
Key research themes include the dynamics between literary systems and publishing, modernist movements like Solaria magazine, and the evolution of Catholic publishing in the 19th century. Her recent publications address contemporary canon formation, media-narrative intersections, and author-industry relationships in 20th-century Italian literature.
