Manuela Marchesini

Manuela Marchesini is an Associate Professor at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Italian literature, art history, and interdisciplinary theoretical frameworks. She examines intersections between literature, visual arts, and historical narratives to challenge ontological binaries and explore the role of storytelling in cultural myth-making.

Her major works include Scrittori in funzione d’altro (2005), analyzing literary style in Contini, Longhi, and Gadda; La galleria interiore dell’Ingegnere (2014), reinterpreting Gadda’s Quer Pasticciaccio; and the forthcoming Merchants of Enchantment: The Existence of Italy, which interrogates historical and theoretical myth dynamics. She co-edited Filosofia dei mondi globali (2017) and publishes in journals like MLN and Italica.

Research interests include queer studies, posthumanism, film theory, and feminist critiques. Her work bridges literary analysis with broader cultural and philosophical discourse, emphasizing interdisciplinary methodologies.

No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned. She advises no formally listed students. Current research projects focus on Italian literature’s engagement with historical and theoretical frameworks to evade reductive binaries.