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Michael J. Subialka is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at the University of California, Davis, and Director of Graduate Study for Comparative Literature. He previously held positions at the University of Oxford (Powys Roberts Research Fellow in European Literature at St Hugh’s College) and Bilkent University (Visiting Assistant Professor). His research focuses on the interplay between literature and philosophy, with a specialization in Italian modernism, German Idealism, and early 20th-century avant-garde theatre and cinema.
Subialka earned his Ph.D. and M.A. from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought and Romance Languages and Literatures, and a B.A. in Italian and Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame (Phi Beta Kappa). His work bridges literary analysis with philosophical inquiry, examining how artistic forms articulate and reshape idealist thought. His monograph Modernist Idealism: Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature (2021) explores this intersection through Italian modernist authors and their engagement with German philosophy.
He actively collaborates on digital humanities projects, such as the Stories for a Year initiative, a first complete English translation of Luigi Pirandello’s short stories. His co-edited volumes include Scrittura d’immagini: Pirandello e la visualità tra arte, filosofia e psicoanalisi (2021) and Gabriele D’Annunzio and World Literature (2023). Subialka’s research also extends to early modern Italian thought, translation studies, and theatre practice, reflecting his commitment to interdisciplinary and collaborative scholarship.
His teaching spans courses on comparative modernisms, critical theory, and Italian literature and cinema. He maintains a strong interest in theatre direction, having co-directed plays at Oxford and participated in foreign-language theatre productions.
