{"id":331,"date":"2025-02-16T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-16T09:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/?page_id=331"},"modified":"2025-07-15T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:33:18","slug":"dr-umberto-rossi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/members\/working-team\/dr-umberto-rossi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Umberto Rossi"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized is-style-default\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"253\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250216_214923_HDR-1-edited-253x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-354\" style=\"width:353px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250216_214923_HDR-1-edited-253x300.jpg 253w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250216_214923_HDR-1-edited-864x1024.jpg 864w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250216_214923_HDR-1-edited-768x910.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250216_214923_HDR-1-edited-1296x1536.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250216_214923_HDR-1-edited-1728x2048.jpg 1728w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250216_214923_HDR-1-edited-1200x1422.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/597\/2025\/02\/IMG_20250216_214923_HDR-1-edited-1980x2346.jpg 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> <a href=\"mailto:scardanelli15@gmail.com\">scardanelli15@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Independant Scholar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brief summary of research interests<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Umberto Rossi is an independent scholar, teacher and literary critic. He has published an introduction to 20th Century war literature (<em>Il secolo di fuoco<\/em>, Bulzoni, 2008) and quite a few articles on war literature and comics. He has published a monograph on Philip K. Dick,&nbsp;<em>The Twisted Worlds of Philip K. Dick<\/em>&nbsp;(McFarland 2011) and&nbsp;edited a collection of essays on Thomas Pynchon&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>V.<\/em>&nbsp;with Paolo Simonetti,<em>&nbsp;Dream Tonight of Peacock Tails&nbsp;<\/em>(CSP 2015), is a member of the SFRA and the editorial board of Peter Lang&#8217;s World Science Fiction Studies. He is a member of the ICLA Research Committee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected publications<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>2024 <\/strong>&nbsp;\u201c<em>Moi, Ren\u00e9 Tardi, Prisonner de guerre au Stalag IIB<\/em>: Postmemory and Anachronistic Narration in Tardi&#8217;s Graphic Post-Memoir\u201d. Cristina Pividori and David Owen (eds.),&nbsp;<em>(Re)writing War in Contemporary Literature and Culture: Beyond Post-Memory<\/em>. Routledge, pp.38-47<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023<\/strong> \u201cSenza via d&#8217;uscita: Guerra e tossicodipendenza in &#8216;Yanqui Doodle&#8217; di Alice Sheldon, alias James Tiptree Jr.\u201d&nbsp;<em>ContactZone<\/em>&nbsp;, 69-81,&nbsp;DOI: 10.26379\/1900<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2023<\/strong>&nbsp;\u201cYoked in Gowanus: Jonathan Lethem&#8217;s Bad City in&nbsp;<em>The Fortress of Solitude<\/em>\u201d, Ugo Rubeo (ed.),&nbsp;<em>Bad Cities: Literature and Violence<\/em>, Milan, Mimesis, pp. 189-204.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> \u201cContro-passato prossimo: Genesi di una storia alternativa in&nbsp;<em>La nostra guerra<\/em>&nbsp;di Enrico Brizzi\u201d,&nbsp;<em>Narrativa<\/em>n. 43, pp. 197-206.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> \u201cFacing Defeat: Louis Falstein&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>Face of a Hero<\/em>\u201d, Owen, David and Maria Cristina Pividori (eds.),&nbsp;<em>The Spectre of Deafeat in Post-War British and American Literature: Experience, Memory, and Post-Memory<\/em>, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 139-150.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> \u201cDrawing (and Researching) the Great War: Tardi Is Not Getting Out Of His Trench\u201d,&nbsp;<em>Status Quaestionis<\/em>, #20. &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/rosa.uniroma1.it\/rosa03\/status_quaestionis\/article\/view\/17516\">https:\/\/rosa.uniroma1.it\/rosa03\/status_quaestionis\/article\/view\/17516<\/a>&gt;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>2021<\/strong> \u201cThe Myth of the Great War: Hugo Pratt\u2019s World War I Graphic Novel and Stories\u201d, Paul Ferstl (ed.),&nbsp;<em>Dialogues Between Media: The Many Languages of Comparative Literature<\/em>, De Gruyter, pp. 59-82.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please also consult the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/webs.uab.cat\/beyond-postmemory\/publications\/\">Publications section<\/a>&nbsp;in this website for additional recent publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Personal Website<\/strong>:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7623-9873\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0005-9728-8251<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>scardanelli15@gmail.com Independant Scholar Brief summary of research interests: Umberto Rossi is an independent scholar, teacher and literary critic. 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