Andrea Brondino

Developed across Universities in the UK (Warwick, Reading, Manchester) and Italy (Turin), my research analyses contemporary Italian culture, with particular attention to its transnational dimension, representations of political violence, and the intersection of fiction and historiography. My PhD, awarded with no corrections at Warwick in 2023, examined the overlap of fiction and non-fiction in a specific corpus of Italian authors. I have since expanded its scope into a monograph: Narrative and History in the Works of Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, and Wu Ming: Untangling the Strands (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2026). Its completion was supported by the competitive post-doctoral MHRA Research Scholarship (£14,000). I have published over twenty peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, and reviews. My most impactful publications focus on irony (Forum for Modern Language Studies 2023) and collective pronouns in contemporary Italian and North American literature (The Italianist 2024). I have co-edited issues of CoSMo (‘Total Modernism: 1922-2022’), and Contemporanea (‘Luca Rastello, writer’, 2022), securing contributions from prestigious writers Alessandro Baricco and Dario Voltolini. I have organised panels and seminars, presented nineteen papers, as well as been invited as a guest contributor to cultural blogs, radio podcasts, public lectures, MA and PhD seminars, in the UK and overseas.

Umberto Eco, Carlo Ginzburg, Wu Ming, Italian 1970s, irony, comparative literature, North American literature, postmodernism, new realism, literary theory, reception theory, Apocalypse​, historical novel, Luca Rastello.

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Member of the Society of Italian Studies (SIS) and European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL)

a.y. 2025/2026: main convenor of ITAL10500 Reading Italy, ITAL21002 Global Italian Narratives, and ITAL31001 Narratives of Conflict After 1968.

Co-convenor of ITAL10300 Italian Cultural Studies, ITAL51060 Italian Language, and MA course LALC7011 Theories and Methods in Modern Languages I.