Emanuela Piga Bruni
Professor in Literary Critic and Comparative Literature
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Dr Emanuela Piga Bruni is Full Professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the Universitas Mercatorum in Rome. She completed her doctoral studies at the University of Bologna, having pursued her academic training at the same institution and at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle–Paris 3. She has held Visiting Fellowship positions at the following institutions: Royal Holloway, University of London (UK), Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Cambridge (UK), and the University of Paris Nanterre.
Her major works include the monographs: La macchina fragile. L’inconscio artificiale fra letteratura, cinema e televisione (Carocci, 2023; currently being translated for Peter Lang: The Fragile Machine. The Artificial Unconscious in Literature, Film and Television, in press), La lotta e il negativo. Sul romanzo storico contemporaneo (Mimesis, 2018; tr. The Struggle and the Negative. On the Contemporary Historical Novel) and Romanzo e serie TV. Critica sintomatica dei finali (Pacini, 2018; tr. Novel and TV Series. A Symptomatic Critique of Endings).
She has also co-edited several special issues of academic journals, including Marcel Proust e la significazione (tr. Marcel Proust and Signification) («E|C», 2021), Viaggio e Sconfinamenti (tr. Journey and Trespassing) («Scritture migranti», 2020), L’immaginario politico. Impegno, resistenza, ideologia (tr. The Political Imaginary. Commitment, Resistance, Ideology) («Between», 2015), Tecnologia, immaginazione, forme del narrare (Technology, Imagination, Narrative Forms) («Between», 2014).
Piga Bruni is a member of the editorial boards of the academic journals «Between» and «Scritture migranti».
Since July 2024, she has been qualified as Full Professor for the COMP-01/A - Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature concurring area.
