Associate Professor of Italian
Graduate Program Director
Lyons Hall 307C
Telephone: 617-552-3238鈥
Email: mattia.acetoso@bc.edu
ORCID
Modern Italian poetry music and literature; the literature of exile; contemporary Italian cinema; magical realism and the fantastic
Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry: Eros, Tragedy, and National Identity. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2020.
鈥淩enato Poggioli Beyond Exile.鈥 In Exile and Creativity. New York: CPL Editions, 2020.
鈥淢isteriose vicende di un tempo diverso: 尝鈥橭谤辞濒辞驳颈辞 tra viaggio, sogno e magia鈥 Forum Italicum 50.2 (2016): 484-493.
鈥淒ove poesia e verit脿 coincidono.鈥 Introduction to 尝鈥橭谤辞濒辞驳颈辞 by Carlo Levi. Turin: Einaudi, 2015: v-xvi.
鈥淐ome un fulgore azzurro: Umberto Saba and the Verdian Sound of Italy.鈥 California Italian Studies 4.1 (2013): 1-21.
鈥淩enato Poggioli鈥檚 Intellectual Project and the Psychology of Exile.鈥 In Renato Poggioli. An Intellectual Biography. Eds. Lino Pertile, Massimo Riva, and Roberto Ludovico. Florence: Olschki, 2012: 125-143.
鈥淎 Thin Horizon: Antonio Tabucchi鈥檚 Existential Fantastic.鈥 Through the Looking Glass: Spaces of the Fantastic as Reflections on the Present. Northeast Modern Language Association. Boston University (Boston, MA) - March 2020
鈥淭he Baritone鈥檚 Dream: Montale, Manrico, and Other Prisoners (of Poetry).鈥 Annual Homecoming Lecture Series. Yale University (New Haven CT) - October 2019
鈥淩enato Poggioli Beyond the Exile.鈥 Lecture series 鈥淓silio e creativit脿.鈥 Italian Cultural Institution of New York (New York, NY) - December 2018
鈥淔rom Bayreuth to Fiume: D鈥橝nnunzio鈥檚 Visions of an Italian Tragic Theater.鈥 Histories and Border Crossings. Italian Sonorities and Acoustic Communities. Listening to Soundscapes of Italianit脿. Calandra Italian American Institute Annual Conference (New York, NY) - April 2017
鈥淎 Deafening Silence: Eugenio Montale鈥檚 Poetry, Between Music and Words.鈥 Intertwining Muses? A Comparative Approach to Literature and Music. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). March 2016 聽
鈥沦补产补鈥檚 Ernesto as a Coming-of-Age Story Told Through Music.鈥 Coming of Age in Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature. Northeast Modern Language Association. University of Connecticut (Hartford, CT). March 2016
鈥淔antasmi dell鈥檕pera nel Novecento italiano.鈥 Public presentation for the 鈥淐ircolo Italiano di Boston.鈥 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA). April 2015
鈥淪trange Mercy: Montale鈥檚 Storm and other Tragic Dreams.鈥 Campus Visit during the application process for the tenure-track position of Assistant Professor of Italian at 涩里番下载 (Chestnut Hill, MA).聽 January 2015
鈥淩enato Poggioli鈥檚 (Unending) Exile and the Problem of Return.鈥 A Forgotten Generation: The Exile of Italian Intellectuals to the United States During the Interwar Years. Italian American Studies Association. University of Toronto (Toronto, ON, Canada). October 2014
鈥Hands of Time Over the City: Reflections on Italo Calvino and the Temporality of the Urban Experience.鈥 Capitals of Culture and the Immeasurable Wealth of Passing Time. American Comparative Literature Association. New York University (New York, NY). April 2014.
鈥.鈥 Verdi 200th. A Celebration of Giuseppe Verdi鈥檚 Bicentenary (1813-2013). 涩里番下载, MA. October 2013.
鈥淒aughter of Love: Umberto Saba, Giuseppe Verdi, and National Identity.鈥 Concerts of Words: Italian Literature and Music. American Association of Italian Studies. Eugene, OR. April 2013.
鈥淔rozen Little Hand: Opera as Alternative to the Avant-Garde.鈥 Crises of Mind, Collapsing of Forms: Exploring Audiovisual Art and the Literature of the Avant-Garde, 1920-1940. American Comparative Literature Association. Providence, RI. April 2012.
鈥I bambini ci guardano ancora: The Portrayal of Youth in Garrone鈥檚 Gomorra.鈥 American Association of Italian Studies. Pittsburgh, PA. April 2011.
鈥淭he Double Sided Portrait of Power in Il divo.鈥 Italian Cinema in the Present Tense. American Association of Italian Studies. New York City, NY. May 2009.
鈥淩enato Poggioli and the Timid steps of Russian Poetry in Italy.鈥 Slavic-Italian Colloquium. Yale University. April 2009.
Francesco Cavalli. Orion. English translation of L鈥檕rione (1653). Libretto by Francesco Melosio. Eds. Davide Daolmi and Nicola Usula. Kassel: B盲renreiter, 2015: XXXIX-LXXXVI.
Joseph Luzzi. Il romanticismo italiano e l鈥橢uropa. Fantasia e realt脿 nell鈥檌mmaginario occidentale. Rome: Carocci, 2012. Italian translation of: Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy. New Haven: YUP, 2008.