Achille CastaldoAssistant ProfessorItalian
Education
PhD Romance Studies, Duke University 2019
Biography
Achille Castaldo (PhD Romance Studies, Duke University 2019). 19th-21st Century Italian Literature. Aesthetics. Film Studies. Mediterranean Studies. Associated faculty in Film and Media Studies
My research investigates the relationships between ideology, literature, and visual arts, focusing in particular on the impact of social conflicts on narrative forms. My current book project addresses the work of Anna Maria Ortese and Roberto Rossellini in the context of post-war Naples, using a methodology rooted in Marxism, Phenomenology, and Semiotics. Works in progress also include a study on Rossellini's films for television and an analysis of Nanni Balestrini's narrative production.
Recent publications
2021 “Salvezza privata e crisi del cinema politico: Fosca e l’adattamento cinematografico di Ettore Scola,” La Questione Romantica - Rivista interdisciplinare di studi romantici, Vol.13, n.1-2, 2021, pp. 91-112.
2021 “Neither Utopia nor Juvenile Transgression: Retracing the Link between the ’77 Movement, Autonomy, and Literature” (co-authored), Italian studies, 76:1, 2021, 96-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2020.1851516
2020 “The novel and the myth of the epic: Balestrini, Lukács, and the cathartic experience,” Forum Italicum: A Journal of Italian Studies. 2020; 54(3): 785-805. https://doi.org/10.1177/0014585820925476
2020 “La comunità oscena: Stile adolescenziale e politica del movimento nel primo Tondelli,” in De Dante a Camilleri. Estudios de literatura y cultura italiana. eds. S. Longhitano, F. Ibarra, Ciudad de México, UNAM y Cátedra Extraordinaria Italo Calvino, 2020, pp. 197 - 212. http://ru.atheneadigital.filos.unam.mx/jspui/handle/FFYL_UNAM/2527
2019 “Ideological figuration in Rohmer’s first two Moral Tales: ‘voice of memory’, clinamen of the image, and colonial fantasies,” Studies in French Cinema. 19:2, 2019, 85-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/14715880.2018.1511031
2019 “The ‘Essence of things’ and their decomposition: The use of montage in Dino Terra’s Metamorfosi,” in Literature as Document. Series: Textxet: studies in comparative literature, 90, 2019. Brill-Rodopi, Amsterdam, 121-132. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004384255_008
