Luca Mazzocchi

Luca Mazzocchi is a research fellow at the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies of the University of Bologna, working within a project dedicated to a digital commentary of L'Adalgisa by Carlo Emilio Gadda (PRIN 2022). Before taking his current position in Bologna, he completed a PhD at the University of Oxford with a thesis on L'Adalgisa («Un abisso di bellezza e di scandolo»: A study of Carlo Emilio Gadda's «L'Adalgisa», 2023), and was MHRA Research Associate & Tutor in Italian at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests lie in contemporary Italian literature, with a close focus on Gadda and on other narrators of the twentieth century (Italo Calvino, Natalia Ginzburg, Elsa Morante, Primo Levi).