Riccardo Gasperina Geroni

Riccardo Gasperina Geroni is Coordinator of the Master's Degree Programme in Italian Studies and European Literary Cultures and teaches Contemporary Italian Literature and Twentieth-Century Italian Prose. His research focuses on the intersections between twentieth-century Italian literature, anthropology, psychoanalysis, and philosophy. He has published articles in leading national and international journals such as Cuadernos de Filología Italiana, Italian Studies, Esperienze letterarie, and Arabeschi.

His first monograph, Il custode della soglia. Il sacro e le forme nell'opera di Carlo Levi (Mimesis, 2018), winner of the 21st Carlo Levi Prize, inaugurated a line of research that led him to edit the second edition of Quaderno a cancelli(Einaudi, 2020) and the new edition of Cristo si è fermato a Eboli (Einaudi, 2025). He has also published Cesare Pavese controcorrente (Quodlibet, 2020) and the narrative reportage Bologna di carta (Il Palindromo, 2022). His most recent book, Ricominciare. Classici della letteratura italiana 1939-1962 (Einaudi, 2025), offers a critical reappraisal of postwar Italian prose.