Authors Gian Maria Annovi (winner of the Ennio Flaiano International Prize for Italian Studies) and Christopher Dominguez will discuss the work of Italian world-renowned writer and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. Organized by the IIC and the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles.
Gian Maria Annovi is Associate Professor of Italian, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is the author of Altri corpi (Gedit, 2008), a volume on corporeality and the experimental poetry of the 1960s, and Pier Paolo Pasolini: Performing Authorship (Columbia UP, 2017), winner of the International Flaiano Prize for Italian Studies. He is the editor of Antonio Porta’s Piercing the Page; Selected Poems 1958–1989 (2012), of a collection of essays on Pasolini and youth, Fratello selvaggio (2013), and of a trilingual edition of Amelia Rosselli’s Impromptu (2014). He is also the co-editor of the collection of essays Anna Maria Ortese: Celestial Geographies, published by University of Toronto Press in 2015.
Christopher Dominguez is a Mexican essayist and historian. He has gained international recognition as a literary critic. He is a formal member of El Colegio Nacional, an institution founded in 1943 that seeks to reunite distinguished scientists and the Mexican cultural milieu.
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