Overview
Roberto Dainotto is Professor of Literature, Italian and International Comparative Studies at Duke University. He has been Professeur invitè at the Université Paris Ouest, and Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies in South Africa. His main research and teaching interests hinge on the concepts of place and space as narrative, rhetorical, and geopolitical organizational categories. His publications include Place in Literature: Regions, Cultures, Communities (Cornell UP, 2000); Europe (in Theory) (Duke UP, 2007), winner of the 2010 Shannon Prize in Contemporary European Studies; and Mafia: A Cultural History (Reaktion Books, 2015). He has also edited Racconti Americani del ‘900 (Einaudi scuola, 1999), a monographic issue of Italian Culture on Giambattista Vico (2017), and co-edited with Fredric Jameson Gramsci in the World (Duke UP, 2020).
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Literature
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2020 - Present
Literature,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies in the Program in Literature
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2023 - Present
Literature,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of the International Comparative Studies Program
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2018 - Present
International Comparative Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Professor of Romance Studies
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2020 - Present
Romance Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
The Economy of Form: An Introduction
Journal Article Novel · August 1, 2022 Full text CitePoints of View: Gramsci and “the Question of the Novel”
Journal Article Italian Culture · January 1, 2022 Perhaps the most essential device for the organization of the novel form is narrative point of view. Mikhail Bakhtin, in “Discourse in the Novel” (1934–1935), maintains in fact that “every language in the novel is a point of view, a socio-ideological conce ... Full text CiteMax Weber in Southern Europe: The Problem with Work
Chapter · January 1, 2022 Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
New York University ·
1995
Ph.D.
New York University ·
1990
M.A.