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).
Office Hours
W 4:00-5:30pm. To schedule an appointment: <https://calendly.com/dainotto/officehours>.
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
Education, Training & Certifications
New York University ·
1995
Ph.D.
New York University ·
1990
M.A.