Giovanni Fumagalli

fumagallig@uchicago.edu
Cohort Year: 2024
Subject Area: Italian Studies
Research Interests: Contemporary Italian literature, industrial literature, utopian literature and cinema, sociology, cultural studies

Giovanni holds a B.A. in Literature from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (2021). His thesis, supervised by Professor Carla Maria Monti, involved the critical edition of an unpublished Latin epistle preserved in manuscript H 221 inf. at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana.


He received an M.A. in Modern Philology from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan (2023), under the supervision of Professor Giuseppe Lupo. His final dissertation, based on a cinematographic inspiration, is an interpretation of the relationship between the «souls» of the worker and the employer in contemporary Italian literature and society, starting from the 1968 movement.


Giovanni's interests focus on the anthropological transformations that occurred in the 20th and 21st centuries, the study of industrial and post-industrial civilization and the relationship between technology and literature, with a particular interest in hypothetical future societies envisioned in utopian narrative and cinema.