Giorgio Mariani
giorgio.mariani@uniroma1.it
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Studi Europei, Americani e Interculturali
Università "Sapienza" di Roma
Italy
Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)
Giorgio Mariani, is Professor of American Literature at the ‘Sapienza’ University of Rome, where he coordinates the Doctoral Program in English-language literatures. Immediate former President of the International American Studies Association, he is now Editor-in-Chief of the Review of International American Studies. He has also served as a member of the Executive Board of the Italian Association of North American Studies (AISNA). Mariani is one of the co-editors of the Italian journal of American Studies Ácoma, as well as a member of the editorial boards of Fictions. His work has concentrated on nineteenth-century American writers (Emerson, Melville, Stephen Crane, and others); on contemporary American Indian literature; on literary theory; on the literary and cinematic representation of war. He has published, edited, and co-edited several volumes, including Spectacular Narratives. Representations of Class and War in the American 1890s (1992), Post-tribal Epics. The Native American Novel between Tradition and Modernity (1996) and Le parole e le armi (Words and Arms), a collection of essays on US discourses of war and violence from the Puritans to the first Gulf War. His essays and reviews have appeared in many journals, including American Literary History, Studies in American Fiction, Fictions, RIAS, RSA Journal, Stephen Crane Studies. Mariani has recently published his new book Waging War on War. Peacefighting in American Literature (University of Illinois Press).