Plenary Session and Discussion with Massimo Fusillo
"Melodrama as Excess of Passions: Negative Empathy, Catharsis, Sublime"
Description
Massimo Fusillo is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of L’Aquila (Italy), where he is Coordinator of the PhD Program on Literatures Arts Media: The Transcodification. He is President of the Italian Association of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature; chair of the Research Committee on Literatures Arts Media (CLAM) of the International Association of Comparative Literature (ICLA); and member of the Academia Europaea. Among his recent publications: Empatia negativa (with Stefano Ercolino), Bompiani, 2022; Mapping the Baroque Mediascape and its Legacy in Contemporary Culture, in The Palgrave Handbook of Intermediality (with M. Petricola), 2023; The Fetish. Literature, cinema, visuality, Bloomsbury, 2017.
This session will be recorded, a video recording will be posted below for registered delegates shortly following the session.