Plenary Session and Discussion with Massimo Fusillo
"Melodrama as Excess of Passions: Negative Empathy, Catharsis, Sublime"
Speaker
Massimo Fusillo, President of the Italian Association of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, University of L’Aquila, Italy
Moderator
Asun López-Varela Azcárate, Assoc. Prof., English Department, Complutense University Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Description
Massimo Fusillo is Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (Italy). 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.
