Alberto Iozzia Joining BU Romance Studies
We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Alberto Iozzia to our Italian section in the fall 2023 semester!
Iozzia received his PhD in 2018 in Italian from Rutgers University after having earned his MA in Literature and Performing Arts in 2010 and his BA in Music and Performing Arts in 2008, both from the Università di Siena. He is currently teaching Italian, Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Iozzia is Interested in 19th and 21st Italian literature and film, language pedagogy, Italian theater with a focus on Sicilian comedy and the Italian teatro di narrazione.
Iozzia’s book project, Last Time the World Ended: Making Sense of Modern Italy through Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, examines the recent history of Italy by revisiting the literary and cinematic works of speculative fiction that have anticipated, represented, or followed the cultural and social transformations capable of shaping the nation. The book retraces some of the defining moments of modern Italy’s political and intellectual life and analyzes the works of fiction that made sense of them through the metaphor of the end of the world.