Sergio Parussa

Sergio Parussa is Associate Professor of Italian Studies. He is a graduate of the University of Turin and received his Ph.D. in Italian Studies from Brown University with a specialization in twentieth-century Italian and French literature.

He is the author of Writing as Freedom, Writing as Testimony: Four Writers and Judaism in Twentieth Century Italy, (New York:Syracuse Univerity Press, 2008) and L'eros omnipotente: erotismo e impegno nell'opera di Pier Paolo Pasolini e Jean Genet (Turin: Tirerenia Stampatori, 2003).

His work also includes the translation of Simonetta Perkins by L.P. Hartley (Rome: Nottetempo, 2008) and L'orso maggiore by Ginerva Bompiani (The Great Bear. New York: Italica Press, November 2000).

He teaches courses on contemporary Italian literature, as well as courses on the Italian Renaissance.

Profile last updated: 7/08