Valerio Massimo De Angelis
Valerio Massimo De Angelis teaches American Literature at the University of Macerata. He is the author of two books on Hawthorne (La prima lettera: Miti dell’origine in The Scarlet Letter di Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rome, Lozzi & Rossi, 2001; and Nathaniel Hawthorne: Il romanzo e la storia, Rome, Bulzoni, 2004). He is also co-editor of two collection of bio-critical essays on contemporary American authors, of the proceedings of an international conference on Philip K. Dick, and of the proceedings of the 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for North-American Studies. He has published articles and essays on historical fiction, romance, abolitionism, feminism, modernism, postmodernism, comics, transatlantic Italian-American relationships, and on various other authors, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Ambrose Bierce, Stephen Crane, Henry James, Langston Hughes, Thomas Wolfe, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Henry Roth, Leslie Fiedler, E.L. Doctorow, Stephen King, Leslie Marmon Silko, Margaret Atwood, and Rudy Wiebe. He is Director of RSA Journal, the review of the Italian Association for North American Studies (AISNA), and Coordinator of the Center for Italian American Studies at the University of Macerata.