Guido Mattia Gallerani

A literary critic working on the history of criticism, literary theory and comparative literature, with particular attention to the relationship between texts, institutions and cultural imagination.

Research interests

History of Literary Criticism • Sociology of Literature • Literary Institutions • Cultural Imagination

Featured book

• Roland Barthes. Dalla vita al testo, "Frecce" (Roma: Carocci, 2024)

This intellectual biography traces Roland Barthes’ critical trajectory from his early writings to the late lectures at the Collège de France, showing how biography itself became a form of literary theory. 

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Current project

• The Imagination of Flight

How did aviation reshape the cultural imagination of modernity? This project studies the literary and cultural consequences of aviation across the twentieth century, combining literary criticism, cultural history and media studies.

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From I popoli scomparsi

...the bounty on their head is but a scrap of paper

and their adventure the plot for a book.

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Contact details

Email: guido[dot]gallerani[at]unibo[dot]it

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