{"id":153906,"date":"2025-05-12T14:26:03","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/marco-petrelli-178646-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:50:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:50:45","slug":"marco-petrelli-178646-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/marco-petrelli-178646-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Marco Petrelli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professore Associato &#8211; Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica | Email: marco.petrelli@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"178646","unipi-persone-nome":"Marco","unipi-persone-cognome":"Petrelli","unipi-persone-email":"marco.petrelli@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"Marco Petrelli is Associate Professor of Anglo-American Literatures in the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics at the University of Pisa. He holds a Ph.D. in English-Language Literatures from Sapienza University of Rome and has previously taught at the Universities of Catania, Parma, Turin, and Bologna.<br \/>\r\nIn 2021 he obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN \u2013 Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor, and in 2025 as Full Professor.<br \/>\r\nHe has served as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana\u2013Champaign (2015) and as a Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University (2022) and the City University of New York (2025).<br \/>\r\nHe has published widely in Italian, American, and international journals and edited collections on authors including Cormac McCarthy, William Faulkner, Stephen King, Sara Taylor, Jesmyn Ward, Toni Morrison, H.P. Lovecraft, Alan Moore, Natasha Trethewey, Pauline E. Hopkins, Ida B. Wells, Richard Wright, and Ralph Ellison. His books include Paradiso in nero. Spazio e mito nella narrativa di Cormac McCarthy (2020); Nick Cave. Preghiere di fuoco e ballate assassine (2021); and the co-authored volume Cormac McCarthy: saggi a margine del canone (2020).<br \/>\r\nHe is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of JAm It!\u2014Journal of American Studies in Italy, and serves on the editorial board of From the European South.<br \/>\r\nHis research interests include African American literature, the American Gothic, the literatures and cultures of the U.S. South, Postmodernism, Geocriticism, and Graphic Narratives. He is also a literary critic for il manifesto. He is currently at work on a book about spectrality, the blues, and African American literature.","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"https:\/\/unipiit-my.sharepoint.com\/:b:\/g\/personal\/a055692_unipi_it\/EfrSHMR3QXZMjKBUqGvqrW4Bxj2Vm_DftiIoUjcLEMEEuQ?e=KlC6ao","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"Nel corso del secondo semestre, il ricevimento potrebbe svolgersi esclusivamente online tramite Teams. Le studentesse e gli studenti interessati sono pregati di contattare preventivamente il docente via email.\n\nDuring the second semester, office hours may be held exclusively online via Teams. Students are kindly requested to contact the instructor in advance by email.","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"Via Santa Maria 67, Stanza 22","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"Mercoled\u00ec, 10:00-12:00","unipi-persone-telefono":"","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"","unipi-persone-cariche":"","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=055692","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=055692&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"Letterature Anglo-americane ANGL-01\/B","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Associato","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp214922","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"<ul class=\"pubblicazioni-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1345907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La popular music statunitense<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco; Morello, Stefano; Carosso, Andrea - 2026 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1349207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Black and Blue: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and the Sound of the African American Essay<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1336252\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2025 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1336249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Il romanzo gotico<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2025 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1334869\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Blood at the Root: Ida B. Wells\u2019s and Pauline E. Hopkins\u2019s Gothic Souths<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1289410\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Ghost Dollhouse of Dixie<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1289407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Hallelujah to the HoodWitches: note sulla poesia di Faylita Hicks<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2024 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1247907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThere are better ways and places to spend your time\u201d: historical stillness, quantum narration, and Black spacetime[s] in Jason Mott\u2019s Hell of a Book<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1202357\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cYou Can Really Make the Story Your Own\u201d: Taking Back Candyman<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1197329\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#039;I need the story to go&#039;: Sing, Unburied, Sing, Afropessimism and Black Narratives of Redemption<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2023 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1154722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">La versione di Nnedi Okorafor: Black Panther tra Afrofuturism e Africanfuturism<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1154719\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&quot;&#039;The Haunter[s] of the Dark&#039;: gotico, terrore e razza in Lovecraft Country&quot;<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2022 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1166510\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Theory of Southern Time and Space: Memory, Place, and Identity in Natasha Trethewey&#039;s Native Guard<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Petrelli, Marco - 2021 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1154721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Cave. 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