Nicola Giansiracusa is a PhD student in the International PhD Programme in Comparative Studies (PhD-COMP). He holds a BA in humanities from the University of Pavia and an MA in Italian studies from the University of Bologna. He is working on a dissertation entitled Imagining Worlds in Literature and Science: Works by Paul Valéry, Virginia Woolf, and Carlo Emilio Gadda, which focuses on the relations between literature and physics (namely atomic theories, relativity, and quantum theory) in the three authors, with the help of the framework of Possible Worlds Theory.
Areas of research
Comparative literature (mainly Italian, English and French)
Literature and Science
Twentieth-century fiction
Interarts Studies
Selected publications
“Solving the Mystery of ‘Angelica Farfalla’: Primo Levi and the Origin of Life.” Complit: Journal of European Literature, Arts and Society 1, no. 3 (2022): 123-36.
“Tra simmetria relativistica e caos quantistico. Immaginazione in Valéry tra scienza e letteratura.” il verri 79 (June 2022): 83-94
