Location: PIAZZA TORRICELLI, 2, 56126 PISA
Email: marco.petrelli@unipi.it
Profile
Unit: Dipartimento di Filologia, Letteratura e Linguistica
Scientific-disciplinary sector: Letterature Anglo-americane ANGL-01/B
In 2021 he obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN – Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) as Associate Professor, and in 2025 as Full Professor.
He has served as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (2015) and as a Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University (2022) and the City University of New York (2025).
He 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).
He is co-founder and co-editor-in-chief of JAm It!—Journal of American Studies in Italy, and serves on the editorial board of From the European South.
His 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.
Teaching
Teaching activity
Teaching responsibility for modules/courses
- Lingue e letterature anglo-americane a (cod. 1128L) per Laurea Magistrale in Lingue, letterature e filologie euro - americane
Insegnamenti condivisi/mutuati:- Lingue e letterature anglo-americane b (cod. 1301L) - Laurea Magistrale in Linguistica e traduzione
- Letterature angloamericane (cod. 1493L) per Laurea in Lingue, letterature e comunicazione interculturale
Student consultation hours
Mode of office hours:
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.
During the second semester, office hours may be held exclusively online via Teams. Students are kindly requested to contact the instructor in advance by email.
Location: Via Santa Maria 67, Stanza 22
Time: Mercoledì, 10:00-12:00
Research
Research interests
African American literature, Southern studies, the American gothic, Critical Race Theory, graphic narratives, Geocriticism.
Publications
- La popular music statunitense (Petrelli, Marco; Morello, Stefano; Carosso, Andrea - 2026 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- Black and Blue: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and the Sound of the African American Essay (Petrelli, Marco - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (Petrelli, Marco - 2025 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- Il romanzo gotico (Petrelli, Marco - 2025 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- Blood at the Root: Ida B. Wells’s and Pauline E. Hopkins’s Gothic Souths (Petrelli, Marco - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- The Ghost Dollhouse of Dixie (Petrelli, Marco - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- #Hallelujah to the HoodWitches: note sulla poesia di Faylita Hicks (Petrelli, Marco - 2024 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- “There are better ways and places to spend your time”: historical stillness, quantum narration, and Black spacetime[s] in Jason Mott’s Hell of a Book (Petrelli, Marco - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- “You Can Really Make the Story Your Own”: Taking Back Candyman (Petrelli, Marco - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- 'I need the story to go': Sing, Unburied, Sing, Afropessimism and Black Narratives of Redemption (Petrelli, Marco - 2023 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- La versione di Nnedi Okorafor: Black Panther tra Afrofuturism e Africanfuturism (Petrelli, Marco - 2022 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- "'The Haunter[s] of the Dark': gotico, terrore e razza in Lovecraft Country" (Petrelli, Marco - 2022 - 2.1 Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio))
- A Theory of Southern Time and Space: Memory, Place, and Identity in Natasha Trethewey's Native Guard (Petrelli, Marco - 2021 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Nick Cave. Preghiere di fuoco e ballate assassine (Petrelli, Marco - 2021 - 3.5 Edizione critica)
- Paradiso in nero: spazio e mito nella narrativa di Cormac McCarthy (Petrelli, Marco - 2020 - 3.1 Monografia o trattato scientifico)