Education
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University in 2011
Dr. Salvatore Pappalardo, PhD
Professor, Assistant Chair
Areas of Expertise
World Literature
19th and 20th Century Literature
Biography
Dr. Pappalardo holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Translation Studies from the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) in Trieste, Italy. He is the author of the monograph Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870鈥�1945 (Bloomsbury Academic 2021). He teaches courses that range from the ancient Mediterranean to nineteenth and twentieth century literature, European modernism, Comparative and World literature.
Scholarship: (selected presentations)
鈥淩obert Musil and Bernard Bolzano: Writing the Non-National鈥� Annual German Studies Association Conference. Washington, DC. 1-4 October 2015.
鈥淎 Spectral Script: Phoenicians in Greco-Roman Mythography鈥� Lecture Series. Program of Ancient Mediterranean Studies. Towson University, 4 March 2015.
鈥淰a l脿 che sei proprio coccola:鈥� Habsburg Trieste after the Great War in Fulvio Tomizza鈥檚 Franziska.鈥� The Myth of the Great War 鈥� World War I: Myth and Reality. University of Pennsylvania, 24-25 April 2014.
鈥淗absburg Hybrid: Italo-Slavic Myths of Origin in Joseph Roth鈥檚 Radetzkymarsch.鈥�
Annual American Comparative Literature Association Meeting. New York University, 20-23 March 2014.
鈥淔aithful Forgeries: Translation and Enlightened Priesthood in Leonardo Sciascia's Il Consiglio d'Egitto.鈥� The Monk, the Priest, the Nun. University of Pennsylvania, 22-23 March 2013.
鈥淣ostalgic of the Future: Robert Musil and Landespatriotismus in The Man without Qualities.鈥� Modern Language Association. Boston, 3-6 January 2013.
鈥淭he Multiplication of Languages and Farces: Samuel Beckett鈥檚 Endgames.鈥� Modernist Studies Association. University at Buffalo, SUNY, 6-9 October 2011.
Invited Speaker, 鈥淭he Rape of Irish Europa: Guglielmo Ferrero and Finnegans Wake.鈥� 15th Annual Trieste Joyce School. University of Trieste, Italy, 26 June-2 July 2011.
Research:
European Modernism (Austrian, Italian, Anglo-Irish), Sicily and Mediterranean Studies, Comparative Literature, World Literature
Publications (selected)
Grants and Awards (selected) Honors College Professor of the Year, Towson University, 2019 American Council of Learned Societies, Project Development Grant, 2018鈥�2019 Max Kade Prize for the Best Article of the Year in The German Quarterly for 2016 (awarded 2017) Memberships and Affiliations: Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association German Studies Association American Association for Italian Studies Services Ancient Mediterranean Studies Committee World War I Lecture Series Organizing CommitteeModernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870鈥�1945. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
鈥淪ciascia scrittore arabo.鈥� 鈥淯n arabo che ha letto Montesquieu:鈥� Sciascia e il mediterraneo sud-orientale. Edited by Giovanni Capecchi. Firenze: Leo Olschki (forthcoming 2021).
鈥淰a l脿 che sei proprio coccola:鈥� Habsburg Trieste after the Great War in Fulvio Tomizza鈥檚 Franziska.鈥� Mito e realt脿 della Grande Guerra. Ed. Marina Della Putta Johnston. Venice: Marsilio Editore, 2020. 59鈥�70.
鈥淪oldat und Redakteur: Robert Musil und der italienische Irredentismus in der Tiroler Soldaten-Zeitung.鈥� Oberleutnant Robert Musil als Redakteur der Tiroler Soldatenzeitung. Eds. Mariaelisa Dimino, Elmar Locher and Massimo Salgaro. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2019. 209鈥�226.鈥淔rom Ibn 岣md墨s to Giuf脿: Leonardo Sciascia and the Writing of a Siculo-Arab Literary History.鈥� Italian Culture 36.1 (2018): 32鈥�47.
鈥淗absburg Loyalties as Intellectual Affinities: Non-National Allegiances in Robert Musil and Bernard Bolzano.鈥� Robert Musil鈥檚 Intellectual Affinities. Musiliana, Band 17. Eds. Todd Cesaratto and Brett Martz. Bern, Oxford, New York: Peter Lang, 2017. 149鈥�175.
鈥淭he Betrayal of the Urbs Fidelissima: Habsburg Trieste in Robert Musil鈥檚 Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften.鈥� The German Quarterly 89.2 (Spring 2016): 169鈥�185.
鈥淲aking Europa: Joyce, Ferrero, and the Metamorphosis of Irish History.鈥� Journal of Modern Literature 34.2 (Winter 2011): 154鈥�177.
鈥淥ne Last Austrian Cigarette: Italo Svevo and Habsburg Trieste.鈥� Prospero: Rivista di Letterature Straniere, Comparatistica e Studi Culturali 16 (2011): 67鈥�88.