Alessandro Giammei

Alessandro Giammei (he/him lui/tu) is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Yale. As a cultural philologist, he specializes in modern and contemporary literature and art, queering their fantasies of genealogical roots in renaissance, chivalric, and classical traditions. He is the author of several books, including Ariosto in the Machine Age (University of Toronto Press 2024), which won both the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the MLA and the AAIS Book Prize; Gioventù degli antenati: Il Rinascimento è uno zombie (Einaudi 2024); and Nell’officina del nonsense di Toti Scialoja (edizioni del verri 2014), which won the Edinburgh Gadda Prize. He curated and/or translated editions of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s writings on painting, Dario Villa’s and Giulia Niccolai’s poems, Lytton Strachey’s letters to Virginia Woolf, Arthur Conan Doyle’s treatise on spirit photography, and Michela Murgia’s posthumous books. His public-facing work on masculinity includes the children’s book Cronache e leggende di ragazzi strani (il battello a vapore 2024) and the essays Cose da maschi (Einaudi 2023) and Parlare fra maschi (Einaudi 2025). He is completing a monograph on Shakespeare’s ghost in the philology, translatology, and spiritism of fascist Italy for Cambridge University Press.

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