Dr Florian Mussgnug


Lecturer in Italian Literature

email: f.mussgnug@ucl.ac.uk
phone: +44 20 7679 3027
internal-phone: 33027

Office hours: Monday, 4.00pm-5.00pm; Tuesday, 11.00am-12.00noon.

Research areas: twentieth-century Italian literature, high modernist experimental prose, philosophy of language and literary theory, comparative literature.

Publications include:

  • The Eloquence of Ghosts: Giorgio Manganelli and the Afterlife of the Avant-Garde, Oxford, Peter Lang, 2010.
  • Postmodern Impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture (edited with Pierpaolo Antonello), Oxford, Peter Lang, 2009.
  • “Resisting Paranoia: Poesis and Politics in Aracoeli” in The Power of Disturbance: Elsa Morante's Aracoeli, eds Sara Fortuna and Manuele Gragnolati, Oxford, Legenda, 2009, pp. 30-41.
  • Folly. Special Issue of Comparative Critical Studies, year 5, issues 2 and 3, 2008 (edited with Lucia Boldrini), Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2008.
  • “Writing Like Music: Luciano Berio, Umberto Eco and the New Avant-Garde”, Comparative Critical Studies, vol. 5, 2008, pp. 81-97
  • “Esercizio, exemplum, testimonianza: i travestimenti del racconto in Giorgio Manganelli”, Il Verri, vol. 30, 2006, pp. 67-81; reprinted in: Bollettino '900, vols 1-2, 2005.
  • “Traces of Analytic Philosophy. Meaning, reference and style in Kant and the Platypus” in Illuminating Eco: on the boundaries of interpretation, eds. Rochelle Sibley and Charlotte Ross, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2004, pp. 139-155.
  • Lutero. Il padre della Riforma protestante, Firenze, Giunti, 2003.

Further information and a full list of publications are available on IRIS

Convener of the MA Comparative Literature. Member of the Executive Committee of the British Comparative Literature Association (BCLA). Member of the Réseau Européen d'Études Littéraires Comparées / European Network of Comparative Literature (REELC/ENCL). Editor of Contemporanea. Rivista di studi sulla letteratura e sulla comunicazione and course tutor for Synapsis. European Summer School in Comparative Studies.