BOARD MEMBERS
Davide Carnevale
Sapienza University of Rome
Davide Carnevale graduated in 2016 in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", where in 2021 he obtained his Ph.D. in Italian Studies. His current fields of interest are the research of the structural and thematic connections that link the fantastic genre to postmodern literature and the study of the practices of transposition of the narrative modalities of the fantastic into different forms of language, interest culminated with the publication in 2017 of the articles «“A Ghastly and Inappropriate Splendour”: the Fantastic in Dino Battaglia’s Comic Adaptation» and «“In My Restless Dreams, I See That Town”: A Narratological Perspective on the Fantastic City of Silent Hill». He has also written for Nicola Pesce Editore the introductions of the comic books La mummia by Dino Battaglia and Il Collezionista by Sergio Toppi.. He is a member of the GEF, Grupo de Estudios sobre lo Fantástico of the University of Barcelona.
“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.” (Neil Gaiman)
“Except the reading of a good comic book”.
C-S Publications
«“Il sonno della coscienza genera mostri”: violenza e trauma della guerra in Monsters di Barry Windsor-Smith», Novecento Transnazionale. Letterature, Arti E Culture, 7 (2023), pp. 9–19.
«Sergio Toppi, collezionista e mitografo», in Sergio Toppi, Il Collezionista, Nicola Pesce editore, Eboli 2019, pp. 5-18.
«A ghastly and inappropriate splendour»: The Fantastic in Dino Battaglias Comic Adaptation», Brumal, Revista de investigación sobre lo fantástico, V, 1 (2017), pp. 127-48.
«Lo "spettrale e ingiustificato splendore" delle riscritture fumettistiche di Battaglia», in Dino Battaglia, La mummia, Nicola Pesce editore, Eboli 2017, pp. 5-13.
Into C-S
"Un Fascio di Bombe: La Strategia della Tensione e la nascita del Graphic Journalism in Italia". Introduction of the course “La Strategia delle Tensione a Fumetti” 21/04/2023 – Ascoli Piceno (Italy)
«Il sonno della coscienza genera mostri: Società americana e trauma della guerra in Monsters di Barry Windsor-Smith". Webinar "Esperienze complesse della memoria: immagini, testi, luoghi, oggetti" 28/10/2022 – 28/10/2022 – University of Genoa – “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)
"«Ils sont fous ces européens»: Real and imaginary Communities in Goscinny and Uderzo’s Astérix Comic-Book Series". IX Congress of the ESCL/SELC "Imagining Inclusive Communities in European Culture" 05/09/2022 – 09/09/2022 – “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)
"«A ghastly and inappropriate splendour»: The Fantastic in Dino Battaglias Comic Adaptation"». XXIII Congress of the ICLA "Re–Imaginnig Literatures of The World: Global and Local, Mainstreams and Margins" 24/07/2022 – 29/07/2022 – Tbilisi – Georgia
"Ripensare Lovecraft: prospettive ideologiche e morali in Providence di Alan Moore e Lovecraft Country di Matt Ruff". V Congresso internazionale "Visiones de lo fantástico: Fantastico e ideologia" 29/06/2022 – 01/07/2022 – University of Turin (Italy)
"Rethinking Lovecraft: Ethical and Moral perspectives in Alan Moore’s Providence and Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country". Summer School CIVIS "Ethics and morality in modern and contemporary media and transmedia storytelling" 17/06/2022 – 29/06/2022 – “Sapienza” University of Rome (Italy)
"«A ghastly and inappropriate splendour»: The Fantastic in Dino Battaglias Comic Adaptation". First Conference of the ICLA Research Committee on Literatures/Arts/Media (CLAM) 30/06/2021 – 02/07/2021 – University of L’Aquila (Italy)
"Cosmogonie e anti-cosmogonie perturbanti: i miti lovecraftiani nella rilettura fumettistica di Alan Moore". International ESCL conference "Narrations of Origins in World Cultures and the Arts" 10/05/2021 – 13/05/2021 – University of Turin (Italy)
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
