BOARD MEMBERS
Nicola Paladin
“G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara
Nicola Paladin teaches North American literature at “G. D’Annunzio” University of Chieti-Pescara. He holds a Ph.D. in “Literatures in English” at “Sapienza” University of Rome and was visiting scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and at Northeastern University. His research interests include Early and Classic American literature, War Literature and Comics studies. He published a monograph on the literary representations of the American Revolution in the Early Republic and edited an Italian critical edition of A Narrative on Col. Ethan Allen’s Captivity.
“There is no one quite like Will Eisner"
"There never has been, and on my more pessimistic days I doubt there ever will be”. (Alan Moore)
C-S Publications
“Le ‘architetture possibili’ di Will Eisner. Cronotopi urbani da Central City a Dropsie Avenue”, in Between 15, 2018, pp. 1-19.
“The Spectacular Nature of World War I in American Comics”. In Alice Favaro e Irene Incarico (Eds.), Eurofumetto e globalizzazione. Studi su graphic novel e linguaggi dei comics. La Spezia: Cut-Up Publishing, 2018, pp. 133-146.
“Stars and Strips: la guerra nell’opera di Will Eisner”, in Nicola Turi (Ed.), Raccontare la Guerra. I conflitti bellici e la modernità. Firenze: Firenze University Press, 2017, pp. 379-403.
“La Rivoluzione Americana in Italia: dagli EsseGesse a Hugo Pratt”, in Nicola Spagnolli, Claudio Gallo e Giuseppe Bonomi (Eds.), Il fumetto: fonte e interprete della storia. Verona: Betelgeuse Editore, 2016, pp. 135-147.
“La Grande Guerra di Joe Sacco: Epica della Distruzione o Distruzione dell’Epica?”, in Studi Interculturali 3, 2015, pp. 97-123.
Into C-S
2023
Seminar: “Il fumetto contemporaneo nella cultura degli Stati Uniti”, Liceo Statale “Isabella Gonzaga”, Chieti, March 8-16-21-27.
Seminar: “Guerra e fumetto. Le rappresentazioni a fumetti delle guerre americane del Novecento”, Liceo Scientifico “Corradino D’Ascanio”, Montesilvano, January 16-19-23-24.
2022
“La D è muta… ma si scrive: la grammatica del fumetto in Django Unchained”, in “C’era una volta (uno scrittore) a Hollywood: la scrittura di/e Tarantino”, Università di Verona, December 6.
Seminar: “Fumetto e guerra. Visualità, lingue e linguaggi degli Stati Uniti nella seconda metà del Novecento”, Liceo Scientifico “Corradino D’Ascanio” di Montesilvano, June 21 and July 4.
Lecture: “Reading Hangover: sintomi e postumi della Guerra fredda nel fumetto americano, 1961-1991”. Liceo Artistico “Osvaldo Licini”, Ascoli Piceno, April 30.
2021
Co-organizer of the conference “Visual Depictions of the American West”, Università Ca’ Foscari Venice, September 13-17.
“Framing WWII in US War Comics”, in “Rewriting War and Peace in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Contemporary British and American Literature”, Universidad Autónoma del Barcelona, September 8-9.
2019
“Forme e contenuti dell’America di Hugo Pratt”, in “Gli orizzonti aperti di Hugo Pratt”, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, June 18.
2018
“A Future-Oriented Past: Contemporary Contaminations in Garth Ennis and Kieron Gillen’s WWII Comics”, in “Past (Im)perfect Continuous. Transcultural Articulations of the Postmemory of WWII”, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, June 26-28.
Lecture: “20th Century Wars and American Graphic Novels”, at the University of Bologna, November 15.
2017
“Le architetture possibili di Will Eisner. Cronotopi urbani da Central City a Dropsie Avenue”, in “Spaced Out, gli spazi tra le nuvole”, Università di Cagliari, October 26-28.
“The Good, the Gook and the Grunt: The Representation of the Enemy in Vietnam War Comics”, in “ACLA International Conference”, University of Utrecht, July 5-9.
2016
“Will Eisner’s Spirit’s Participation in the Second World War”, “21st Congress of the ICLA”, Universität Wien, July 21-27.
2015
“Unreal Cities: paradigmi urbani nell'opera di Frank Miller”, in “The Hybrid Context, Illustration, Literature, comics”, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, November 30 and December 1-2.
2014
“The spectacular Nature of World War I in the American Comics Production”, “Eurofumetto e Globalizzazione”, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, December 3-4.
2013
“La Rivoluzione Americana in Italia: dagli EsseGesse a Hugo Pratt”, in “Il fumetto al bivio: tra metastoricità e nuovi media”, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, December 5.
ICLA Research Commitee on Comics Studies and Graphic Narrative (2024)
