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Massimo Riva
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Interview
Biography
Born in Vercelli in 1953, Massimo
Riva studied philosophy in Naples and Florence, graduating with a thesis on Loewith
and Nietzsche, and in 1986 was awarded a doctorate in Italian and comparative literature
with a thesis on melancholy (which became Saturno e le Grazie. Malinconici e
ipocondriaci nella letteratura italiana del Settecento, published by Sellerio in
1992), from Rutgers University (USA).
He is interested in narrative and the connection between narrative forms and new
technologies. As well as his basic interest in how our post-humanist culture is
increasingly based on new forms of communicating (and investigating) through narrative, he
is also concerned with the late mediaeval period as a time of "transition"
towards a new millennium.
He has taught in several universities including Sydney (Australia), Colorado,
Northwestern (Chicago) and Massachusetts. Since 1991 he has taught at Brown University,
where he is in charge of the Web project, the Decameron Web (with Michael Papio)
(http://www.brown.edu/Research/Decameron) and Progetto Pico (with Pier Cesare Bori of the
University of Bologna). |
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