Shadows
Reflections, Projections, Ghosts, and Other Disobedient Shadows
University of Siena
Simona Micali studied Humanities and Italian Studies at the University of Pisa and at the Scuola Normale Superiore; then took a PhD in Italian Literature at the University "Ca' Foscari" in Venice. From 2001 to 2004 she was Visiting Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna; in 2004-2005 she was Visiting Professor of Italian Studies at Brown University (USA). Presently she is Assistant Professor (Ricercatore) of Italian Literature at the University of Siena (Arezzo).
From 1997 to 2004 she was Treasurer of the "Associazione per gli Studi di Teoria e Storia Comparata della Letteratura" (Italian branch of ICLA); since 2001 she ia a member of the Executive Committee of Synapsis. Since 2003 she is also on the Editorial Board of «Contemporanea. Rivista di studi sulla letteratura e sulla comunicazione».
She has published three books ("L'innamoramento", Laterza 2001; "Miti e riti del moderno", Le Monnier 2002; "Ascesa e declino dell'Uomo di lusso. Il romanzo dell'intellettuale nella Nuova Italia e i suoi modelli europei", Le Monnier 2008) and several essays on modern and postmodern literature; she also edited the proceedings of Synapsis 2001 ("Cospirazioni, trame", Le Monnier 2003).