Prof Emilia Di Rocco
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, ‘Sapienza’ University, Rome, Italy
Emilia Di Rocco teaches Comparative Literature at the Department of European, American and Interdisciplinary Studies, at Sapienza Università di Roma. In 2021 she was Fulbright Chair Distinguished Lecturer at Northwestern University (IL). She is the President of the European Society of Comparative Literature. Her latest publications include: Raccontare il ritorno. Temi e trame della letteratura (2017) and two edited volumes, Mondi di Fede e di invenzione. Intersezioni tra religioni e letteratura (2018 together with Elena Spandri) and Astonishment. Essays on Wonder for Piero Boitani (2019). Her current research interests include literature and theology, literature and the Bible, the rewritings of ancient myth in medieval and modern literature.