Marco Menicacci

Dr. Marco Menicacci teaches Italian at the University of St. Gallen and is research fellow in Romance Philology at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. He graduated in Italian Literature at the University of Florence with a thesis published by Franco Cesati Editore (Luzi. Il demone filosofico, 2007). In 2010, he earned a trinational Doctorate in Italian Studies (Universities of Florence, Bonn, Paris IV) with a monograph on Mario Luzi e la poesia tedesca. Novalis, Hölderlin, Rilke (Le Lettere, 2014).

As Alexander-von-Humboldt postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Bonn, he worked on French and comparative literatures and edited the proceedings of an interdisciplinary conference on Italian “pensiero tragico”: Das Tragische. Dichten als Denken, Winter Verlag, 2016. He then worked at universities of Stuttgart, Stony Brook, and Konstanz (2015-2022), where he also led the Italian theatre company Teatro Italiano Konstanz (6 productions).

Dr. Menicacci’s main areas of expertise are 19^th-20^th-century Italian and comparative Literature and translation (Italian-German-French), from a historical-critical as well as practical perspective. He is currently editing Federigo Tozzi’s letters to his wife for the “Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Federigo Tozzi” (Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura).

Since 2022, Dr. Menicacci has been teaching the Public Lecture of Italian at the University of St. Gallen.