Dr. Marco Menicacciteaches Italian at the University of St. Gallen. 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 onFrench 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 (US), FAU Erlangen 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 19th-20th-century Italian and comparative Literature as well as translation (Italian-German-French, from a historical-critical as well as practical perspective). He is currently working on Primo Levi, and 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.