Morello, Stefano
Title(s):
PhD Candidate
Email:
veritas44@gmail.com
Institutional Affiliations: CUNY Graduate Center
Research Interests: 20th Century American Literature, American Studies, Children's & Young Adult Literature, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, Media Studies, Popular Culture
Stefano Morello is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in English. He holds an M.A. in American Literature from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and an M.A. in American Studies from the University of Torino. His academic interests include American Studies, pop culture, poetics, queer theory and transnational screen cultures. Oh, and punk-rock. Among other projects, he is currently committed to exploring the heterotopic space of the East-Bay punk scene, its modes of resistance and (dis-)association, and the odd clashes between its politics and aesthetics.
Stefano serves as co-chair of the Graduate Forum of the Italian Association for American Studies (AISNA) and founding editor of its journal, JAm It! (Journal of American Studies in Italy). He is also co-curating an exhibition at the Municipal Archives of the City of New York – based on his yet unpublished M.A. dissertation – on a neighborhood on the Lower East Side subject to a process of slum-making during the Progressive Era.
He wishes he spent more time writing poetry and hanging out at the Poetry Project.