New Faculty Publication

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Italian Mattia Acetoso whose new monograph, Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry: Eros, Tragedy, and National Identity, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. As the publisher explains, "Twentieth-century Italian poetry is haunted by countless ghosts and shadows from opera. Echoes of Opera in Modern Italian Poetry reveals their presence and sheds light on their role in shaping that great poetic tradition. This is the first work in English to analyze the influence of opera on modern Italian poetry, uncovering a fundamental but neglected relationship between the two art forms."