Education
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers University in 2011
Dr. Salvatore Pappalardo, PhD
Professor, Assistant Chair
Areas of Expertise
World Literature
19th and 20th Century Literature
Biography
Dr. Pappalardo holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University and a B.A. in Translation Studies from the Advanced School of Modern Languages for Interpreters and Translators (SSLMIT) in Trieste, Italy. He is the author of the monograph Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870–1945 (Bloomsbury Academic 2021). He teaches courses that range from the ancient Mediterranean to nineteenth and twentieth century literature, European modernism, Comparative and World literature.
Research
European Modernism, Sicily and Mediterranean Studies, Comparative Literature, World Literature
Publications
Books:
Modernism in Trieste: The Habsburg Mediterranean and the Literary Invention of Europe, 1870–1945. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, Paperback 2022.
Literature at the Crossroads: Sicily and the Arab-Italian Mediterranean (in progress)
Articles and Essays:
“A Mediterranean of Remnants: Jewish and Arabo-Islamic Sicily in Vincenzo Consolo.” I.S. MED – Interdisciplinary Studies on the Mediterranean (2025): forthcoming.
“‘In the South of the Monarchy Lies our Strength:’ Istria and Dalmatia in the Habsburg Imperial Propaganda of the Vienna Adria-Ausstellung in 1913.” Historični Seminar 15: forthcoming 2024.
“The Emergence of Austro-Italian Literary Studies.” Co-authored with Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski. The Journal of Austrian Studies 56.2 (Summer 2023): 63–73.
“A Pedagogy of Confluence: Teaching Sciascia’s Mediterranean and American Myths in the United States.” Todomodo: Rivista Internazionale di Studi Sciasciani / A Journal of Sciascia Studies 13 (2023): 85–98.
“Dockings on Danubio: Magris, Mitteleuropa, and the Hinternational Future of Europe.” The European Legacy: Towards New Paradigms 27.7– 8 (2022): 689–707.
“Sciascia scrittore arabo.” “Un arabo che ha letto Montesquieu:” Sciascia e il mediterraneo sud-orientale. Edited by Giovanni Capecchi and Francesca Maria Corrao. Firenze: Leo Olschki Editore, 2021. 3–19.
“Trieste 1912: Habsburg Italianness in Scipio Slataper and Angelo Vivante.” Austro-Italian Encounters. Edited by Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski. Special Issue of L’Anello che non tiene: Journal of Modern Italian Literature 32.2 (2020) [Spring 2022]: 207–231.
“Soldat und Redakteur: Robert Musil und der italienische Irredentismus in der Tiroler Soldaten-Zeitung.” Oberleutnant Robert Musil als Redakteur der Tiroler Soldatenzeitung. Eds. Mariaelisa Dimino, Elmar Locher and Massimo Salgaro. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2019. 209–226.
“From Ibn Ḥamdīs to Giufà: Leonardo Sciascia and the Writing of a Siculo-Arab Literary History.” Italian Culture 36.1 (2018): 32–47.
“The Betrayal of the Urbs Fidelissima: Habsburg Trieste in Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften.” The German Quarterly 89.2 (Spring 2016): 169–185.
Grants and Awards (selected): Faculty Development and Research Committee Award, Towson University, 2023 Research Grant, Comitato Nazionale per la Celebrazione del Centenario Sciasciano (declined), 2022 Towson Presidential Award for Scholarship, Research, or Creative Activity, 2021 Honors College Professor of the Year, Towson University, 2019American Council of Learned Societies, Project Development Grant, 2018–2019 Max Kade Prize for the Best Article of the Year in The German Quarterly, 2017 Excellence in Teaching Award, National Society of Leadership and Success, Sigma Alpha Pi 2016–2017 Memberships and Affiliations: Modern Language Association Modernist Studies Association German Studies Association American Association for Italian Studies Services Ancient Mediterranean Studies Committee World War I Lecture Series Organizing Committee