Underwood International College

• Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
• Ph. D. Comparative Literature, University of L'Aquila, 2013
• M. A. Comparative Literature, University of L'Aquila, 2009
• B. A. Comparative Literature, University of L'Aquila, 2007

Profile

Stefano Ercolino completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the University of L’Aquila (Italy) in 2013. Following a one-year postdoc at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature of the Freie Universität Berlin (Germany) as a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow, he has been appointed Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yonsei University's Underwood International College. A former Visiting Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), Visiting Scholar at the University of Sydney (Australia) and Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University (USA), he is the author of the monographs The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947 and The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” to Roberto Bolaño’s “2666.”

Education

Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of L’Aquila, 2013
M.A. Comparative Literature, University of L’Aquila, 2009
B.A. Comparative Literature, University of L’Aquila, 2007

Academic Positions
DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow, Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), 2013-14
Research Fellow, Department of Humanities, University of L’Aquila (Italy), 2012-13

Visiting Positions
Fulbright Visiting Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford University (USA), 2012
Visiting Scholar, Department of English, University of Sydney (Australia), 2010
Visiting Researcher, Department of Comparative Literature and Department of English, University of California, Berkeley (USA), 2008

Courses and Current Research Areas

Courses Taught at Yonsei

“World Literature: English and American Literature—Enigmatic Psyches,” Spring 2017
“World Literature: Classical Literature—Greek Tragedy and the Tragic,” Spring 2017
“World Literature: English and American Literature—Modernism,” Fall 2016
“Freshmen Writing Intensive Seminar: Orientalism,” Fall 2106
“World Literature: English and American Literature—The Anglophone Modernist Novel,” Spring 2016
“Freshmen Writing Intensive Seminar: Decadent Exoticism,” Spring 2016
“World Literature: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century European Literature—The Libertine, the Monster,” Fall 2015
“Freshmen Writing Intensive Seminar: Decadence,” Fall 2015
“World Literature: English and American Literature—Readings in Genre,” Spring 2015
“Freshmen Writing Intensive Seminar: The Aesthete,” Spring 2015
“World Literature: Modern European Literature—The European Novel, 1809-1890,” Fall 2014
“Freshmen Writing Intensive Seminar: The Maximalist Novel,” Fall 2014

Areas of Specialization
History and Theory of the Novel, Philosophy and Literature, Interdisciplinary Models for the Analysis of Literature

Areas of Competence
Comparative Literature, Literary History and Theory, Visual Culture

Selected Publications

Monographs

The Novel-Essay, 1884-1947. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. (Studies in European Culture and History; Paperback edition 2016)

The Maximalist Novel: From Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow” to Roberto Bolaño’s “2666.” Trans. Albert Sbragia. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. (Paperback edition 2015)

Il romanzo massimalista: Da “L’arcobaleno della gravità” di Thomas Pynchon a “2666” di Roberto Bolaño. Milan: Bompiani, 2015.

Il romanzo-saggio, 1884-1947. Trans. Lorenzo Marchese. Milan: Bompiani, 2017.

Edited Volumes and Special Issues

Imaginary Films in Literature. Leiden-Boston: Brill | Rodopi, 2016. (with Massimo Fusillo, Mirko Lino, and Luca Zenobi).

“Narration and Reflection.” Compar(a)ison 33.1-2 (2010 [2015]). (with Christy Wampole)

“Censorship and Self-Censorship.” Between 5.9 (2015). http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/issue/current/showToc. (with Antonio Bibbò and Mirko Lino)

Journal Articles

“Forme et vérité.” Argument: Politique, Société, Histoire. “La révolution tranquille et nous / Prose d’idées, prose de fiction.” Eds. Marie-Andrée Lamontagne and Raphaël Arteau-McNeil. 18.2 (2016): 39-50.

“Philosophical Mimesis: Between Narration and Reflection.” Compar(a)ison. “Narration and Reflection.” Eds. Stefano Ercolino and Christy Wampole. 33.1-2 (2010 [2015]): 5-18.

“The Encyclopedic Mode in Modernist and Postmodernist Fiction.” Strumenti critici 29.1 (2014): 55-74.

“The Maximalist Novel.” Comparative Literature 64.3 (2012): 241-56.

“Per un’estetica dell’irrappresentabile: Le immagini della Shoah in Austerlitz di W. G. Sebald.” Contemporanea 9 (2011): 93-107.

“Il mito di Narciso nel postmoderno.” Strumenti critici 25.2 (2010): 247-64.

Book Chapters

“'End of the end of the line’: The Broken Temporality of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.” Keeping Time:
Essays on American Literature. Ed. Cindy Weinstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018 (forthcoming).

“The Killing Vision: David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.” Imaginary Films in Literature. Eds. Stefano Ercolino, Massimo Fusillo, Mirko Lino, and Luca Zenobi. Leiden-Boston: Brill | Rodopi, 2016. 18-34. 

“Ritorno alla forma.” Introduzione alla letteratura. Eds. Franco Brioschi, Costanzo Di Girolamo, and Massimo Fusillo. 2nd Edition. Rome: Carocci, 2013. 260-69.

“La dimensione etica.” Introduzione alla letteratura. Eds. Franco Brioschi, Costanzo Di Girolamo, and Massimo Fusillo. 2nd Edition. Rome: Carocci, 2013. 269-73.