Emanuele Stefanori is Assistant Teaching Professor of Italian and Italian Language Program Coordinator in the School of International Letters and Cultures at Arizona State University. Before joining ASU, he taught Italian language and culture, cinema, and cultural studies at UNC Chapel Hill, William & Mary, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
In addition to second language acquisition and pedagogy, his research interests include 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, crime fiction, film studies, disability studies, and science and technology studies. His research examines the agency of technology in Italian crime fiction and, more broadly, non-human elements in Italian literature, film, and media. His recent article, “When the Clock Took the Floor: Technology as Non-Human Actor in Augusto De Angelis’ Detective Novel Il banchiere assassinato (1935),” was published in the volume The Human and the Machine in Literature and Culture.
His current research focuses primarily on Mediterranean crime fiction and Italian women crime writers. He is also developing a project on the agency of time and speed in narratives of sport and migration centered on teenage protagonists, including Giuseppe Catozzella’s Non dirmi che hai paura (2014), Alì Ehsani’s Stanotte guardiamo le stelle (2016), and Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman’s film Californie (2021).