Marco Codebò

MARCO CODEBÒ is married to Giulietta and father of Agnese and Carlotta.

He is Professor of French and Italian at Long Island University in Brookville, New York. He also taught at UCLA, the University of Houston, and the Colorado College. He studied literature and philosophy at the University of Genoa and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he earned his PhD in Comparative Literature. His scholarship focuses on nineteenth and twentieth-century fiction in France, Italy, and Latin America, as well as on the relation between the modern novel, archives and historiography.

He is the author of "Narrating from the Archive: Novels, Records, and Bureaucrats in the Modern Age" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2010) as well as of articles on Manzoni, Celati, and Boccaccio; Tozzi, Eloy Martínez, and Euclides da Cunha. His latest article on the literary representation of the Italian Resistance will be published by “Italian Quarterly” in fall 2020.

His second book, “Novel of Displacement: Fiction in the Age of Global Capital” (Ohio State UP), came out in September 2020.

He also authored a collection of short stories, "École normale supérieure" (2006) and three novels: "Via dei Serragli" (2003), "Appuntamento" (2009), and "La bomba e la Gina" (2011).