The Directory of Research and Researchers at Brown: Massimo Riva

Prof. Riva's current research focuses on the application of digital technology to the study of literature. Among his award winning online projects: The Decameron Web, and the Virtual Humanities Lab. In collaboration with the Rockefeller library's Center for digital initiatives, he is currently at work on a new project centered on the Garibaldi panorama, a unique survival of a form of public art that was prevalent throughout the nineteenth century.

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Massimo Riva is Professor of Italian Studies and Modern Culture and Media. He has a Laurea in Philosophy from the University of Florence (1981) and a Ph.D. in Italian Literature from Rutgers University (1986). His publications include:

Saturno e le Grazie. Ipocondriaci e malinconici nella cultura italiana del Settecento, (Palermo, Sellerio, 1992)

Melanconie del Moderno. Disagio della nazionalità e critica dell'incivilimento nella letteratura dell'Ottocento, (Ravenna, Longo, 2001)

Italian Tales. An Anthology of Contemporary Italian Fiction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004).

He is also the author of numerous essays on topics ranging from Medieval and early Modern to Contemporary Literature, including several articles (in both Italian and English) on the application of computing to the studying and teaching of Literature.

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MASSIMO RIVA, Laurea, Universita di Firenze (1981); Ph.D., Rutgers University (1986)
Professor of Italian Studies
Italian Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3984
Phone 2: +1 401 863 1561
E-mail: Massimo_Riva@Brown.EDU

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