Pasquale Verdicchio

Pasquale Verdicchio (Naples, 1954) is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, where he taught courses in Literature, Cinema, Cultural Studies, and Environmental Literatures in the Department of Literature. He has published poetry, essays, and translations of Italian writers, including Giorgio Caproni, Antonio Gramsci, Vivian Lamarque, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Andrea Zanzotto. His scholarly works include Looters, Photographers, and Thieves: Aspects of Italian Photographic Culture in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (FDUniversity Press, 2011), Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild (Lexington, 2016), and Encounters with the Real in Contemporary Italian Literature and Cinema, co-edited with Loredana Di Martino (Cambridge, 2017). In 2015, he was awarded the Muir Environmental Fellowship by Muir College.