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Publikationen

Monographien und Sammlungen (Herausgeber)

• La Maschera dell’Antieroe. Evoluzione della Mitologia e della Filosofia del Supereroe dalla Dark Age a Oggi. Mimesis Edizioni 2022
• Favaro, Martin (eds.), Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023

Kapitel

• Marvels or Freaks, Monsters or Heroes? In: McLaughlin (ed.), The Philosophies of Stan Lee. Essays on a Comics Mastermind. McFarland, 2025/26.
• Rat-Man: An Italian Superhero Parody, In: Piatti-Farnell, Wilson (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies, Routledge, 2025. 
• The Dionysian Clown: Analysing the Fool through Nietzsche’s Philosophy. In: Cappuccio, Dunn, and Eberl (eds.) Joker and Philosophy: Why So Serious?The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series, Wiley-Blackwell, 2024.
• Apocalissi Zombie e Disastri Climatici. The Last of Us come Critica della Società Occidentale e Avvertimento sulla Catastrofe Ambientale. In: Ambrogio, Toniolo (eds.), Natura in Pixel. Un libro sui Videogiochi per la Beneficenza Ambientale. Independent, 2023.
• Arkham's Sirens. Analyzing the Roles of the Body and the Transcendental Subject in Arkham's Villainesses and Antiheroines. In: Favaro, Martin (eds.), Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
• Flesh, Scars, and Clay. The Role of Pain and Bodies in the Creation of Identity and Meaning In: Favaro, Martin (eds.), Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
• Introduction. Not Exactly a Cowardly Lot: Gotham´s Villains In: Favaro, Martin (eds.), Batman’s Villains and Villainesses: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Arkham’s Souls, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
• Dylan Dog’s Nightmares: The Unheimlich Experience of the Doppelgänger in Dylan Dog’s World. In: Darowski, Pagnoni Berns (eds.), Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books: Red Ink in the Gutter. Routledge 2022.
• The Horror Vs. L’Indagatore dell’Incubo. Dionysian, Irrational and Absurd in Dylan Dog’s Narrative, In: Bhattacharjee, Pagnoni Berns (eds.), Horror and Philosophy Essays on Their Intersection in Film, Television and Literature. McFarland Press, 2022.

Artikel

• Devil in Heaven: The Role of Matt Murdock's Parents and Friends in the Creation of Daredevil's Identity, Heroism Science: An Interdisciplinary Journal 10(2), 1-34. University of Richmond's Scholarship Repository. DOI: 10.26736/hs.2025.02.02 
• Corpi, Macchine e Zombies. La rappresentazione di Körper e Leib nei futuri di Horizon e The Last of Us. In: Alison, Carbone, De Feo, Fattori A., Fattori L., Scalera, Maria Sicca (eds.) Futuri. La Rivista italiana di Futures Studies. n. 19, “Corpi performativi”, Italian Institute for the Future Press, 05.2023.
• Antiheroes in the Rubble. In: Imagining the Impossible: International Journal for the Fantastic in Contemporary Media, Vol. 1. University of Southern Denmark - Department for the Study of Culture, Royal Danish Library, 2022.
• Stan Lee Revolution: Marvel’s Superheroes as an Anticipation of the Dark Age Antiheroes. In: #42 Rivista Diálogo, 12.2019. UnilaSalle Editora, Universidade La Salle, Canoas, Brasil.
• Did you get the joke yet? In: Casper, Ingold, Lungershausen, Schwertfeger (eds.), Non-Narrative Comics. CLOSURE. Kieler e-Journal für Comicforschung #8. 12.2021, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Kunsthistorisches Institut.

Reden, Konferenzen und Events

• Radiointerview für „La Rivista“, RSI, Rete Due. Interviewer: Mattia Pelli, 04.2025
• Radiointerview für „Alphaville“, RSI, Rete Due. Interviewerin: Cristina Artoni, 03.2025.
• Radiointerview für „La Rivista“, RSI, Rete Due. Interviewer: Mattia Pelli, 01.2025.
• Keynote Speaker, „La maschera dell’antieroe“, FLA (Festival di Libri e Altrecose), CLAP Museum, Pescara, 11.2024.
• Keynote Speaker, Filmforum zu „V for Vendetta“ (2005), Il Grande Faggio, Chieti, 11.2024.
• Keynote Speaker, „Il fumetto d'autore tra graphic novel e supereroi“, FLA (Festival di Libri e Altrecose), CLAP Museum, Pescara, 11.2024.
• Keynote Speaker, Präsentation des La Maschera dell´Antieroe, WOW, Museo del Fumetto, Milano, 01.2023.
• Referent und Diskussionsleiter Sognielettrici | Electricdreams International Film Festival, Universitá IULM, Mailand, 10.2023
• Referent und Diskussionsleiter, The Superhero Project: 6th Global Meeting, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 09.2022.
• Referent und Diskussionsleiter, The Superhero Project: 5th Global Meeting, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 09.2021.
• DwuTakt: Festiwal Kultury Popularnej(Popular Culture Festival), Asocjację Komiksu Toruń, Fundacji Kult Kultury, 09.2021.
• Utopia & Dystopia: Conference on the Fantastic in Media Entertainment. Danish IRFD research network “Imagining the Impossible”, Institute for the Study of Culture (SDU). 05.2021.
• The Superhero Project: 4rd Global Meeting, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 09.2020.
• International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference 2020. The Resonance of Comics: Social Impact and Possible Futures. London College of Communication. 07.2020.
• Nordic Summer University Winter Symposium: „Comics and Feminism”, Södertörn University, Stockholm. 02.2020.
• The Superhero Project: 3rd Global Meeting, Universität Duisbug-Essen, 09.2019.
• 10th Annual International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference. Manchester Metropolitan University, 06.2019.
• Batman in Popular Culture Conference. Bowling Green State University, Ohio USA. 04.2019.
• Nordic Summer University Winter Symposium: Materialities of Comics. Comics and Society: Research, Art, and Cultural Politics. Aarhus University, 02.2019.
• I Congreso Internacional de Cultura Popular,Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de Sevilla, 12.2018.