Professor Florian Mussgnug

Academic position: Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies

Department: School of European Languages, Culture and Society

URL: /european-languages-culture/people/florian-mussgnug

Biography:

Florian Mussgnug is Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian Studies at University College London. He has held visiting and honorary positions at the Universities of Siena, Oxford, Roma Tre and Cagliari, Sapienza University Rome and the British School at Rome. He is co-investigator for the five-year AHRC-funded research project "Interdisciplinary Italy 1900-2020: Interart/Intermedia" and Academic Director of the 香港六合彩中特网 Cities Partnerships Programme in Rome. His research interests focus on modern and contemporary literature in Italian, English and German, speculative fiction, posthumanism, and narratives of catastrophe and global existential risk. His publications include Human Reproduction and Parental Responsibility: Theories, Narratives, Ethics (2021, with Simona Corso and Virginia Sanchini); Rethinking the Animal-Human Relation (2019, with Stefano Bellin and Kevin Inston); The Good Place: Comparative Perspectives on Utopia (2014, with Matthew Reza); The Eloquence of Ghosts (2010); Postmodern Impegno: Ethics and Commitment in Contemporary Italian Culture (2009, with Pierpaolo Antonello).

Research Projects:

F. Mussgnug, 鈥淪pecies at War? The Animal and the Anthropocene鈥�, Paragraph, Volume 42, Issue 1, 2019, pp. 116-130.
F. Mussgnug and C. Dell鈥橝versano, 鈥淧arenthood, Climate Justice and the Ethics of Care: Notes Towards a Queer Analysis鈥�, Phenomenology and Mind, Volume 19, 2021, pp. 81-101.
F. Mussgnug, 鈥淓cological Mourning: From Elegy to Expanded Grief鈥�, in Simona Corso, Florian Mussgnug, and Jennifer Rushworth (eds), Dwelling on Grief: Narratives of Mourning Across Time and Forms (Cambridge: Legenda, 2021).
F. Mussgnug, 鈥淧lanetary Figurations: Intensive Genre in World Literature鈥�. Modern Languages Open, 1 (22), 2018, pp. 1-12.
F. Mussgnug, 鈥淎pocalypse鈥�, in Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, ed. by Ivan Callus, Stefan Herbrechter, Stefan Herbrechter, Manuela Rossini,Chris Muller, Megen de-Bruin Mole and Marija Grech (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022).
F. Mussgnug, 鈥淣aturalizing Apocalypse: Last Men and Other Animals鈥�. Comparative Critical Studies, Volume 9 Issue 3, 2012, pp. 333-347.
F. Mussgnug, 鈥淎nimal鈥� in Jennifer Burns and Derek Duncan (eds), Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021).

Teaching:

LITC0035 Global Literature and the Anthropocene
LITC0013 Twenty First Century Fiction
CMII0080 Apocalypse Literature: From Romanticism to the Millennium