Summary CV

University profile

Andrea Cannas graduated in Modern Literature in 1997, with a grade of 110 cum laude, with a thesis on Salvatore Satta entitled History and Historiographers in the Work of Salvatore Satta. In 1998, he was awarded a scholarship for a PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Cagliari. His research project focused on the myth of Orpheus in the second half of the 20th century, concentrating in particular on the rewritings of the myth by Calvino, Pavese, Savinio, Beckett, Rushdie, and Okri. He obtained his PhD in June 2002. He is a permanent researcher at the Department of Literature, Languages, and Cultural Heritage. He has taught medieval and modern Italian literature and literature teaching, and currently teaches Italian literature at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cagliari for the degree courses in Literature and Cultural Heritage.

He has published books and essays on Dante, Bruno, Galilei, Collodi, Pavese, Calvino, Deledda, Satta, and Atzeni, and has explored the presence of classical myths in Leopardi's Operette morali. He also studies singer-songwriters, particularly the work of Fabrizio De André; short forms of narrative in Italian literature; and the relationship and intersemiotic connections between literature and graphic novels.

Of particular note are the following volumes: Lo sguardo di Orfeo. Studio sulle varianti del mito (The Gaze of Orpheus: A Study of Variations on the Myth), Bulzoni, Rome 2004; Finzioni cosmiche di Giacomo Leopardi (Cosmic Fictions by Giacomo Leopardi), Aipsa Cagliari 2004; with P. Argiolas, G. V. Distefano, and M. Guglielmi, Le Grandi parodie Disney ovvero I Classici fra le Nuvole (The Great Disney Parodies, or Classics in the Clouds), Pesce, Rome 2013; with G. V. Distefano, Percorsi dell’immaginazione e della conoscenza nelle Operette morali di Giacomo Leopardi (Paths of Imagination and Knowledge in Giacomo Leopardi's Moral Operettas), Nerosubianco, Cuneo 2016; La mia distanza fra le stelle. Utopia e distopia nel canzoniere di Fabrizio De André (My Distance Among the Stars. Utopia and Dystopia in Fabrizio De André's Songbook), Unicapress, Cagliari 2022.

He is a member of the editorial board of Portales magazine and co-founder and board member of the international journal of intercultural studies Medea. He has participated as a speaker at international conferences at the universities of Seville, Aix-en-Provence, Pécs, Wroclaw, and Craiova, and has organized international conferences in Cagliari (In/Out. Trajectories of Captivity and Freedom, 2019; Immaginare mondi: l'alieno e l'altrove, 2017; Spaced out: lo spazio nel fumetto, 2017; XENOI. Immagine e parola tra razzismi antichi e moderni, 2010; Sergio Atzeni, un cantastorie in blues, 2005; Cantami di questo tempo. Poetry and Music in Fabrizio De André, 2003; Salvatore Satta's Judgment Day. Reception, Interpretative Models, 2002). He has published several short stories.