Alessandro Giammei is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Yale University. As a cultural philologist, he studies how modern and contemporary literature and art fantasize genealogical roots in renaissance, chivalric, and classical traditions. His work queers these fantasies, challenging the politics of origin and originality, of authorship and authenticity, of identity and heritage. He is the author of several books, including Ariosto in the Machine Age (University of Toronto Press 2024), which won both the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the MLA and the AAIS Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies.

Trained in literary history and modern philology at the University of Rome La Sapienza and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, before joining the Department of Italian Studies at Yale Alessandro was a Cotsen Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at Princeton University, an Assistant Professor of Transnational Italian Studies at Bryn Mawr College, and a volunteer teacher and director of the Humanities curriculum in the Prison Teaching Initiative. Besides numerous academic publications, his writings and translations appeared in The Paris Review, The Nation, Vanity Fair, Esquire, The Brooklyn Rail, il manifesto, Domani, and la Repubblica.