Leonardo F. Lisi received his PhD with Distinction from the Department of Comparative Literature at Yale University in 2008. He has published widely on Kierkegaard, Ibsen, Conrad, J. L. Heiberg, Rainer Maria Rilke and W. H. Auden in a number of journals and anthologies of literature and philosophy, in English, Italian and Danish. He is the author of the article on Scandinavian Modernism in the forthcoming The Cambridge Companion to European Modernism, as well as an article on Kierkegaard and modern European literature in the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Søren Kierkegaard. He is also the co-editor of Karsten Harries’ Between Nihilism and Faith. A Commentary on Either/Or, which will be published by Walter de Gruyter in 2009. Leonardo is a council member of the Ibsen Society of America and the recipient of a number of awards and fellowships, such as the Ibsen Essay Prize, the Aurora Borealis Prize and a Leylan Fellowship from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale University. He has been a visiting researcher at the Søren Kierkegaard Research Center at the University of Copenhagen, the Howard and Edna Hong Library at St. Olaf College, Minnesota and the Departments of Philosophy and German at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität in Heidelberg. Currently Leonardo is completing a book manuscript in which he traces the emergence of an alternative aesthetic paradigm in nineteenth century Scandinavia and its influence on European modernism. By focusing on the aesthetic response to the impact of capitalist modernity from a culturally peripheral position, this study lays bare the need to radically revise the governing conceptions of the structure and genealogy of modernist literature more generally. During his time at Hopkins, Leonardo has taught classes on the philosophy and poetics of Kierkegaard, the sense of loss in European Modernism and the aesthetics of Henry James. |
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