About

Eloisa Morra is an Italian and Canadian academic and writer, most recently the author of Florine Stettheimer (Electa 2025). She holds a BA and MA from the Scuola Normale Superiore and a PhD from Harvard, and is currently an Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Toronto.

Previous books include La lente di Gadda (Electa 2024, Premio Pannunzio, Selection Premio Nabokov), Poetiche della Visibilità (Carocci, 2023) and Un allegro fischiettare nelle tenebre. Ritratto di Toti Scialoja (Quodlibet, 2014, Selection Edinburgh Gadda Prize); she is the editor of Armanda Guiducci’s works for nottetempo and of Scialoja A-Z (Electa, 2023), Gianni Celati in Context (Mimesis, 2023), Building the Canon (Brill, 2019), Toti Scialoja e i linguaggi dell’arte (Carocci, 2019). Her latest exhibition projects include Calvino cantafavole (Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, 2023) and Pino Pascali Toti Scialoja. Confluenze (Kursaal Santalucia, 2024). Her work has been supported by the Cini Foundation, Civitella Ranieri, Centre for Italian Modern Arts, the Gladys G. Krieble Foundation.

She is a contributing writer at Il Sole 24 ore and The European Review of Books and the co-editor of Elettra, a series of short stories on father and daughters. Besides numerous academic journals and volumes, her writings on books, art and culture have appeared in LA Review of Books, Lucy, New York Times, Flash Art, Finzioni.