Francesco Eugenio Barbieri

Biography

Francesco Eugenio Barbieri is an assistant professor of Japanese Language and Literature at the Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of Bergamo in Italy.
He obtained his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna, where he discussed a thesis in literary theory. From 2014 to 2016, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, thanks to a research grant awarded by the JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science).

He has taught Japanese literature at the University of Catania (Ragusa campus) and at the University of Torino, Italy. Additionally, at the University of Torino, he held postdoctoral research grants on Japanese contemporary literature, specifically on the work of the writer Tawada Yōko.

His current research interests include contemporary Japanese literature, specifically the relationship between literature and globalization, and transcultural literature (ekkyō bungaku). He is also interested in the representation of global urban space in contemporary Japanese literature.

He has published essays and contributions on the work of the Japanese writer Tawada Yōko and a monographic volume in Italian on the representation of urban space in a selection of contemporary Japanese authors (Forme e funzioni della città globale nella narrativa giapponese contemporanea, Agora & Co. 2023).