Antonio Di Vilio

Name: Antonio Di Vilio
Title(s): Ph.D. Student
E-mail: antoniodivilio95@gmail.com
Affiliation: University of Udine/University of Trieste

Bionote: Antonio Di Vilio is a PhD Candidate in Anglo-American literature in the joint doctoral program of the University of Trieste and the University of Udine. In 2019 he earned a Master’s Degree in European and American Languages and Literatures at the University of Naples “L’Orientale” with a dissertation on Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice and its film adaptation directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. His research interests include American noir, Californian literature, detective fiction, pop-culture, postmodern literature and film, anarchism, and post-Marxism. His most recent essays are on the police procedural television series (EUT – Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2022), on Steve Erickson (Iperstoria 18, 2021) and Thomas Pynchon (JamIt! n.5, 2021). From January 2023 he is Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Areas of interest: U.S. Literature; Los Angeles fiction; American noir; Postmodernism; film; Post-Marxism; Anarchism