Stefano Franceschini

Name: Stefano Franceschini

Title(s): PhD

Affiliation: Roma Tre University

E-mail: stefano.franceschini@uniroma3.it

Bionote:
Stefano Franceschini earned a PhD in Anglo-American Literature at Roma Tre University, where he completed a dissertation on Richard Powers (2024). He received an “Ernst Mach Grant – Worldwide” from the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Research in 2023. He is currently the recipient of a Junior Fellowship within the Field of Excellence “Dimensions of Europe” at the University of Graz, where he will be in residence in late 2026-early 2027. He is the author of the monograph, “What does that tune mean?”: The Meaning of Music in the Novels of Richard Powers (Nova Delphi, 2025), and has published several essays on Weird Fiction, intermediality and American Gothic. He has taught English at Sapienza University and Anglo-American Literature at Roma Tre, and also serves on the boards of the American Studies journals Letterature d’America and Jam It!

Research interests: Intermediality, weird fiction, medical narratives