Biography

Thomas Harrison, Ph.D in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center, CUNY, has most recently authored Of Bridges: A Poetic and Philosophical Account. He specializes in modern European intellectual history, literature, and the comparative arts and culture. He also researches Italian critical theory, photography, aesthetics, the modernist novel and poetics.

He is the author of 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance, a study of European expressionism across the arts, and of Essayism: Conrad, Musil and Pirandello. He has edited Nietzsche in Italy as well as The Favorite Malice: Ontology and Reference in Contemporary Italian Poetry. With fellow professor of Italian Gian Maria Annovi (USC) he has edited the critical anthology Ends of Poetry. He has also published studies on the Watts Towers, Claudio Magris, Massimo Cacciari, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Zanzotto, Elsa Morante, Simone Weil, Gianni Vattimo, and Gianni Celati. On the side he has performed as bass player with the rock group Glass Wave