Stefano Ercolino

Stefano Ercolino is an associate professor of Comparative Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Italy). His work has appeared in Comparative Literature, Novel, Historical Materialism, Orbis Litterarum, Neohelicon, and b2o, among others. He is the author of The Maximalist Novel (Bloomsbury 2014), The Novel-Essay, 1884–1947 (Palgrave Macmillan 2014), and, with Massimo Fusillo, of Negative Empathy in Literature and the Arts (Routledge 2026). Along with Francesco de Cristofaro, he edited Experimental Criticism: Franco Moretti and Literature (Verso 2026), and he is currently editing Philosophy of Atmospheres: Analytic Perspectives with Elvira Di Bona (Routledge 2027, forthcoming). He has taught at Yonsei University’s Underwood International College and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Manchester, a DAAD Postdoctoral Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, and a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University.