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Eloisa Bressan

Eloisa Bressan received her B.A. in Classics and her M.A. in Modern Philology from the University of Padua in Italy. Her M.A. dissertation investigated the montage of elements from Ancient Greek and medieval Provençal literatures in The Cantos of Ezra Pound. After completing her M.A., Eloisa pursued her graduate studies in France until finally transferring to the doctoral program in Comparative Literary Studies here at Northwestern University. She is interested in 19th and 20th century French and Italian literature and film, and especially in their intertwining with history and philology. She is a Poetry and Poetics Mellon cluster fellow at Northwestern.