Annalisa Mirizio (1971, Italy) is Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the Universitat de Barcelona (PhD in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, Doctor Europaeus with Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the Universitat de Barcelona, 2004). Since 2009, she has taught in the Bachelor's Degree in Literary Studies, and since October 2024, she has been coordinating the doctoral program in "Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies" at the Faculty of Philology and Communication at the same university.
She studies the dialogue between literary theory and cinematographic thought, feminist theory and cultural studies, attempting to construct a theoretical-critical perspective focused on the circulation of forms and concepts between literature and other artistic languages.
She has published essays on Chantal Akerman, Carmelo Bene, Icíar Bollaín, Albertina Carri, Hélène Cixous, Claire Denis, Víctor Erice, Helena Lumbreras, Cecilia Mangini, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gertrude Stein, among others. She is the author of 'Los antimodernos del cine: una retaguardia de la vanguardia (2014) and 'Pasolini: la biblioteca como archivo' (forthcoming, 2025). She has participated as editor and author in the collective volumes: 'Fuera del cuadro: cine, palabra e imagen en las artes modernas (2014); 'Los trovadores: recepción, creación y crítica en la edad media y la edad contemporánea' (with Meritxell Simó and Virginia Trueba, 2017), 'Travesías, desvíos, obstrucciones. La circulación de la teoría francesa en Latinoamérica y España' (with Gonzalo Aguilar and Claudia Amigo, 2022), 'La teoría proyectada. Usos de la biblioteca en el cine español del siglo XXI' (with Paula Juanpere, 2023). She co-edited the 2.1 (spring 2017) issue 'Rethinking World Literature Studies in Latin America and Spanish Contexts' (with Marta Puxan-Oliva) of the Journal of World Literature and the monographic 'The Artist's Library: Uses of Literary Thought in Cinema and Visual Arts (1975-2015)', 452Fº. Revista de Teoría de la Literatura y Literatura Comparada (July, 2018). Since 2012, she is the head researcher of the group GLICIART. Group of research in Literature, cinema and other artistic languages of the Universitat de Barcelona (http://www.ub.edu/gliciart/).
