Annalisa Mirizio (1971, Italy) is Serra Hunter Fellow 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). From 2009 she has regularly taught Literary Theory and Comparative Literature courses in the degree Estudis literaris and since March 2015 she coordinates the research area of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature in the PhD Program Estudis Lingüístics, Literaris i Culturals in the Faculty of Philology and Communication at the Universitat de Barcelona. In February 2020, she was appointed Coordinator of the degree Estudis literaris.
In the last ten years she has studied the reception of literary theory in film theory, both in the first debates of the twenties on literaricity and cinematographicity and in the cinematic modernity, in particular way, in relationship with Roland Barthes' thought. She is now working on the circulation and uses of critical paradigms of literary theory in film theory. She has published, among other essays, two books on the relation of literary theory with film theory and with the contemporary theory on visual arts -Los antimodernos del cine: una retaguardia de la vanguardia (2014) and Fuera del cuadro: cine, palabra e imagen en las artes modernas (ed., 2014). She co-edited the 2.1 (spring 2017) issue 'Rethinking World Literature Studies in Latin America and Spanish Contexts' 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 has led two competitive international projects on the circulation of critical paradigms of theory as head researcher of the group GLICIART. Literature, cinema and other artistic languages of the University Barcelona (http://www.ub.edu/gliciart/).
