
Member Profile: Paolo Bartoloni
05 June 2019Paolo Bartoloni, leading cultural theorist was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019.
Paolo Bartoloni is professor of Italian at NUI Galway. He is a leading cultural theorist who has made significant contributions to international scholarship in the areas of comparative literature, translation studies, contemporary philosophy and Italian cultural history. He has written extensively on major European intellectual figures such as Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Italo Svevo, and is the author of four monographs, three edited collections and over 60 refereed articles in major international journals.