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Salvatore Pappalardo

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Literary scholar of European Modernism and Mediterranean Studies. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Towson University. Habsburg Empire, Austria, Trieste, Mitteleuropa / Jewish and Islamic Sicily, Arab-Italian Mediterranean | Soccer coach

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Modernism in Trieste When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salva…

László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel prize sparked pride in Trieste where he owns a home. Il Piccolo calls him a “Triestino by choice,” who “brought the Nobel prize to Trieste”. Bandwagon jump or legitimate point? In my book, a few reasons for adopting this literary home. www.bloomsbury.com/us/modernism...

10.10.2025 20:33 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Looking forward to reading this!

25.09.2025 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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My Mount Etna figs are doing so well in Baltimore. Got this tree seven years ago when it was a little sprig. With patience and love (and fighting off ravenous squirrels) I have been cultivating this tree that reminds me of home. I love my summer morning ritual to harvest some figs for breakfast.

03.08.2025 22:15 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Very excited to work with some really smart and thoughtful people on the idea of Central Europe.

31.07.2025 21:37 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Rather Good News. Bookmark now.

18.07.2025 11:09 — 👍 41    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 0
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The beauty of Lake Michigan.

05.07.2025 18:22 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great read! Thank you for sharing.

28.06.2025 15:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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History on the hammock and soccer on my mind.

21.06.2025 19:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic. Egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.

Liebe ist die Mitherrschende Bürgerin eines blühenden Freistaates. Egoismus ein Despot in einer verwüsteten Schöpfung.

Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters 1797-1798

19.06.2025 13:07 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A little fox (maybe a puppy?) resting in a driveway in our neighborhood.

13.06.2025 00:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Lovely, stimulating, and productive conversations at the Mitteleuropa and Central Europe workshop conference at the University of Toronto. Many thanks to @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social for the generous hospitality.

24.05.2025 12:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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As the semester is wrapping up, a former student who now works in the building stops by to thank me for my courses on Homer, Joyce, Ovid, and the Phoenicians. Overwhelmed by such gratitude, I realize I don’t have a vase for these beautiful flowers. Our department water bottle came to the rescue.

06.05.2025 17:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi, there. I am new here. This is how I spend most of time, reading in German and Austrian literatures and cultures, as well as Italian and Sicilian fiction. I am interested in how literary texts imagine cultural and political communities across Europe and the Mediterranean.

25.04.2025 15:31 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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