Iuri MoscardiIuri Moscardi is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Moscardi studied Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Milan, focusing on the works of Cesare Pavese as a novelist an a translator. For this reason, he was awarded the Cesare Pavese National Prize for his Master's Degree Thesis, in which he demonstrated the relevance of Pavese in the first Italian translation of E.L. Masters' 'Spoon River Anthology'. After his graduation in 2014, he moved to Bloomington, Indiana, where he obtained a MA in Italian from Indiana University. His research fields are Contemporary Italian Literature and Digital Humanities: his dissertation relies on these two theoretical fields to focus on some Digital Social Reading projects that involved Cesare Pavese's books. Read More Read Less