Carlo Pirozzi

CARLO PIROZZI is currently a Teaching Fellow at the Italian Depart-ment of the University of Edinburgh. His main research interests are language teaching methodologies, Diaspora Studies (in particu-lar, Italian migration to Scotland), contemporary Italian poetry and literature and the visual and performing arts. He is the coordinator of the ‘Italo-Scottish Research Cluster’ at the University of Edinburgh.
In addition to this, he initiates and develops creative interdiscipli-nary projects involving universities, public and private cultural institu-tions, as well as collaborations between artists from Scotland and Italy.

For Luath Press, he has published Like Leaves in Autumn. Responses to the War Poetry of Giuseppe Ungaretti (co-edited with Katherine Lockton, Edinburgh: Luath Press, 2015). Other relevant publications are a photographic diary of the journey of an Italo-Scot travelling from Edinburgh to Cassino, in Italy, after the Second World War, No-Where-Next | War-Diaspora-Origin. Dominic Scappaticcio. A Journey, 1946–1947 (edited by Federica G Pedriali and Carlo Pirozzi, Ravenna: Longo, 2015); and a recent reprint of powerful novel-memoir Wandering Minstrel written by an Italo-Scot, Eugenio D’Agostino, under the pseudonym Cagliardo Coraggioso (edited by Carlo Pirozzi, uk: Amazon, 2018; first edition 1938, Oxford University Press).

In 2014, he won a Special Jury Prize in the Edinburgh International Film Festival’s Short Film Challenge for the film Coral Red, which he wrote and co-directed.