Short biography
Raffaele Pinto is a professor of Italian Philology at the University of Barcelona. He is the director of the “Societat Catalana d’Estudis Dantescos” and coordinates the “Seminario permanente de psicoanálisis, cine y literatura de la Universitat de Barcelona”. His main research topics include Dante and the influence of his work on literature and cinema, the history of modern European literature, literary theory (with particular attention to the psychoanalytic theories of literature and cinema), and the use of new technologies in teaching literature.