Niccolò Scaffai

Niccolò Sacaffai

Niccolò Scaffai

Member of the jury since 2018

(1975) Niccolò Scaffai is a lecturer and literary critic. He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa and since 2010 is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature at the University of Lausanne, where he heads the Centre interdisciplinaire d'étude des littératures (CIEL) and coordinates the Pôle de recherche sur l'Italianité (RecIt). He deals with modern poetry, 20th century literature, comparative literature and literary theory.