Italian Studies

Pablo graduated from the University of Zurich with a BA and an MA in Italian and English literature and linguistics and completed his PhD at Brown in May, 2025. His dissertation,  titled “Posthuman Fairy Tales: Reclaiming Folklore in the Anthropocene,” focused on the convergence between posthumanism and European classic fairy tales. Combining methods from animal studies, ecocriticism, and posthumanism, the dissertation’s aim is to show how fairy tales thematize and anticipate theoretical discourses of the 21st century on the posthuman epoch. Besides fairy tales and posthumanism, Pablo's research interests include children’s literature, dystopic and apocalyptic narratives, Digital Humanities, gender studies, and theater.