ALI DEHDARIRAD

Ali Dehdarirad is the author of From Faraway California: Thomas Pynchon's Aesthetics of Space in the California Trilogy (2023). He is a postdoctoral researcher and he currently teaches American literature and culture at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he obtained his Ph.D. in English-language Literatures with a focus on American literature. He has published a number of essays on Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, William T. Vollmann, Cormac McCarthy, Paul Auster, John Edward Williams, and Stephen Markley. His main research interests include (post)postmodernist and contemporary American literature, urban humanities, California literature, the Anthropocene, and the encyclopedic novel.