Vincenzo Spanò earned with honours his Bachelor’s Degree in Literature at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna in 2017 and spent the academic year 2015-16 at Sorbonne Université, where he studied French and Comparative Literature. He then achieved with honours his Master’s Degree in “Modern Philology” at “La Sapienza” in 2019 with a dissertation in Comparative Literature, concerning the Electra myth in Eugene O'Neill and Jean Giraudoux. At present he is a PhD student in Italian and Comparative Studies at “La Sapienza” and his main fields of interest include mythcriticism, the survival of Antiquity and the use of myths and archetypes in modern and contemporary literature, as well as Gender and Trauma Studies. Following his interest in myth criticism, his research project – supervised by Professor Franca Sinopoli – intends to propose an updated and comparative analysis of the Electra and Orestes myth in twentieth-century literature and in contemporary rewritings, through the medium of the newest insights of literary criticism. He is part of the editorial staff of the academic journal Novecento Transnazionale and has been a member of the organizing committee of the 9^th ESCL Congress (2022). He has lectured at national and international conferences.

His contribution to the EuLiterArt project consists in analyzing some transcultural literary production through the lenses of Myth-criticism and Trauma Studies, in such a way as to draw a frame of contemporary transnational relations grounded in a common historical and theoretical background.