Aldo Baratta is a research fellow at Sapienza University of Rome. He obtained his Ph.D. in Italian Studies (cycle XXXV) at the same university discussing a dissertation in Comparative Literature entitled "Oggettualità e cosalità: teorie dell’oggetto e logiche di potere nella letteratura contemporanea" (tutor: Prof. Franca Sinopoli; co-tutor: Prof. Francesca Medaglia). From November 2021 to July 2022, after winning a mobility call for research abroad, he was a visiting scholar at Sorbonne Université (tutor: Prof. Davide Luglio). His research interests concern Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, with a focus on Thing Theory, political and capitalist narratives, contemporary novel and the dialogue between scientific and humanistic disciplines. He has published in academic journals such as Comparatismi, Between, Polythesis, Novecento Transnazionale, Enthymema, Studi (e testi) italiani. He was part of the organizing committee of the doctoral conference "'Il ritratto dell’artista da giovane’ nei carteggi privati tra Sette e Novecento”. He has participated as a speaker in numerous national and international conferences, including Icla2022, Escl2020, ENN7, Compalit 2021 and 2022, Mod 2021, 2022 and 2023. He works on science fiction genre as a member of the Osservatorio sul romanzo contemporaneo.

As part of the EuLiterArt project, his contribution intends to apply the conceptual logic of the Wasteocene to the study of transcultural dynamics, with the aim of bringing out a framework of wasting relationships based on a hierarchy of values ​​of a functional and productive nature. Particular attention will be paid to the material and non-human dimension of immigration, understood both as the object heritage that is in turn expatriated and as the process of reification that the migratory subjects themselves undergo.