Carlo Caccia is a PhD student in "Ecology of cultural and institutional systems" at the University of Eastern Piedmont (UPO) in Vercelli. His areas of interest are literary theory, literary philosophy and comparative literature (science fiction and confessional genre). He is currently working on a doctoral thesis on Gaston Bachelard's literary theory. At the same time he is completing a monograph on the contemporary French writer Antoine Volodine. He is a member of the editorial board of Enthymema. International journal of literary criticism, literary theory and philosophy of literature (Scopus, Web of Science).

His contribution to the EuLiterArt Project, in collaboration with Stefania Sini, concerns prison narratives, literary and filmic, examined in a transcultural and transnational key, with particular attention to fictional, testimonial and hybrid genre works of the European 20th and 21st centuries. The heterotopic status of the prison constitutes a privileged observatory for exploring the different ways of representing the experience of questioning, transformation, renegotiation of identity and shared axiologies that the EuLiterArt Project intends to investigate.