Mattia Bonasia is PhD student in Italian studies at Sapienza Università di Roma (XXXVII cycle) in co-tutorship with Sorbonne Université, with a research project which named: “Relationships writings. Comparaison between Édpuard Glissant, Luigi Meneghello and Salman Rushdie” (tutor. Prof. Franca Sinopoli; co-tutor: Prof. Romuald Fonkoua). His research interests concern theory of literature and comparative literature, with a focus on the contemporary international debate on World Literature and Littérature-monde, theory of the novel, cultural studies, literary transnationality and translation studies.
He's published on “Enthymema”, "Novecento Transnazionale", "Studi e testi italiani", and in collections. He's partecipated to different international congress such as "ICLA Congress" (Tbilisi, 2022), "Compalit. L'autorialità polimorfica" (L'Aquila, 2022), "Transcultural Europe in the Global World" (Paris Nanterre, 2022). He's made part of various organizing committees: "9th ESCL Congress" (Roma, 2022), "L'autore e la critica: Luigi Meneghello nel centenario della nascita" (Roma, 2023), "ENN7" (Monopoli, 2023), e "Transculturalità: un concetto operativo in Europa?" (Roma, 2022). He has collaborated to the publishing of the homonyms conference proceedings (Roma, Lithos, 2023). He cooperates with the “Osservatorio sul romanzo contemporaneo”, in the group “Letteratura global”.

His research line arises from his doctoral thesis. He aims to study transculturality’s contribution to Édouard Glissant’s “poetic of relation”. His purpose is to demonstrate how transculturality could be used as an operational concept in the field of Comparative Literature, through the structuration of some analysis guidelines like: worldly novel, relational focalization, rhizomatic authorship.