Yannick Gouchan is Professor of Italian Literature and Culture at Aix Marseille Université (France). He teaches at the Italian Studies Department and is a researcher at the Center of Research in Romance Studies (CAER), since 2004. He is member of the editorial board of the French review Italies and the Italian publishing house Stilo Editrice. His scholarship mainly concerns contemporary Italian literature, in particular Poetry. He published many articles and essays on Giovanni Pascoli, Attilio Bertolucci, Vittorio Sereni, as well as Paolo Maccari, Salvatore Quasimodo and the World War I Italian Literature (articles online https://hal-amu.archives-ouvertes.fr/).
His last published works are about childhood in Italian Poetry between the late 19th and the early 20th centuries (La figura del fanciullo nell’opera di D’Annunzio, di Pascoli e dei Crepuscolari, Cisalpino, 2016, and Enfances italiennes, “Italiesˮ, n. 21, PUP, 2017, and n. 22 to be published in 2018). As a member of the board of the Biography Society (http://biographysociety.org/), he contributes to it with studies on the relationship between Poetry and Biography (Giovanni Pascoli à l’épreuve de la biographie, 2016 ; Études biographiques. La biographie au carrefour des Humanités, Champion, 2018), as well as the Biography in the graphic novel (La vie graphique d’Elizabeth Siddal, 2018).
