Treasurer
Luca Abbattista is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Italian at Columbia University. In the 2018 his masters thesis entitled "Gli autori francesi nel «Candido» di Leonardo Sciascia," has been shortlisted for the Giovanni Testori Prize. In 2019 he became a recipient of a Fulbright grant.
He has published articles in "Lettera Zero" on contemporary Italian literature and short stories in "L'irrequieto." His interests include Modern and Contemporary Italian literature, French libertine novels, Freudian theories of literature, Ignacio Matte Blanco.