Dissertation Title
The Multilingual Grammar of Illegalization: Law, Aesthetics, and Translation in the Central Mediterranean
Research Interests
Migration aesthetics, law, and memory; Francophone literature; Translation Studies; European and Mediterranean history
Tommaso Manfredini received a PhD from the Department of French and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University in 2020. His dissertation explored the construction of migrant illegality in the contemporary Mediterranean.