Salvatore Pappalardo
@salvapappalardo.bsky.social
Literary scholar of European Modernism and Mediterranean Studies. Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Towson University. Habsburg Empire, Austria, Trieste, Mitteleuropa / Jewish and Islamic Sicily, Arab-Italian Mediterranean | Soccer coach
My teaching of Ovid always involves a discussion of Persephone's act of resistance to Hades and the ancient belief in the contraceptive properties of pomegranates, so central to the story. I also mention how much I love this fruit. And so my students gave me a pomegranate today.
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
My teaching of Ovid always involves a discussion of Persephone's act of resistance to Hades and the ancient belief in the contraceptive properties of pomegranates, so central to the story. I also mention how much I love this fruit. And so my students gave me a pomegranate today.
László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel prize sparked pride in Trieste where he owns a home. Il Piccolo calls him a “Triestino by choice,” who “brought the Nobel prize to Trieste”. Bandwagon jump or legitimate point? In my book, a few reasons for adopting this literary home. www.bloomsbury.com/us/modernism...
Modernism in Trieste
When we think about the process of European unification, our conversations inevitably ponder questions of economic cooperation and international politics. Salva…
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October 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
László Krasznahorkai’s Nobel prize sparked pride in Trieste where he owns a home. Il Piccolo calls him a “Triestino by choice,” who “brought the Nobel prize to Trieste”. Bandwagon jump or legitimate point? In my book, a few reasons for adopting this literary home. www.bloomsbury.com/us/modernism...
Looking forward to reading this!
Available for pre-order now. Recommend to all of your friends who think of WWI only in terms of the Western Front! The results of two hugely talented historians co-authoring a book.
September 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Looking forward to reading this!
My Mount Etna figs are doing so well in Baltimore. Got this tree seven years ago when it was a little sprig. With patience and love (and fighting off ravenous squirrels) I have been cultivating this tree that reminds me of home. I love my summer morning ritual to harvest some figs for breakfast.
August 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
My Mount Etna figs are doing so well in Baltimore. Got this tree seven years ago when it was a little sprig. With patience and love (and fighting off ravenous squirrels) I have been cultivating this tree that reminds me of home. I love my summer morning ritual to harvest some figs for breakfast.
Very excited to work with some really smart and thoughtful people on the idea of Central Europe.
The idea of Central (and NOT Eastern) Europe has been around for some 200 years. Is it anti-E-Eur racism? Is it the vision of a global role for a marginalized area? Nationalities Papers has now accepted our Special Issue proposal on the topic. @salvapappalardo.bsky.social @brasky.bsky.social
July 31, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Very excited to work with some really smart and thoughtful people on the idea of Central Europe.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use
Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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The beauty of Lake Michigan.
July 5, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The beauty of Lake Michigan.
History on the hammock and soccer on my mind.
June 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
History on the hammock and soccer on my mind.
Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic. Egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.
Liebe ist die Mitherrschende Bürgerin eines blühenden Freistaates. Egoismus ein Despot in einer verwüsteten Schöpfung.
Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters 1797-1798
Liebe ist die Mitherrschende Bürgerin eines blühenden Freistaates. Egoismus ein Despot in einer verwüsteten Schöpfung.
Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters 1797-1798
June 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic. Egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.
Liebe ist die Mitherrschende Bürgerin eines blühenden Freistaates. Egoismus ein Despot in einer verwüsteten Schöpfung.
Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters 1797-1798
Liebe ist die Mitherrschende Bürgerin eines blühenden Freistaates. Egoismus ein Despot in einer verwüsteten Schöpfung.
Friedrich Schiller, Philosophical Letters 1797-1798
A little fox (maybe a puppy?) resting in a driveway in our neighborhood.
June 13, 2025 at 12:05 AM
A little fox (maybe a puppy?) resting in a driveway in our neighborhood.
Lovely, stimulating, and productive conversations at the Mitteleuropa and Central Europe workshop conference at the University of Toronto. Many thanks to @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social for the generous hospitality.
May 24, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Lovely, stimulating, and productive conversations at the Mitteleuropa and Central Europe workshop conference at the University of Toronto. Many thanks to @ivan-kalmar.bsky.social for the generous hospitality.
As the semester is wrapping up, a former student who now works in the building stops by to thank me for my courses on Homer, Joyce, Ovid, and the Phoenicians. Overwhelmed by such gratitude, I realize I don’t have a vase for these beautiful flowers. Our department water bottle came to the rescue.
May 6, 2025 at 5:35 PM
As the semester is wrapping up, a former student who now works in the building stops by to thank me for my courses on Homer, Joyce, Ovid, and the Phoenicians. Overwhelmed by such gratitude, I realize I don’t have a vase for these beautiful flowers. Our department water bottle came to the rescue.
Hi, there. I am new here. This is how I spend most of time, reading in German and Austrian literatures and cultures, as well as Italian and Sicilian fiction. I am interested in how literary texts imagine cultural and political communities across Europe and the Mediterranean.
April 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Hi, there. I am new here. This is how I spend most of time, reading in German and Austrian literatures and cultures, as well as Italian and Sicilian fiction. I am interested in how literary texts imagine cultural and political communities across Europe and the Mediterranean.