Marco Borrelli is a postdoctoral fellow in Contemporary Italian Literature at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale. After studying Modern Philology at the Università di Napoli Federico II, he obtained a PhD in Italian Studies at the Università di Roma Tre in co-supervision with the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. He works in the field of periodical studies, above all on the relationship between the modern short story and the post-unification magazines. His major work is the monograph Nell’officina del verismo. La novellistica della «Rassegna Settimanale» (Loffredo, 2023). He has also published several contributions on Scapigliatura and Verismo and has participated in international conferences.