Santi Luca Famà-Berglund´s "Spika-fika/nailing"

Today, we celebrated the “nailing” of Santi Luca Famà-Berglund´s doctoral thesis. This tradition, known as “spikning” in Swedish, marks the formal announcement of a PhD candidate’s upcoming defense.

Santi & Cecilia

Foto: Anette Palm Karjalainen

Through the analysis of the literary works of Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Emilio Gadda and Gianna Manzini, Santi’s thesis proposes formal tools to narrate more-than-humanity and provides a critical lens for examining the relationships between humans, other entities and the broader ecosystem.

Santi Luca Famà-Berglund. Foto: Johannes Famà-Berglund

Santi Luca Famà-Berglund. Foto: Johannes Famà-Berglund

Santi Luca Famà-Berglund, PhD candidate in Italian Literature at the Department of Romance Studies and Classics (Stockholm University) will defend his doctoral thesis, titled “Other Forms. Modernismo italiano e più-che-umanità in Luigi Pirandello, Carlo Emilio Gadda e Gianna Manzini”, 4 June 2025 at 14.00, in Bergsmannen, Aula Magna.

Santi Luca Famà

Public Dissertation Defense: Santi Luca Famà-Berglund

Disputation i italienska: Santi Luca Famà-Berglund

Last updated: 2025-05-14

Source: Department of Romance Studies and Classics