Dr Adriano Tedde

I am a Lecturer in Strategic Studies at the Australian War College in Canberra.

I completed a PhD in American Studies with Griffith University (2019) and a MA in Foreign Affairs from the Institute of International Political Studies (ISPI) of Milan, Italy (2004). Before joining Deakin, I taught Comparative Politics, Foreign Politics, Italian Constitutional Law, Communication and Humanities courses with different Australian universities. I was a fellow visiting scholar at the Center for American Studies of Columbia University in 2017.

I worked as a career diplomat for the Italian Republic for twelve years.

My current research project is a cultural explanation of neoliberal politics and its socio-economic effects.

Selected publications:

Marginalisation and Utopia in Paul Auster, Jim Jarmusch, and Tom Waits: The Other America. (2022, London: Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003221173

“We’re Just the Gravel on the Road.” The Dissenting Music of Tom Waits. Comparative American Studies An International Journal vol. 18, No. 2, 2021: https://doi.org/10.1080/14775700.2021.1976012

“Far more poetry than justice.” The economics of austerity in the America of Paul Auster. Literature Compass vol. 17, no. 10, 2020: https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12602

Tedde A., Baker D. “Jim Jarmusch’s Mystery Train (1989): Representing the Memphis Music Legacy on Film.” In Istvandity L., Baker S., Cantillon Z. (eds), Remembering Popular Music’s Past: Heritage – History – Memory (2019, London: Anthem Press).

“Americanaland by John Milward” Book review, Australasian Journal of American Studies vol. 41, n. 1. 2022.

“Kill ‘Em and Leave: Searching for the American Soul by James McBride” Book review, PopMec Blog, 2021: https://popmec.hypotheses.org/4695.

“Trump’s America: Political Culture and Identity by Liam Kennedy (ed.)” Book review, Australasian Journal of American Studies vol. 39, n. 1: 264-268, 2020.

Full publication list:

https://adrianotedde.academia.edu