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Born in Veneto, Northern Italy, Federico Sessolo earned his B.A. and M.A. in Italian Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He then moved to Pisa to attend the prestigious Ph.D. program in Italian Studies at Scuola Normale Superiore. During his postgraduate years, he served as a visiting research scholar at Yale University. Before joining ůůֱ²¥, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Charles and Joan Alberto Institute of Italian Studies at Seton Hall (NJ).

He specializes in 20th-century Italian literature, often adopting a transnational and transhistorical perspective. He has worked extensively on the cultural transfer between Europe and the United States in the interwar period, combining textual analysis, archival investigation, and broader questions of intellectual history. He has published or presented papers on Giuseppe Antonio Borgese, Eugenio Montale, Mario Soldati, Leo Ferrero, Thomas and Klaus Mann, Marcel Proust, John Fante, and Robert Hutchins. His field of scholarly interest also includes travel literature, book history, the investigation of trans-historical legacies of the Middle Ages (Dante, Joachim of Fiore), and the relationship between the humanities and the atomic discovery in the early 20th century.

Sessolo has single-authored articles in peer-reviewed journals, such as Italian Studies, Bibliotheca Dantesca, and Synergies. In 2025, he published his first monograph, titled L’alleanza dello spirito: Giuseppe Antonio Borgese e Thomas Mann in America (1938-1952), for which he received the Polizzi Generosa International Prize. He is currently developing his second book-length project, dedicated to the cultural exchanges of philosophers, writers, and artists in Lisbon, a major hub for the European diaspora towards the Americas, from 1938 to 1945.