Corrado Confalonieri received his education in Italy and the United States, earning a dottorato in Italian Literature from the University of Padova (2014) and a Ph.D. in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University (2019). He taught at Wesleyan University (2019-20) and at Harvard University, where he served as Lauro De Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow in Italian Studies (2020-21), before joining the University of Parma as an Assistant Professor of Italian Literature (2021-24). From 2024 to 2026, he was Associate Professor of Italian and the inaugural holder of the Bernardino Telesio Endowed Professorship at Chapman University (Orange, California).

His research focuses primarily on Italian Renaissance literature and literary theory, while also extending, on occasion, to twentieth-century and contemporary literature. His publications include “Queste spaziose loggie”: Architettura e poetica nella tragedia italiana del Cinquecento (Naples: Loffredo, 2022); Torquato Tasso e il desiderio di unità: La “Gerusalemme liberata” e una nuova teoria dell’epica (Rome: Carocci, 2022; reprinted 2024); and Ariosto e la teoria: Intertestualità, ironia e realtà nel “Furioso” e nelle sue letture (Ravenna: Longo, 2025). His most  book, Epica. Storia di un'idea, is scheduled for publication in Fall 2026 in the Carocci Editore "Studi Superiori" series.

A member of the Centro di Studi Matteo Maria Boiardo (Scandiano) and of the Centro di Studi Tassiani (Bergamo), he also serves as co-editor of the journals "Between", "Letteratura Cavalleresca Italiana", and "Parole Rubate".