Marilisa Merolla is a historian, best known for her groundbreaking work on the impact of rock and roll music on history. She is Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, and of “Springsteen as History” at The New School, New York City. She is the founding director of the “Springsteen as History Project,” an original educational program in contemporary history currently streamed by The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University. Among her many international publications, she is the author of the essay “Elvis Outside the USA: A Dark Shadow in the Early Italian Cultural Cold War,” included in Rethinking Elvis (Oxford University Press, 2025), and the book Rock 'n' Roll: Italian Way (Coniglio Editore, 2011). She lives in Rome.

“INTO NOWHERE is a work of blazing perception with the broadest possible historical and cultural reach. No question is ever sacrificed to a received idea, and no nuance is ignored. The book is alive on the page because the desire to understand and to communicate is so strong it produces its own thrill — in other words, it’s really good.” —Greil Marcus, author, music journalist, and cultural critic

Marilisa Merolla is a historian, best known for her groundbreaking work on the impact of rock and roll music on history. She is Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, and of “Springsteen as History” at The New School, New York City. She is the founding director of the “Springsteen as History Project,” an original educational program in contemporary history currently streamed by The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University. Among her many international publications, she is the author of the essay “Elvis Outside the USA: A Dark Shadow in the Early Italian Cultural Cold War,” included in Rethinking Elvis (Oxford University Press, 2025), and the book Rock 'n' Roll: Italian Way (Coniglio Editore, 2011). She lives in Rome.

“INTO NOWHERE is a work of blazing perception with the broadest possible historical and cultural reach. No question is ever sacrificed to a received idea, and no nuance is ignored. The book is alive on the page because the desire to understand and to communicate is so strong it produces its own thrill — in other words, it’s really good.” —Greil Marcus, author, music journalist, and cultural critic

Marilisa Merolla is a historian, best known for her groundbreaking work on the impact of rock and roll music on history. She is Professor of Contemporary History at Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, and of “Springsteen as History” at The New School, New York City. She is the founding director of the “Springsteen as History Project,” an original educational program in contemporary history currently streamed by The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University. Among her many international publications, she is the author of the essay “Elvis Outside the USA: A Dark Shadow in the Early Italian Cultural Cold War,” included in Rethinking Elvis (Oxford University Press, 2025), and the book Rock 'n' Roll: Italian Way (Coniglio Editore, 2011). She lives in Rome.

“INTO NOWHERE is a work of blazing perception with the broadest possible historical and cultural reach. No question is ever sacrificed to a received idea, and no nuance is ignored. The book is alive on the page because the desire to understand and to communicate is so strong it produces its own thrill — in other words, it’s really good.” —Greil Marcus, author, music journalist, and cultural critic