La Littérature et la vie (Classiques Garnier, 2018) reflects on the relationship between life and literature in literary works and essays in French, English and other languages, from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to present time. In particular, it explores the boundaries and implications of the notion of life in literary theory, and the links between reality, experience, and fiction.

Récit de vie, récit de soi  (Passage(s), 2018) is a volume on autobiography today exploring contemporary authors (Ernaux, Forest, Rachid O., Thúy, Taïa, Djian, Alix Cléo Roubaud), showing how life writing can transcend literature, and discuss representations of collective traumas.

Ippolito specializes in post-1800 French literature and culture, and contemporary African cultures, and has published books on Flaubert and description, edited volumes on the Middle East, modern France, and more than 50 book chapters and articles. He is currently working on a monograph on literature and politics, as well as one on post-francophone identities.