Articles and Book Reviews

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Still figures: Photography, modernity and gender in Neera’s Fotografie matrimoniali, The Italianist (2010)

This essay discusses author Neera's early novel "Fotografie matrimoniali" (1883) in light of its ambiguous...

 

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Corpi estranei and Moving Stereotypes: Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Trauma of the Other in "L'odore dell'India", MLN - Modern Language Notes (2009)
 

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For the Sake of the Children - Book review, H-Italy (2009)
 

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A Passion for Detail: Mussolini, Fascism, and Censorship, H-Italy (2008)
 

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Gendered Quests: Analysis, Revelation and the Epistemology of Gender in Neera's "Teresa", "Lydia" and "L'indomani", The Italianist (2008)

This essay is devoted to Milanese fin-de-siècle writer Neera, more specifically to the three novels...

 

Contributions to Books

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An Imaged Life. Wanda Wulz and the Familiar Archive, A 'window' on the Female Modernist 'I': from Neera to Elsa Morante (2013)

This essay reviews Italian photographer Wanda Wulz's (1903-1984) artistic production in light of the family...

 

Casa editrice Sonzogno: mediazione culturale, circuiti del sapere ed innovazione tecnologica nell'Italia unificata (1861-1900), The Printed Media in Fin-de-siecle Italy: Publishers, Writers, and Readers (2011)
 

Online Project

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Progetto Sonzogno, GoogleSites (2011)

This is a sample of my research on the history of publishing.

 

Teaching Material

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Masterpieces of Italian Literature in Translation (2010)
 

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Interdisciplinary seminar "Nation, Gender and Literature" (2009)
 

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Intermediate Italian, Fall 2007 (2007)
 

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Upper Division and Graduate Seminar, 'Italian Women Writers: What is Literature and What is a Woman?' (2007)