Silvia Valisa

Florida State University

Assistant Professor (2008-present)
Curriculum Vitae [PDF]

Expertise

18th, 19th and 20th century Italian Literature, Gender Studies, Comparative Literature (Italian and French)
Theory of the Novel, Film Studies, Trauma Theory, Post-Colonial Studies
Foreign Language Pedagogy, Linguistics, Internet Teaching Technology

Courses/Seminars

Beginners and Intermediate Italian
Transhistorical Survey Classes (in English)
Upper division and Graduate Seminars (in Italian)

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Articles and Book Reviews

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...

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

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

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

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...

Online Project

Progetto Sonzogno, GoogleSites (2010)

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

Teaching Material

Masterpieces of Italian Literature in Translation (2010)

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

Intermediate Italian, Fall 2007 (2007)

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