Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature

College of Staten Island
Modern Languages Department
2800 Victory Boulevard 
Staten Island, New York 10314
 

Primary concentrations:

Literary Theory, Film Theory, Gender and Feminist Theory, Italian Cultural Studies

Book:

• Rooms with a View: Feminist Diary Fiction, 1952-1994. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.

Selected articles:

• "La passione secondo Marco Bellocchio. Gli ultimi giorni di Aldo Moro." Annali d’Italianistica 25 (2007): 397-408.
• "A volte ritornano: A Critical Reading of Mimmo Calopresti’s La seconda volta." The Italian Academy Newsletter 3 (Fall 2007): 8-9.
• "Parigi o cara: Terrorism, Exile, and Escape in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Theatre" Annali d’Italianistica 20 (2002): 403-424.
• "Terrorism, Truth, and the Secret Service: Questions of Accountability in the Italian Cinema of the Stragi di Stato." Annali d’Italianistica 19 (2001): 285-302.
• "Unforgiven: Revisiting Political Terrorism in La seconda volta." Italica 77.2 (2000): 199-213.
• "Scambi d’identità. Il recupero del corpo materno ne L’amore molesto." Romance Languages Annual 10 (1999):288-291.
• "Thou Shalt Not Break the Mold: Patriarchal Discourse in Va' dove ti porta il cuore." Romance Languages Annual 9 (1998): 238-243.
• "Fuga dallo sguardo. Panotticismo e fallocrazia in Quaderno proibito e Il rimorso." Igitur 6.1 (1994): 103-121.
• "Leggere à rebours. Strategie di interpretazione storico-testuale in The Robber Bride." Rivista di studi canadesi 7 (1994): 105-115.

Selected chapters in books:

• "Exceptional Films: Political Terrorism in Italian Cinema" in Incontri culturali da oltre oceano. Edited by Antonio Vitti. Pesaro: Metauro, 2008. 115-131.
• "Il coraggio di (di)mostrare. Il cinema del caso Moro" in Intellettuali italiani del secondo novecento. Edited by Thomas Stauder and Angela Barwig. Oldenbourg: Verlag für deutsch-italienische Studien, 2007. 465-480.
• "Sciascia, Moretti, and Tuca Tuca: Teaching Italian Cultural Studies at Smith College" in Italian Cultural Studies. Edited by Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton. West Lafayette: VIA Folios, 2001. 144-159.
• "The Gift of an Italian Feu la Cendre: A Derridean Approach to Quaderno proibito." in Writing Beyond Fascism: Cultural Resistance in the Life and Works of Alba de Cèspedes. Edited by Carole Gallucci and Ellen Nerenberg. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. 198-221.
• "A memoria: Charting a Cultural Map for Women's Transition from Preistoria to Storia." The Pleasure of Writing: Critical Essays on Dacia Maraini. Edited by Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld and Ada Testaferri. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2000. 149-164.

Encyclopedia entries:

• "Terrorism" Encyclopedia of Italian Literature Studies. Edited by Gaetana Marrone Puglia. London: Routledge, 2006. 1862-1866.
• "Alba de Céspedes" Dictionary of Literary Biography: Italian Novelists, 1900-1945. Edited by Rocco Capozzi and Luca Somigli. Detroit: Gale Research Company, 2002. 96-102.
• "Rossana Campo." "Alba de Céspedes." "Deconstruction." "Diary and Epistolary Fiction." "Michel Foucault." The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature. Edited by Rinaldina Russell. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1997. 39-40, 62-65, 67-68, 128-129.