Graziella Parati
Professor
Appointments
Professor of Italian
Joint Appointment in Comparative Literature
Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian Language and Literature
Area of Expertise
Twentieth century Italian literature and culture,
Post-Colonial Studies,
Italian multiculturalism and migrations studies,
Nineteenth-Century Italian literature and History,
Italian Film History,
Italian American literature, History, and Film,
Feminist Criticism and Women's Writing,
Fashion Studies,
Environmental Humanities
Education
"Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere Moderne" Università Statale di Milano, Italy
M.A. University of Washington
Ph.D. Northwestern University
Publications
Diversity and Decolonisation in Italian Studies, co-edited with Simone Brioni, Marie Orton, and Gaoheng Zhang, Special issue of Italian Studies in Southern Africa (Fall 2022)
Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2021) co-edited with Marie Orton and Ron Kubati.
Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy: Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film (London: Palgrave McMillan, 2017).
Italy and the Cultural Politics of WWI (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016).
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices (volume 1)
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: The Arts and History (volume 2)
(Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2012).
The Cultures of Italian Migration co-edited with Anthony Tamburri (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson UP 2011).
Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy, co-edited with Marie Orton (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007).
Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in A Destination Culture (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005). Released in paperback in 2014.
Italian Cultural Studies, co-edited with Anthony Tamburri, Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg, and Ben Lawton (Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, 2002).
Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference co-edited with Rebecca West, (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002).
Italian Cultural Studies co-edited with Ben Lawton, (Boca Raton: Bordighera Press, 2001).
Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy, (Madison NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999).
Public History, Private Stories: Italian Women's Autobiographies, (Minneapolis and London: Minnesota UP, 1996).
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