Academic Degrees: Studied at the University of Pisa; M.A., Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Research Interests: Modernism; Film and Visual Studies; Questions of Landscape, Memory and National Identity; Italian Popular Culture
Current Research Projects:
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When Nathalie Sarraute depicts a knitting woman in her 1932 novel Tropismes, a figure “silent and apart, her head bowed modestly, counting her stitches under her breath” (31), I argue that she points to such a woman as a means of thinking through ideas...
Borders have traditionally been seen as places where people and cultures mix and bleed into one another, even though they exist to prevent exactly such an exchange. How can we reconcile the ambiguous nature of the border as that which forbids entry whilst...
