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Giuliana Minghelli

Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (on leave 2008-2009)

Office: Boylston 412
Phone: 617-496-0486
Email: minghell@fas.harvard.edu
Office hours: on leave 2008-2009. By appointment only.

Degrees: Studied at the University of Pisa; MA and PhD, Johns Hopkins University

Recent publications:

Contributor to Who's Who in Contemporary Women's Writing, Routledge, 2001

Essay: "What's in a Word: Rosetta Loy's Search for History in Childhood," MLN 2001

Book: In the Shadow of the Mammoth: Italo Svevo and the Emergence of Modernism, University of Toronto Press, October 2002.

Research interests: Italian Modernism; Geography and Memory in Postwar Italian Literature and Film; Contemporary Women Writers.

Research projects: Dr. Minghelli is finishing an essay on the representation of Africa in popular nineteenth century adventure novels (Emilio Salgari) and twentieth century cartoons (Hugo Pratt) and researching the representation of memory and geography in neorealist films and post-war Italian literature.

Courses offered 2008-2009:

on leave

Other courses offered:

[Italian 83. Italian Popular Culture from ’60 to ’06]

[Italian 113. On the Road and in the Streets: Sites of Transition in Italian Cinema and Literature (1941-to the present)]

[Italian 128. The Fantastic from Dante to Calvino and Beyond]

[Italian 148. Between Africa and Italy: Literature, Film and Cartoons]

[Italian 168. Picturing Place: Landscape, Literature, and Cinema from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century] (co-taught with Maria Grazia Lolla

[Italian 185. Births of a Nation: A History of Italian Cinema (1895-1945)]

[Italian 263. Cities Visible and Invisible: Italian Urban Life and Cultural Change (1904-2004)]

For more information, go to the Romance Languages and Literatures course catalogue.

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Last updated on June 10, 2008