Giuliana Minghelli
Undergraduate Adviser in Italian
Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures
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Academic Degrees: PhD, MA Johns Hopkins University; studied at the University of Pisa
Research
Interests: Italian Modernism; Geography and Memory in Postwar Italian Literature and Film; Contemporary Women Writers.
Recent
Publications: 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. |
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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 in 2009-2010:
Freshman Seminar 31t. The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography, Cinema, and Italian Culture [spring term]
Italian 88 (formerly Italian 83). Italian Popular Culture in the Age of Television [fall term]
Italian 91r. Supervised Reading and Research [fall and spring terms]
Italian 97. Tutorial—Sophomore Year [fall and spring terms]
Italian 98. Tutorial—Junior Year [fall and spring terms]
Italian 99. Tutorial — Senior Year [fall and spring terms]
Italian 162 (formerly Italian 182). Intimate Architectures: Dwelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Italian Women Writers [spring term]
Italian 175. Picturing Place: Landscape, Literature, and Cinema from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century - (New Course) with Maria Grazia Lolla [fall term]
Other Courses Offered:
[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 RLL course catalogue.
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Last updated on September 8, 2009
