Publications

Peer-reviewed Articles

“Come d’aria” Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly, vol. 46. Forthcoming in 2024

“Gender, Housework, and Urban Space in Armanda Guiducci’s Due donne da buttare.” Altre modernità, vol. 48, 2022, pp. 499-510.

“Reimagining Griselda: Christine de Pizan’s Rewriting of Boccaccio.” NeMLA Italian Studies, vol. 43, 2022, pp. 187-204.

“Rural Italy in Feminist Writing: Dialogism, Polyphony and Heteroglossia in Armanda Guiducci’s La donna non è gente.” Gender/Sexuality/Italy, no. 7, 2021. www.gendersexualityitaly.com/6-rural-italy-in-feminist-writing.

“Claire Bretécher: Female Humor and the Myths of Consumer Society.” The French Review, vol. 93, no. 4, 2020, pp. 67-82.

“Through the Looking-Glass: Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Reflections Of/On the Body.” Body Studies Journal, vol. 1, no. 1, 2019. www.bodystudiesjournal.org/michelangelo-pistoletto.

Book Chapters

“Recounting Italian Feminism in the 1970s Through Gabriella Parca’s Voci dal carcere femminile.Théâtre sonore et voix de femmes incarcérées dans un dispositif de récits de soi. Edited by Simon Harel, Valentina Pancaldi et Mira Missirian. Presse de l’Université de Laval, 2024, 73-96.

“Photographing the Caribbean: Visual Imagination in Gisèle Pineau’s Femmes des Antilles.” Reimagining Resistance in Gisèle Pineau’s Works, edited by Gras, Delphine, and Lisa Connell. Lexington Books, 2022, pp. 101-21.

“Il tema dell’espera in El coronel no tiene quien le escriba.” Le attese. Opificio di Letteratura Reale, vol. 2. Edited by Canzaniello, Emanuele and Elisabetta Abignente, ad est dell’equatore, 2016, pp. 71-81.

Co-authored Peer-reviewed Book Chapter

Diraviam, Domenica, and Viviana Pezzullo. “Discovering Italian American Culture Through Public Digital Humanities: Building Language Competencies and Community Engagement.” The Art of Teaching Italian, edited by Giulia Guarnieri. Georgetown University Press, 2024 pp. 41-59.

Book Reviews

“Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín. Culture, Nature, and the Other in Caribbean Literature: An Ecocritical Approach. Cambria Press, 2023.” Women in French. Forthcoming in 2024

“Robyn Cope. The Pen and the Pan: Food, Fiction and the Homegrown Caribbean Feminism(s). The U of the West Indies P, 2021.” Women in French, vol. 30, 2022, pp. 184-85.

“Mercédès Baillargeon. Le personnel est politique: médias, esthétique, et politique de l’autofiction chez Christine Angot, Chloé Delaume, and Nelly Arcan. Purdue UP, 2019.” Women in French, vol. 28, 2020, pp. 139-40.

“Paul Stern. Dante’s Philosophical Life. Politics and Human Wisdom in Purgatorio. U of Pennsylvania P, 2018.” Annali d’Italianistica, vol. 37, 2019, pp. 605-08.

“Claudia Jacobi. Proust dixit ? Réceptions de La Recherche dans l’autofiction de Serge Doubrovsky, Carmen Martín Gaite et Walter Siti. Bonn UP, 2016.” Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, vol. 43, no. 2, 2019. newprairiepress.org/sttcl/vol43/iss2/31.

Contributions about Teaching

“C’est la rentrée: The First Day of the Semester and the Importance of First Impressions.” The Online Teaching Resource, University of Miami, vol. 2, no. 8. August 2022.

“Community is so important for teaching.” ACUE Community. 20 July 2020. community.acue.org/blog/community-is-so-important-for-teaching.  

Flaherty, Colleen. “Zoom Boom.” Inside Higher Education. 29 April 2020. https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/29/synchronous-instruction-hot-right-now-it-sustainable

“Reaching out to Struggling Students, Virtually.” ACUE Stories. 23 April 2020. acue.org/stories/connecting-as-a-teacher-and-fellow-student.  

Podcast with Bonni Stachowiak. “Theory vs Practice.” Teaching Higher Ed, teachinginhighered.com/podcast/theory-vs-practice/.  

Other Publications and Public Scholarship

“Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov” Twentieth Century and Contemporary American Literature in Context, edited by Linda De Roche, ABC-CLIO, 2021.

“Rediscovering Dany Bébel-Gisler.” Women in French Blog. 28 September 2020. womeninfrench.org/Blog/9260275.

“Pasta e Fagioli” MLA Members Cook! Cherished Recipes Inspired by Literature. Modern Languages Association of America, 2018, p. 14.

 “Dai tendoni del Circo Equestre Sgueglia al palco del Napoli Teatro Festival.” Critico per un giorno, Napoli Teatro Festival, 2013. community.vodafone.it/t5/Archivio-News/Dai-tendoni-del-Circo-Equestre-Sgueglia-al-palco-del-Napoli/ba-p/1034325.