Teaching

 

McGill University

  • Introduction to Film History

  • Classics of Italian Cinema

  • Cinema and the Visual

  • Italian Pop Culture

  • The European Avant-Gardes: Art and Politics from War to War

  • Literary composition

Harvard University

  • Cultural Migrations Between Africa and Italy

  • On the Road: Journeys in Italian Cinema

  • Italian Pop: Comics, Mass media, Folk Culture

  • Picturing Place: Landscape, Literature, and Cinema from the Eighteenth through the Twentieth Century

  • Cinema for a Changing Earth: The Films of Michelangelo Antonioni

  • The Marvelous, Fantastic, Magic, and Uncanny in Italian Culture

  • The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography and Literature

  • Modernismi Italiani: D’Annunzio, Svevo, Pirandello e oltre

  • Italy in Motion: Cinema, History and National Identity

  • Intimate Architectures: Dwelling and Subjectivity in the Works of Italian Women Writers

  • The Fantastic from Dante to Calvino and Beyond

  • Between Africa and Italy: Literature, Film and Cartoons

  • Literary Cityscapes: Italian Urban Life and Cultural Change, 1904-2004

  • After History: Fable, Myth and Nature in Italian Post-War Literature

  • Italian Theory and Literary Criticism

  • Svevo e i Triestini: Scrivere la città e esserne scritti

  • Italo Calvino and the Place of Literature

  • Italian Feminisms: Culture, theory and Narratives of Difference

University of Colorado, Boulder 

  • Undergraduate Courses

    • Italian Romanticism: From Vico to the Scapigliatura

    • Italian Feminisms: Theory, Culture and Narratives of Difference

    • Readings in Italian Literature I and II

  • Graduate Seminars

    • Introduction to Literary Theory

    • Writing Through the City: Literature and the Urban Experience

    • Rereading Freud

    • Cultural Utopias: The Poetics and Politics of Space