Francesca Parmeggiani
Profile
Francesca Parmeggiani holds degrees from the University of Bologna (Italy) and Indiana University-Bloomington (USA). She is Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Fordham University in New York (USA). She teaches 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature and cinema. Her research focuses on contemporary Italian literature and culture with special interests in the interplay of politics and religion in literature and film, women’s writing, and feminist theory. She is the author of a study of the fictional adaptations of Scripture by Italian writers in the 1960s and 1970s, and the co-editor of three volumes on the representation of violence in Italian culture, on poetry and prayer in the Italian literary tradition from the Middle Ages to the present, and on Krzysztof Kieślowski’s TV cycle, The Decalogue. Her articles have appeared in Annali d’Italianistica, Autografo, Cahiers d’études italiennes, Forum Italicum, Italica, Italianistica, Romance Languages, and IMAGES, among other venues. She has been collaborating with Patrizia Guarnieri (History, University of Florence) on the Digital Humanities project, Intellettuali in fuga dall’Italia fascista / Intellectuals Displaced from Fascist Italy as a translator and editor of translations. She is a member of the Global Citizenship Curriculum Project Faculty Working Group.