The Center for Italian Studies

The Department of Romance Languages

at the University of Pennsylvania

 

present a lecture by

Gabriella Romani

Seton Hall University

 

 

Postal Culture:

Epistolary Narratives in Post-Unification Italy

 

 

Thursday, February 12

5:30 pm

Seminar Room

516 Williams Hall

University of Pennsylvania

 

Reception to follow

 

 

Gabriella Romani received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and is Assistant Professor of Italian and Director of the Alberto Italian Studies Institute at Seton Hall University. She has taught at Barnard College and Princeton University. She is the editor of Edith Bruck, Letter to My Mother (MLA, Text and Translation Series, 2006) and co-editor with Antonia Arslan of Writing to Delight: Nineteenth-Century Italian Short Stories by Women Writers (University of Toronto Press, 2007). She has written several articles on Nineteenth-Century Italian Literature, among which “From Letter to Literature: Giovanni Verga, Matilde Serao and Nineteenth-Century Epistolary Fiction” (forthcoming, Modern Language Notes, 2009). She is completing a manuscript on the Postal Culture of Post-Unification Italy.  

 

 

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