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.
italians@sas.upenn.edu 215.898.6040
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