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Danila Cannamela

Title

Assistant Professor of Italian

Department

French and Italian

Information

  • (207) 859-4405
  • [email protected]
  • (207) 859-4405
  • Lovejoy 313

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
IT126 Italian II A
IT126 Italian II B
IT127 Italian III A
IT127 Italian III B
IT141 Introduction to Italian Literary Studies: Poets, Lovers, Revolutionaries A

Education


Ph.D., Italian Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., Experiential Marketing, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
M.A., Laurea Specialistica in Lettere Moderne, Università degli Studi di Milano
B.A., Laura Triennale in Lettere, Università degli Studi di Milano

Areas of Expertise

  • Modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture

  • Noir, pulp, sci-fi literature

  • Environmental Humanities

  • Gender Studies

  • Italian cinema

  • Posthumanism

  • Ecopoetics

 

Current Research

My second book-length project ("A Pastoral Cookbook") explores pastoral beauty as a traditional recipe that has evolved into contemporary Italian ecopoetics.


I co-edited a volume, Italian Trans Geographies (forthcoming Oct. 2023) that retraces stories of trans people within the Italian peninsula and along diasporic routes. I have also been conducting research on constructs of gender, nature, and sense of place in Italian culture, through the lens of queer ecology, trans studies, and feminist environmentalism.

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