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Danila Cannamela

Title

Assistant Professor of Italian

Department

French and Italian

Information

Current Courses

CRS Title Sec
IT125 Italian I A
IT125 Italian I B
IT141 Introduction to Italian Literary Studies: Poets, Lovers, Revolutionaries A
IT246 Wild Writing: A Comparative Experiential Approach to Ecopoetics (in English) A
IT248 Feminist and Queer Narratives in Italian Cinema (in English) 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 am currently co-editing a volume, Italian Trans Geographies, 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.