Danila Cannamela
Title
Assistant Professor of Italian
Department
French and Italian
Information
- (207) 859-4405
- [email protected]
- 207-859-4405
- Lovejoy 306
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.