Giovanni Miglianti

Education

• PhD in Italian Studies, Yale University
• MPhil in Italian Language and Literature, Yale University
• MPhil in European Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge
• Laurea (BA) in Humanities, University of Udine

Areas of Expertise

• Modern Italian Literature, Cinema, and Culture
• Transnational Italian Studies
• Affect Theory
• Memory Studies
• Life Writing
• Representations of the Holocaust
• Literature and Ethnography

Profile

Giovanni Miglianti is a scholar of modern Italian cultures, with a focus on twentieth and twenty-first century Italian literature, cinema, and cultural history. He is the author of several peer-reviewed publications, including articles on Italian Holocaust literature in California Italian Studies, Life Writing, and the Journal of War and Culture Studies, and a pedagogy essay on Italian science fiction and generative AI for Annali d’Italianistica. His doctoral dissertation, completed between Yale University, the New Sorbonne University (Paris 3), and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, analyzed the notion of pudore (a sense of modesty, restraint, and privacy) in Primo Levi’s work. His current book project, Affect and the Holocaust: Vulnerability as Resistance in Lidia Beccaria Rolfi and Primo Levi, expands on this research to rethink Holocaust memory through the lenses of emotion and sexuality.

Before coming to Colby as Assistant Professor of Italian, Giovanni Miglianti taught language and culture courses at Wesleyan University, where he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, and at Yale, where he still serves as faculty member for Yale Alumni College and language coordinator for the Yale Alumni Academy study abroad program in Siena. In the classroom, his teaching explores the intersections of language, literature, and history in transnational Italian cultures, with particular attention to questions of memory, identity, and belonging. He is always glad to meet with students interested in all things Italian and to provide guidance on study abroad opportunities. Please email in advance to confirm a visit during office hours or to schedule an appointment at a different time.