AISNA (Associazione Italiana Studi Nord Americani)
Rotary Club International
Relationship between fact and fiction in the contemporary American novel
Women's writing
TV series
2016 – ‘This house is a battlefield now: War of the Sexes and Domestic Violence in Van Badham’s Kitchen and Warren Adler’s The War of the Roses’, in Performing Gender & Violence in Contemporary Transnational Contexts, volume edited by Maria Anita Stefanelli, Led Edizioni, Milano, pp. 77-99.
2017- “A Creature of Another’s Will: il conflitto con il sé nei rapporti di potere fra uomo e donna in Blonde di Joyce Carol Oates”, in Rocco Bochicchio, Valeria Ducatelli, Valentina Lidano (eds.) Conflitti: Antichità, Archeologia, Storia, Linguistica, Letteratura (Vol. 1), UniversItalia, Roma, pp. 493-504.
2017- “Il Soft Power: Storytelling Politico e Letteratura”, in Paolo Wulzer, La dottrina Obama: La politica estera americana dalla crisi economica alla presidenza Trump, Textus, L’Aquila,pp. 343-357.
2017- “Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates: A Reconstruction of the Self Beyond Myth”, in Barrientos-Tecun, Dante, Reynes-Delobel, Anne (ed.), Ecritures dans les Amériques au féminin, Presses Universitaires de Provence, Aix-en-Provence.
2017 – ‘Her pragmatic plan of survival: Love, Marriage and Motherhood as Economic Strategies in A Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates’(4,400 words), in Elisabetta Sibilio (edited by) Rappresentazioni artistiche e sociali della povertà, Università degli Studi di Cassino, Cassino, pp. 271-287.
2019- “L’eterno ‘other’: clash culturale, esilio e identità frammentata in tre opere di J.P. Donleavy” in Alter/Ego: Confronti e scontri nella definizione dell’altro e nella determinazione dell’io. Atti del Convegno: Macerata, 21-23 Novembre 2017, EUM (Edizioni Università di Macerata), pp. 370-379.
2019- “Peace, Freedom and Cooperation through the Atlantic Crossin in Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic” in Susanna Nanni and Sabrina Vellucci (ed.) Circolazione di Persone e di idee. Integrazione ed esclusione tra Europa e Americhe, Bordighera Press, pp. 53-68.
2020- “A ‘compendiary’ representation of Marylin Monroe’s Self in Black Dahlia & White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates” in Nino Arrigo, Annalisa Bonomo, Karl Chircop (edited by) Identity navigation: rethinking languages, literatures and cultures between challenges and misinterpretations, Edizioni Sinestesie, pp. 303-316.
2021- "Super-secret spies, living next door: Family and Soft Power in The Americans" in Susan Flynn and Antonia MacKay (edited by), Screening American Nostalgia, McFarland, pp. 80-98.
2021: "Pandemia e serie televisive: il connubio miserabile" in Francesco Maria Petricone, Mind the queue! Evidenze di coronavirus nel mondo, a un anno dalla pandemia, Edizioni Mimesis, pp. 27-31.
2021: A 'Fourth Way' to Tell the Story: Fact and Fiction in Three Novels by Joyce Carol Oates, Peter Lang Publishers.
2022: 'Escape from the Corpus: The Pain of Writing and Illness in Philip Roth's The Anatomy Lesson', Bootheina Majoul and Hanen Baroumi, The Poetics and Hermeneutics of Pain and Pleasure, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 55-62.
2022: 'A complicated landscape in which stories could be generated': Displacemenr and Identity in Aleksandar Hemon's The Book of My Lives, Tina Powell and Patricia Sagasti Suppes (eds.), Transnational American Spaces, Vernon Press, pp. 113-122.
2015: ‘Finestre ed epifanie nella poesia di Raymond Carver: Happiness, Rain, The Window’ in Altre Modernità, 2/2015, pp. 214-224.
2016: ‘Villain or Victim? Il caso Yates in “Dear Husband” di Joyce Carol Oates’ in Altre Modernità, 15/2016, pp. 228-238. 2016- ‘Sylvia Plath beyond the Confessional Poetry: A Close Reading of the Poem ‘On the Decline of Oracles’, (5,270 words) in Polifemo (Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM), n. 11-12, pp. 111-123.
2017: ‘How to Turn a Forgotten Figure of American History into a National and Gender Emblem: Joyce Carol Oates’s Treatment of Mary Jo Kopechne in Black Water’, in Echinox Journal, 33/2017, pp. 240-254.
2017: ‘The Handmaid’s Tale e The Heart Goes Last di Margaret Atwood. Due Città Distopiche a Confronto’, in Amèrica Critica, Vol. 1, n° 2, pp. 33-48.
2018: “Religion, Gender Inequality, and Surrogate Motherhood in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale”, in CoSMo (Comparative Studies in Modernism), n° 12, pp. 95-108.
2018: “Pathological Narcissism in a (Neo)Gothic Setting: Joyce Carol Oates’s ‘Evil Eye’”, in Echinox Journal, vol. 35, pp. 87-100.
2019: “A.M. Homes’s The Safety of Objects: People and Feelings as Objects in the American Suburban Home” in Journal of History and Cultures, Issue 9 (February 2019), pp. 71-81.
2019: “Margaret Atwood’s The Heart goes Last: Panopticism, Discipline, Society, and Ustopia” in Metacritic Journal for Comparative Studies and Theory 5.2 (December 2019), pp. 79-90.
2019: “A cancer on the planet”: Mountaintop Removal and Environmental Crime in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom” in Forum Filologiczne Ateneum 1(7) 2019, pp. 343-356. 2020: “Joyce Carol Oates: Tradurre la muta sofferenza intorno a noi” in L’Indice dei libri del mese, Giugno 2020, p. 17.
2020: "My yesterdays are disappearng and my tomorrows are uncertain": Alzheimer's Disease and the Impossible Survivor Narrative In Lisa Genova's Still Alice". Altre Modernità, n. 24, 2020, pp. 66-78.
2020: "Black Water and Mudwoman by Joyce Carol Oates: Two Drownings in Comparison" in Revell, v. 3, n. 26 (December 2020), pp. 276-291.
2021: "Rivers, Reflections and Memories i Raymond Carver's Where Water Comes Together with Other Water". Comparative American Studies, An International Journal, pp. 1-9.
2015: 'Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, & American Cultural Diplomacy' di Greg Barnhisel in Processi Storici e Politiche di Pace n. 13/14 (2013), pp. 152-4.
2021: 'Cercare la gioia nelle persone amate. Recensione del romanzo Crossroads di Jonathan Franzen' in L'Indice dei Libri del Mese, n 12, p. 17.
November 2019: “Bruno Schulz in the Work of Paolo Caneppele”, Pracownia Schulzowska zaprasza na VI dni schulzowskie: Wyścia z Drohobycza, Department of Philology, Uniwersytet Gdański.
May 2019: “Liminal Identities in the Atlantic Crossing of Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic”, Second Border Seminar, Uniwersytet Gdański.
March 2019: Member of the Scientific Committee of the Second International Scientific and Practical Conference "Language Philosophy and New Trends in Translation and Language Studies", National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kiev (Ukraine).
June 2018: Panel Chair at the Conference “Past (Im)Perfect Continuous- An International Conference on the Narratives of WWII”, Department of European, American and Intercultural Studies of Sapienza University.
June 2018: Panel Chair at the Conference “Measure and Excess”, INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies), (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre).
May 2018: “Three Encounters between Ireland and America in Colum McCann’s TransAtlantic”, CRISA (Centro di Ricerca Interdipartimentale di Studi Americani) conference (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre).
May 2018: “Make Atwood Fiction Again: The Handmaid’s Tale as a Means of Protest”, Sapienza Graduate Forum “The times are they a-changing?” (Centro Studi Americani, Roma).
April 2018: “Is Literature Useful? The Cases of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jonathan Franzen and Margaret Atwood”, RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award) “There is more done with pens than swords: the social function of literature” (Istituto San Leone Magno, Roma).
March 2018: Performing Poetry: Due Voci dalle Sponde dell’Oceano (Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Scuola di Lettere e Filosofia, Sala “Ignazio Ambrogio”).
November 2017: “L’eterno ‘other’: clash culturale, esilio e identità frammentata in tre opere di J.P. Donleavy”, Colloquio Internazionale Interdisciplinare “Alter/Ego: Incontri e Scontri nella definizione dell’altro e nella determinazione dell’io”, Università degli Studi di Macerata.
September 2017: “Freedom and ‘My Bird Problem’: Jonathan Franzen’s Environmental Fiction” 24th AISNA Biennial Conference “The US and the World We Inhabit”, Università degli Studi di Milano.
May 2017- ‘Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde: A Reconstruction of a Disintegrated Identity’, 2nd Graduate Conference “Disintegrating Identities”, La Sapienza Università di Roma (Centro Studi Americani, Roma).
March 2017- Performing Poetry: Eileàn Nì Chuilleanàin e Neal Hall, un dialogo interculturale. (Loggia del Primaticcio, Roma).
October 2016: ‘A climate particularly inhospitable for women: the Power Relations between Men and Women in the 90’s America of Joyce Carol Oates’s Black Water’, 2nd World Conference on Women’s Studies, ‘Ending Gender Disparities through Innovations, Research and Experience: A Brighter Future’ (Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre).
September 2016: ‘A Reversal of the Irish Diaspora: Esilio, Identità Frammentata e Clash Culturale in Tre Opere di J.P. Donleavy’, Conference ‘Flight, Journey and Territories: Analysing the Life Paths of Migrants’ (Università degli Studi di Trento).
June 2016: ‘Parody, Resignification of the Past and Counter-Memory in Joyce Carol Oates’s My Sister, My Love’, Conference ‘Autobiografia, telescopia, temporalità’, Scientific Observatory of the Written, Oral and Filmic Memory and the Autobiographical Patrimony, Mediapolis Europa (Palazzo Antici-Mattei, Roma).
April 2016: ‘Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last: Panopticism and Discipline Society as the New Utopia’, Graduate Conference ‘S/s- Surveillance/Safety’, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’ (Roma). April 2016: Performing Poetry: Neal Hall Medico Poeta su Diseguaglianza e Disumanità, Poetry Day 2016. (Centro Studi Americani, Roma)
September 2015: “An Expatriate View of America: The Hybridism of J.P. Donleavy and the Impossible Nationalism”, AISNA Conference “Harbors” (Naples).
June 2015: ‘A Creature of Another’s Will: il conflitto con il sé nei rapporti di potere fra uomo e donna in Blonde di Joyce Carol Oates’, ‘Conflitti’ Graduate Conference (Università degli Studi di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’)
March 2015: Performing Poetry: Neal Hall, medico-poeta, Poetry Day 2015. (Museo Nazionale dell’Alto Medioevo, Roma)
December 2013: ‘Escape from the Corpus: the Rejection of Literature through Illness in Philip Roth’s The Anatomy Lesson’, ‘Literature and Illness’ Conference (Université de Bordeaux). December 2013: ‘Joyce Carol Oates’s Blonde: Disruption of the Body, Disruption of the Form’, ‘Femmes Dans les Amériques’ Conference (IDA), (Université de Aix-en-Provence).
October 2013: ‘Finestre ed Epifanie nella Poesia di Raymond Carver’, Graduate Conference ‘Finestre: opacità e trasparenze’ (Università di Milano).
