Conference Attendance & Seminar Participation
American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon April 2013
paper presented: “Postcolonialism or Neocolonialism? Visual Narratives of Migration in Italophone Graphic Novels and Comics”
Resistance and Occupation: Department of Romance Languages Graduate Student Conference
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 9-10 November 2012
paper presented: “Testimony and Postcolonial Identity: Storytelling in Igiaba Scego’s autobiography La mia casa è dove sono and Gabriella Ghermandi’s novel Regina di fiori e di perle”
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference
Seattle University Seattle, Washington 19-21 October 2012
paper presented: “Testimony and Postcolonial Identity: Igiaba Scego’s Autobiography La mia casa è dove sono”
New Echoes and Voices in Italian Studies (NEVIS) Conference-- Echi Oltremare The Other Inside and Out: Italy and the Mediterranean
Rome, Italy 14-16 June 2012
paper presented: “Narratives of Otherness: Anthropology, Photography, and Literature of the Italian Colonial Period”
Notre Dame Rome Seminar
Rome, Italy 13 June-1 July 2011 attendance in program on “Italia ‘Glocale’/ ‘Glocal’ Italy”
Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Convention
Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Jersey April 2011
paper presented: “Queer Identity under Mussolini’s Regime: Historical Testimony of Discrimination”
Borders and Boundaries: Italian Women Writers of the 19th, 20th and 21st Century
St. Andrews University St. Andrews (Fife), Scotland March 2011
paper presented: “Migration and postcolonial narrative in the works of Erminia Dell’Oro and Marinette Pendola”
Graduate Student Research Forum: Crossing Borders
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon April 30, 2010
participation in panel: “Traversing the Humanities”
SYNAPSIS: European School for Comparative Studies
Bertinoro (FC), Italy September 2009 attendance in program on “Shadows”
participation in seminar Out of the Shadows: Cinema and “The Other” conducted by Ian Christie and Giulio Iacoli
American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference
St. John’s University, Manhattan New York City May 2009
papers presented: “Testimony, identity and migration in the works of Erminia Dell’Oro” and “Politics and narrative strategies in Caparezza’s concept albums”
Australasian Centre for Italian Studies (ACIS) Fifth Biennial Conference: “L’Italia nella Grande Migrazione”
University of Auckland Auckland, New Zealand February 2009
paper presented: “Identity, language, and paternal ties in the (post)colonial female subject: A study of Erminia Dell’Oro’s L’abbandono and Hélène Cixous’ autobiographical works”
American Association of Italian Studies/ American Association of Teachers of Italian (AAIS/ AATI) Joint convention
Taorminia, Italy May 2008
papers presented: “Caparezza: hip hop artist and blogger ‘impegnato’” and “Elements of feminist theory in the works of Rossana Campo and Silvia Ballestra”
SYNAPSIS: European School for Comparative Studies
Bertinoro (FC), Italy September 2007 attendance in program on “Scandal”
participation in seminar Uno scandalo a Colono conducted by Adalinda Gasparini
Romance Studies 2006 “Literature Matters” Conference
University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon October 2006
paper presented: “Women Writing Autobiography: A study of Veronica Giuliani,
Angela Veronese and Cecilia Ferrazzi”
SYNAPSIS: European School for Comparative Studies
Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy September 2006 attendance in program on “Exile”
participation in seminar In esilio dalla storia conducted by Roberto Bigazzi