Tristana Rorandelli

BA (magna cum laude), Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence, Italy. MA, PhD (with distinction), New York University. Areas of specialization: 20th-century Italian women’s writings; modern Italian culture, history, and literature; fascism; Western medieval poetry and thought. Recipient of the Julie and Ruediger Flik Travel Grant, Sarah Lawrence College, for summer research, 2008; the Penfield fellowship, New York University, 2004; and the Henry Mitchell MacCracken fellowship, New York University, 1998-2002. Publications: “Nascita e morte della massaia di Paola Masino e la questione del corpo materno nel fascismo,” Forum Italicum (Spring 2003). Translations, “The Other Place” by Barbara Serdakowski and “Salvation” by Amor Dekhis in Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy (editors Graziella Parati and Marie Orton, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). SLC, 2001-2002, 2004, 2005–