Chiara Ferrari

World Languages and Literatures

Chiara Ferrari is a Visiting Scholar at the Humanities Initiative of New York University. Her research and teaching interests include twentieth century Italian literature, fascism and culture, gender studies, autobiography, travel and transnational narratives, and critical theory. She is the author of the book The Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Fascist Italy: Mussolini, Gadda, Vittorini (U of Toronto P, 2013) and co-editor of the volume Towards a Gendered History of Italian Literature (il Mulino, 2012).