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R Pickering-Iazzi

  • Professor Emerita, French, Italian & Comp Literature

Education

Ph.D., University of Washington

Research Interests

Italian literature of the 19th and 20th Century, film, and colonial discourses of the 1930s.

Biographical Sketch

Teaching Interests 19th and 20th Century Italian literature and culture; cultural and feminist theory.

Selected Publications

Pickering-Iazzi, R.. Editor of book The Italian Antimafia, New Media, and the Culture of Legality Ed. Pickering-Iazzi, R.. 2017.
Pickering-Iazzi, R.. “(En)gendering Testimonial Bodies of Evidence and Italian Antimafia Culture: Rita Atria” Italian Culture 28.1 (2010): 21-37.
. Donne in Terza Pagina. Racconti di scrittrici italiane 1925-1942 Ed. Pickering-Iazzi, R.. Novi Ligure: Puntoacapo Editrice. 2010.
. Mafia and Outlaw Stories in Italian Life and Literature Ed. Pickering-Iazzi, R.. University of Toronto Press. 2008.
Grimaldi, Laura. Suspicion Ed. Pickering-Iazzi, R.. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. 2003.
Pickering-Iazzi, R.. Politics of the Visible: Writing Women, Culture, and Fascism Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1997.
. Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism, and Culture Ed. Pickering-Iazzi, R.. University of Minnesota Press. 1995.
. Unspeakable Women: Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women During Fascism Ed. Pickering-Iazzi, R.. Feminist Press. 1993.

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