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Simonetta Milli Konewko

  • Associate Professor, Global Studies (Italian program)

Education

  • PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2007
  • Laurea, Modern Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Urbino (Italy), 1990

Teaching Interests

  • Contemporary Italian Literature and Culture
  • Italian folklore and popular culture

Research Interests

  • Neorealist literature and film 19th and 20th century
  • Italian literature and culture
  • Holocaust studies
  • Theories of compassion
  • Theories of emotions

Related Activities

  • Coordinate Italian immersion weekends

Books

Milli Konewko, Simonetta. L'Italia neorealista. Compassione e identità nazionale nel dopoguerra. Carocci.  2018.

Selected Publications

Milli Konewko, Simonetta. Neorealism and the "New Italy" 978-1-137-54132-1. Ed. Milli Konewko, Simonetta. New York New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. .
Neria De Giovanni. Around the Dinner Table with Grazia: Food and Cooking in the Work of Grazia Deledda. Trans. Simonetta Milli Konewko. UWM Digital Commons, 2020.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. L’Agnese va a morire and La rappresaglia: Highlighting female identity through compassion and shame .
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “Images of work in Collodi’s Pinocchio” Images V. Images of Cultural Values. 5th Annual International Conference. September 2-3, 2015. Istanbul-Turkey Ed. Bernard, VEronika. Images V. Images of Cultural Values. 5th Annual International Conference. September 2-3, 2015. Istanbul-Turkey. . (2016).
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “Emanuele Crialese’s Nuovomondo and the Triumph of the Mediterranean Heritage” Athens Journal of Humanities & Art (2015).
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “Smoke Over Birkenau and Models of Female Compassion” Rivista di Studi Italiani 31.1 Ed. Verna, Anthony. (2013): 471-490.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “La ciociara: la funzione della compassione come critica sociale” Alberto Moravia e la ciociara. Letteratura. Storia. Cinema Ed. Fàvaro, A.. Salerno, Italy: Salerno, Italy: Sinestesie. (2012): 96-106.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “Rossellini’s compassions as social evaluation” Journal of Literature and Art Studies 2.7 (2012): 683-690.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “Виживання в Аушвіці" та узи співчуття у таборах (Survival in Auschwitz and Compassionate Bonds in the Camps)” Holocaust and Modernity 2.9 (2011): 30-53.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “Functions of Compassion in Natalia Ginzburg’s Representation of Traditional Family and Extended Communities” Rivista di Studi Italiani 29.1 Ed. Verna, Anthony. (2011): 110-127.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. “L’Agnese va a morire and Meanings of Compassion in the Female Partisans’ Struggle against German Nazis and Italian Fascists” Forum Italicum 44.2 Ed. Mignone, Mario. (2010): 385-404.