
- rpi2@uwm.edu
- Curtin Hall 789
- CV
Robin Pickering-Iazzi
- Professor, Department of Global Studies (Italian Program)
Education
Ph.D., University of Washington
Teaching Interests
19th and 20th Century Italian literature and culture; cultural and feminist theory.
Research Interests
Italian literature of the 19th and 20th Century, film, and colonial discourses of the 1930s.
Recent Publications
Pickering-Iazzi, R. Dead Silent: Life Stories of Girls and Women Killed by the Italian Mafias, 1878-2018. French, Italian and Comparative Literature Faculty Books, 2019.
Pickering-Iazzi, R. The Mafia in Italian Lives and Literature: Life Sentences and Their Geographies. University of Toronto Press, 2015.
Pickering-Iazzi, R. ed. Donne in terza pagina. Racconti di scrittrici italiane 1925-1942. Novi Ligure: Puntoacapo Editrice, 2010.
Pickering-Iazzi, R. "(En)gendering Testimonial Bodies of Evidence and Italian Antimafia Culture: Rita Atria," Italian Culture 28.1 (2010): 21-37.
Pickering-Iazzi, R. ed. Mafia and Outlaw Stories in Italian Life and Literature, Trans. Robin Pickering-Iazzi. University of Toronto Press, 2007.
Grimaldi, Laura. Suspicion. Trans. Robin Pickering-Iazzi. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003.
Pickering-Iazzi, R. "Ways of Looking in Black and White: Female Spectatorship and the Miscege-national Body in Sotto La Croce Del Sud." In Reviewing Fascism: Italian Cinema 1922-1943. Eds. Jacqueline Reich and Piero Garofalo. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002: 194-219.
Pickering-Iazzi, R., ed. Politics of the Visible: Writing Women, Culture, and Fascism. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1997.
Pickering-Iazzi, R., ed. Mothers of Invention: Women, Italian Fascism, and Culture. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1995.
Pickering-Iazzi, R., ed. Unspeakable Women: Selected Short Stories Written by Italian Women During Fascism. Trans. Robin Pickering-Iazzi. Feminist Press, 1993.