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
  • Holocaust studies
  • Italian folklore and popular culture

Research Interests

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

Related Activities

 

  • Coordinator of the Italian program
  • Advisor for students Majoring and Minoring in Italian
  • Faculty Advisor for Circolo Italiano student club
  • Coordinator of Italian Immersion Weekends
  • Member of the Jewish Studies Advisory Committee 
  • Chair of the Milwaukee and Madison Italian Film festival USA Committee
  • Italian Consular Correspondent at the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago
  • Scholarship Chair for the Order of Sons of Italy in America
  • Academic Member of the Literature Research Unit and Visual & Performing Arts Research at the Athens Institute for Education and Research

 

 

 

 

 

 

Books

Milli Konewko, Simonetta, translator, Neria Di Giovanni. Around the Dinner Table with Grazia: Food and Cooking in the Works of Grazia Deledda, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Digital Commons, 2020.        
Milli Konewko, Simonetta, translator. L'Italia neorealistaCompassione e identità nazionale nel dopoguerra. Carocci.  2018.
 Milli Konewko, Simonetta, author. Neorealism and the "New Italy. Compassion in the Development of Italian Identity," New York: Palgrave, 2016.      

Selected Publications

Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "Gender Emergency: Fear of the Forsaken," Journal of Literature and Art Studies, 13 (4), 215-224. DOI, 1017256/2159-5836/2023.04.001, 2023.    
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "A Mediterranean participation in the Work of Pietro Bartolo and Lidia Tilotta," Athens journal of Mediterranean Studies, (10) 8, 1-11, 2022.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta.  "Raccontare il neorealismo e la compassione," Rivista di Studi Italiani, 40 (2), 82-95, 2022
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "Pinocchio, the Emotion of Shame and the Influence of Greek Thought," Athens Journal of Humanities & Art, 7 (2), 121-136, 2020.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "Maria Laurino's Were you always an Italian? And the Sound of Southern Italian Dialect," Rivista di Studi Italiani, 37 (2), 232-238, 2019.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta. "The Garden of Finzi-Continis, Compassion, and the Struggle to Affirm Identity," Journal of Literature and Ar& Art Studies, 8 (4), 539-552, 2018.
Milli Konewko, Simonetta, "La rappresaglia: Highlighting female identity through compassion and shame," in Thomas Craig and Laura A. Salsini (EDS) Resistance, Heroism, Loss. World War II in Italian Literature and Film (pp. 121-137). Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2018.
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. “Survival in Auschwitz and Compassion Bonds in the Camps” Holocaust and Modernity 2. Ed. Tyaglyy, Mikhail. (2011): 13.
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.

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