Stefania Porcelli, Ph.D.
Introduction
Stefania holds a doctoral degree from Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD from the City University of New York. Her research focuses on the intersections between literature, emotions, and history. Her work considers especially the production of Italian women writers of the 20th and 21st centuries. She has taught in Italy, Germany, and the US. She enjoys running, cooking, and editing texts.
Research Interests
- Gender Studies and Environmental Studies
- History of Emotions and Affect Theory
- Language of Politics and Propaganda
- Pedagogy and community building
Courses Taught at Miami
- ITL 101 - Elementary Italian I
- ITL 102 - Elementary Italian II
- ITL 201 - Intermediate Italian I
- ITL 202 - Intermediate Italian II
- ITL/IES 231 - Italian Food Cultures in Context
Education
- Ph.D. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (2020)
- Institute for World Literature, Harvard University (Fifth summer school session, Lisbon, June 22-July 16, 2015)
- Dottorato di Ricerca – Sapienza University of Rome (2008)
Publication
Articles
- “Olga’s Journey in Hell and Back: Echoes of Dante’s Commedia in Elena Ferrante’s I giorni dell’abbandono.” Annali d’Italianistica 39 (2021): 309-336.
- “‘As if he wanted to murder her’: Fear and Anger in La Storia’s Rape Scene.” Close Encounters in War 1 (2018): 65-81.
- “Shakespeare’s Exceptional Violence: Reading Titus Andronicus with Hannah Arendt and Giorgio Agamben,” Analyses/Rereadings/Theories1 (2016): 43-52.
- “Territori di guerra: Elizabeth Bowen, Christa Wolf.” Studi sulla narratività 6 (2008): 51-60.
Book Chapters
- “Elizabeth Bowen’s Wavering Attitude towards WWII Propaganda.” In Propaganda and Rhetoric in Democracy: History, Theory, Analysis, ed. Gae Lyn Henderson and Mary J. Braun, Chicago, Southern Illinois University Press, 2016, pp. 96-117.
- “Lo scandalo della Storia e il romanzo storico: Elsa Morante.” In Asimmetrie Letterarie, ed. Donatella Montini, Rome, Edizioni Nuova Cultura, 2013, pp. 103-131.
- “City of Ghosts: Elizabeth Bowen’s Wartime Stories.” In The Ghostly and the Ghosted in Literature and Film: Spectral Identities, ed. Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson, Newark, University of Delaware Press, 2013, pp. 15-28.
Pedagogy
- (with Nora E. Carr) Teaching Writing in the Humanities, The Teaching and Learning Center of The CUNY Graduate Center, 2021.
Translations
- Dario Gentili, Crisis as Art of Government, London, Verso, 2021.
- Elettra Stimilli, Debt and Guilt, London, Bloomsbury, 201