Italian Studies

Evelyn Ferraro's scholarly work addresses questions of human mobility, identity crises, exclusion, and practices of resistance in narratives that belong to and expand the framework of Italian Studies, along with challenging essentialist notions of italianità/italianness and national belonging. At Brown, she wrote a dissertation on the American experience of Italian Jewish writer Ebe Cagli Seidenberg, under the direction of M. Riva. Articles based on this work appeared in Carte Italiane and NeMLA Italian Studies. She is currently investigating issues of refugee women and coalition politics in Cagli’s testimonial writing.