Italian Studies

Martina Lancia

Second-Year Graduate Student

Biography

Martina graduated from Sapienza University of Rome with a BA in International Cooperation (2018), a MA in International Management from LUISS (2019) and a MA in Oral History from Columbia University (2023). For her thesis project at Columbia, Martina interviewed the people closest and dearest to her both in Rome and New York, in an attempt to preserve their memories and life stories.

Martina’s interests vary from anthropology, Italian dialects studies, especially in the area of central Italy, Pasolini’s poetry, Roman peripheries and their history and human aspects, Italian literature in Fascist and Post-War Italy.