Pleasure of Writing: Critical Essays on Dacia Maraini

Contributors

Contributors Giovanna Bellesia is an associate profe~sor ofItalian at Smith College. Her research focuses on Italiab women writers and on the theory and practice oftranslation. She is the co-translator " . . • I of Dacia Maraini's Un clandestino a bordo (Stowaway on Board). She was also a contributing autlior to the third edition I of the textbook Prego: An Invitation to Italian. .-" -I Paola Carn teaches Italian literature a~d cinema at the University of Bergen, Norway. She has pu1:hished articles on authors ofthe Italian Renaissance and on t1entieth-centUry Italian women writers. Her research interests include the twentiethcentury novel, in particular, historical fibtion. She is currently working on a book manuscript on Anna Banti. Daniela Cavallaro earned her Ph.D. from Northwestern University with a thesis on ~6men's revisidnist theater. She is an assistant professor in the Italian Departfuent at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has pufulished in the fields of the Italian modem novel and women'stheat~randis currently workI ing on a study of Italian women playwrights of the1950s and 1960s. Gabrielle Cody teaches at Vassar Coll~ge in the Department ofDrama and Film: Cody has published ~icles in Theater, Tdr, Women and Peiformance, Peiforming Arts Journal, and Theater Journal. She has just completed a boo~-length study of Marguerite Duras's theater work and is curr~ntly editing a book of performance artist Annie Sprinkle's pbrformance texts and essays entitled Hard Corefrom the Heart.. She co-edited Directing Reconsidered: Essays on American Theater. " Pauline Dagnino teaches at the University ofAuckland, New Zealand. She wrote her Ph.D. thesis, "S!tory and Strategy," on Maraini's later novels. She has published articles on such feminist issues as the mother-daughter" relationship and the quest for subjectivity in Dacia Maraini's work,i and is currently working on strategies Maraini and other contemporary Italian and New Zealand women writers aredevelbping to tell women's stories. 265 Contributors Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld is an associate professor of Italian Studies at Vassar College. She is the author of Born Illiterate: Gender and Representation in Gadda's Pasticciaccio. She has published articles on Marco Risi, Lina Wertmtiller, and Gianni Amelio. She is co-editing (with Aine O'Healy) a collection of essays on representations of the Balkans in recent European cinemas and is currently working on a manuscript on the politics of cultural repression in classic and contemporary Italian cinema. Corrado Federici is an associate professor of Italian at Brock University, St. Catharines, Canada. He has published articles on Luigi Pirandello, Eugenio Montale, Camillo Sbarbaro, Giorgio Bassani, Lamberto Pignotti, Dino Buzzati, and Umberto Eco, as well as on contemporary Italian poetry. He is also the author ofarticles on hypermedia and multidisciplinary approaches to the study of language. A translation of a collection of essays on aesthetics by Luciano Nanni is forthcoming. Giancarlo Lombardi is an assistant professor of Italian at CUNY / College of Staten Island. He has published articles on Alba De Cespedes, Elena Ferrante, Susanna Tamaro, and Margaret Atwood. His book Rooms with a View: Feminist Diary Fiction, 1952-1994 is forthcoming. He is currently writing another book on fictional representations of Italian terrorism. Maria Omella Marotti is'an independent scholar in comparative literature and women's studies. She has taught at the University ofRome, La Sapienza, and the University of California, Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz. She is the author of TheDuplieating Imagination: Twain and the Twain Papers, the editor of 'talian Women Writers from the Renaissance to the Present: Revising the Canon, and co-editor ofIdentita e Scrittura: saggi sull'autobiografia nord-americana, and of Gendering Italian Fiction: Feminist Revisions ofItalian History; Elisabetta Properzi Nelsen is an assistant professor of Italian at San Francisco State University and coordinator of the Italian Program in the same university. She has published on Elsa Morante and Italo Calvino. At present she is working on 266 Contributors a book on Baroque poetry, which has heelher first literarypasI sion since her years at the University of Florence. Aine O'HeaIy is a professor and chair if the Department of Modem Languages and Literatures at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. The author of C~sare Pavese, she has also published articles on Italian literatute, cinema, and feminism in Romance Languages Annual, Fe*inist Studies Review, Italica, Annali d'italianistica, Cinefocu~, and Spectator. She is currently working on a study of the dis¢ourses of gender and nation...