Rossella Di Rosa graduated听cum laude听from the University of Siena in 2008, where she studied Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies. After an inspiring year at Vassar College as a language fellow, she completed her MA and PhD in Italian at Rutgers University. 听
Her academic interests focus on second language acquisition, critical and digital pedagogy as well as modern and contemporary Italian literature, especially women鈥檚 writing. Her research lies at the intersection of literature, ecocriticism, posthumanism, new materialism, and gender studies. She has published several articles that analyze nomadic spaces and subjectivities, discuss the definition of nature, and explore the interdependence between human and nonhuman beings in Giacomo Leopardi, Anna Maria Ortese, Elsa Morante, Mar铆a Zambrano, Fabrizia Ramondino, and Elena Ferrante.
Before joining the University of 桃子视频sylvania, she taught Italian and Spanish at Rutgers and the University of Georgia.
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Ph.D. Italian, Rutgers University
MA, Italian, Rutgers University
MA cum laude, Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies, University of Siena
BA, Foreign Languages and Literature (English and Spanish), University of Siena
- Second Language Acquisition & Foreign Language Teaching
- Critical and Digital Pedagogy
- Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature
- Women's Writing
- Gender Studies
- Literary Ecology
- Posthumanism
- New Materialism听
- ITALIAN 0092 - Black Italy (First Year Seminar)
- ITALIAN 1000 - Advanced Italian I
- ITALIAN 1200 - Advanced Italian II
- ITALIAN 3401 - Black Italy and Black Italians
- ITALIAN 3508 - Italian Literature: Italian Women Writers
- ITALIAN听3508 - Italilan Literature: Italian Ecologies
- ITALIAN 5910 - Italian Teaching and Learning
- ITAL/FREN/GERMN 5990 - Teaching and Learning
鈥淭ying Thoughts and Forging Bonds in Language and Content Instruction. Redefining Literacy Through Social Annotation Tools.鈥 , pp. 29-39, (co-authored with Julia Heim).
鈥淓nhancing Foreign Language Learning and Interaction Inside and Outside the Classroom Through Video Streaming Services.鈥 , pp. 4-10.
鈥淢aterial and Trans-corporeal Identities in Ferrante鈥檚 and Atwood鈥檚 Narratives.鈥 MLN: Elena Ferrante in a Global Context, edited by Tiziana de Rogatis et al, 136.1, 2021, pp. 143-163.
鈥淲omen鈥檚 Eccentric and Nomadic Cooking in Fabrizia Ramondino鈥檚 础濒迟丑茅苍辞辫颈蝉: When Food Tastes Good and Subversive.鈥 Food and Women in Italian Literature, Culture, and Society: Eve鈥檚 Sinful Bite, edited by Claudia Bernardi et al., Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp. 116-127.
鈥淔rom Nature to Matter: Leopardi鈥檚 anti-anthropocentrism and inchoate proto-ecological thinking.鈥 Mapping Leopardi, Poetical and Philosophical Investigations, edited by Emanuela Cervato et al., Cambridge Scholars, 2019, pp. 409-432.
鈥淧ortrait of Antigone as Idiot Savant: Elsa Morante鈥檚 La Serata a Colono.鈥 The Italianist 38.1, 2018, pp. 27-47.
鈥溾赌La questione animale鈥 di Anna Maria Ortese: Alonso e i visionari e l鈥檈tica del soccorso.鈥 Ecozon@ 7.2, 2016, pp. 134-148.
鈥Divenire animale 鈥 divenire Elisa. La centralit脿 del gatto Alvaro in Menzogna e Sortilegio.鈥 Carte Italiane 2.10,
2015, pp. 89-105.
鈥Anna Maria Ortese e Mar铆a Zambrano: da 鈥榣uoghi d鈥檈silio鈥 per una filosofiapoetica.鈥 Italica 92.1, 2015, pp. 62-82.