Dr Catherine Ramsey-Portolano

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Catherine Ramsey-Portolano (Italian Literature PhD, University of Chicago) is Associate Professor and Director of the Italian Studies and Modern Languages Program at The American University of Rome. Her fields of research are gender studies, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature and Italian cinema, with special focus on women writers and the portrayal of women in literature and film. In addition to numerous peer-reviewed articles and essays in the above fields, her books include Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, co-edited with Sharon Hecker); Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question: The Case of Neera (Routledge, 2020); Performing Bodies: Female Illness in Italian Literature and Cinema 1860-1920 (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017), The Future of Italian Teaching: Media, New Technologies and Multi-Disciplinary Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015) and, with Katharine Mitchell, The Italianist Special Issue Rethinking Neera (2010).