Sabrina Ovan

Sabrina Ovan is a Professor of Italian at Scripps College, holding the Sara M. Adler Professor of Italian Endowed Chair. She specializes in contemporary Italian literature, film, and theoretical humanities.

• Education: MA and PhD in Comparative Literature from University of Southern California

Research Focus: Her work examines intersections between Italian literature and cinema, particularly through lenses of labor precarity, Futurism, and the New Italian Epic movement. She explores philosophical concepts like transindividuality in Italo Calvino's works and political economy in literary narratives.

Notable Publications: Focus on 20th-century Italian cultural theory, historical films, and cognitive capitalism. Key themes include the portrayal of social movements in literature and the paranoid cityscape in Giallo films.