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Chiara Ferrari is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). She is also a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her academic career includes previous teaching positions at the College of William and Mary and New York University.
Her research focuses on 20th-century Italian literature, with particular emphasis on:
- Fascism and cultural production
- Gender studies and feminist theory
- Autobiographical writing
- Travel and transnational narratives
- Critical and literary theory
Professor Ferrari is the author of the monograph The Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Fascist Italy: Mussolini, Gadda, Vittorini (University of Toronto Press, 2013) and has co-edited significant scholarly volumes, including Towards a Gendered History of Italian Literature (il Mulino, 2012) and a special issue of Annali d’italianistica on violence (2017). Her work has appeared in prominent journals such as The Italianist, Italica, Forum Italicum, Modern Language Notes, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Although specific recent articles are not listed, her publication record demonstrates sustained scholarly engagement with Italian literary and cultural studies.
Her academic honors and scientific awards are not mentioned in the available text.
Professor Ferrari advises graduate students through her role in the CUNY Graduate Center’s Comparative Literature program, though no specific advisees are listed. She has not received any named grants in the provided information. She is involved in interdisciplinary research initiatives linking literature, gender, and political history.
She is affiliated with research centers and collaborative programs in Italian studies and comparative literature across the CUNY system, contributing to doctoral education and scholarly discourse in her field.
