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Giovanni Miglianti is an Assistant Professor at Colby College, specializing in Italian Studies. He previously worked at Yale University, where he collaborated with the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa on his doctoral dissertation. His academic journey includes studies at the Universities of Udine (Laurea in Lettere), Leiden (Erasmus studentship), and Cambridge (MPhil in Comparative Literature), as well as research at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London.
His research focuses on modern Italian literature and cultural history, with particular emphasis on affect theory, Holocaust representations, antifascist exiles in the United States, and Italian dialect poetry. At Yale, he founded and convened the Memory Studies in Modern Europe working group, which organized interdisciplinary events such as the international conference Resistance and Collaboration in Occupied Europe, co-sponsored by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and Yale departments.
Giovanni’s doctoral dissertation titled The Paradox of Affect: Exposure and Modesty in Primo Levi’s Work explores the concept of pudore (modesty, decency, privacy) in Primo Levi’s literary output. He has also held visiting positions at Wesleyan University, where he taught a course on the history of emotions in Italy, and at the MHiC-Lab (Medical Humanities in Context) of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.
