Dr Adalgisa Giorgio

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Dr Adalgisa Giorgio holds an Honorary Senior Lectureship in Italian Studies at the University of Bath after recently retiring from an Associate Professorship in the same university. She has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Centre for the Study of Women’s Writing (CCWW) at the Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (formerly IMLR) since its foundation in 2009 and coordinates the Italian author pages of the Centre. She is also a member of the editorial board of the Institute’s Journal of Romance Studies and of Italian Culture, the journal of the American Association of Italian Studies (AAIS). Her main areas of research are post-1968 Italian women’s writing, especially Fabrizia Ramondino and Marosia Castaldi; narratives of motherhood and the mother-daughter bond; post-1993 narratives on Naples; and the Italian diaspora in New Zealand. The following publications ensued from the activities of the AHRC-funded ‘Motherhood in post-1968 European Literature Network’ of the CCWW: a co-edited special section of Women’s Studies International Forum (2015) on mothering and migration in Europe; a special section of the Journal of Romance Studies (2015) on motherhood and work in Italy; the co-edited volume Motherhood in Literature and Culture: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Europe (Routledge 2018). Her articles on Māori-Italian identities have appeared in the New Zealand Journal of Psychology (2019) and Social Identities (2020). She is currently supervising two PhD students working on African women writers and the 18th-century opera singer Margherita Durastanti and her London season.