Dr Evelyn Ferraro

Profile

Evelyn Ferraro is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Santa Clara University, California. Her scholarship explores the relationships between Italianità perceived and constructed as national belonging and the transnational identities resulting from old and new mobilities. Her teaching and research interests include late 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, culture, and cinema, with a focus on Italy’s global connections, as resulting from migrations (from and to Italy), colonisations, liminal spaces, and cultural crossings. She holds a Laurea in Foreign Languages and Literatures/English (University of Palermo), MAs in Translation and Comparative Literature (University of Essex) and Italian Language and Literature (University of Pittsburgh), and a PhD in Italian Studies (Brown University). She is the recipient of the inaugural 2020 Leonardo Award in the Humanities (Italian Scientists and Scholars of North America Foundation, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and the Leonardo da Vinci Society of San Francisco), the National Italian American Foundation Fellowship, and the American Italian Historical Association Memorial Fellowship.