Monja Stahlberger is an Early Career Researcher in German and Austrian Exile Studies and German Studies, and editor of the German author page of the CCWW.
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Dr Teresa Maenza
Lecturer (Creighton University, Omaha)
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Maria Teresa Maenza studied at the University of Catania and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the works of Italian women writers in the 20th century (in particular Aleramo Fallaci, Cerati, Sapienza). She is interested in their narratives of daughterhood and the maternal bond as interpreted through Italian and French feminist theories of sexual difference (Irigaray, Lonzi, Muraro, Cavarero). She also takes into consideration the Jakobsian perspective of literary studies, that is how biography, historical interpretation, rewriting and publication have influenced these authors. Her last essay on Goliarda Sapienza (1924-1996) 'Fuori dall’ordine simbolico della madre: Goliarda Sapienza e Luce Irigaray' appeared in the volume Quel sogno d’essere’ di Goliarda Sapienza. Percorsi critici su una delle maggiori autrici del Novecento Italiano, ed. Giovanna Providenti (2012). She teaches Italian language and cultural studies at Creighton University, where she started the Italian Program and created the Italian minor.
