email: lombardi@mail.csi.cuny.edu

Ph.D. Cornell University. Romance Studies
M.A. Cornell University. Romance Studies

Interests:

• Modern and Contemporary Italian, French, and English Literature
• Feminist and Gender Studies
• Italian and French Cinema
• The diary novel
• Italian Cultural Studies
• Television Studies
• Literary Theory (particular emphasis on Deconstruction)
• Film Theory

Graduate Courses:

Theorizing Italian History, Theorizing Italian Cinema

Deconstructing Decadentism(s): European Fin de Siécle Culture

Technologies of the Self: Sexuality and Gender in a Historical Perspective

Herself Beheld: Deconstructing 20th century Italian Women's Writing

Recent Publications:

Books

Rooms with a View: Feminist Diary Fiction, 1952-1994. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002.

Essays

"Parigi o cara: Terrorism, Exile, and Escape in Contemporary Italian Cinema and Theatre" Annali d'Italianistica 20 (2002): 403-424.

"Can the Price Ever Be Right? Television and Cultural Imperialism in Lamerica" Romance Languages Annual 12 (2001).

"Terrorism, Truth, and the Secret Service: Questions of Accountability in the Italian Cinema of the Stragi di Stato." Annali d'Italianistica 19 (2001): 285-302.

"Sciascia, Moretti, and Tuca Tuca: Teaching Italian Cultural Studies at Smith College" in Italian Cultural Studies. Edited by Graziella Parati and Ben Lawton. West Lafayette: VIA Folios, 2001. 144-159.

"Unforgiven: Revisiting Political Terrorism in La seconda volta." Italica 77.2 (2000): 199-213.

"The Gift of an Italian Feu la Cendre: A Derridean Approach to Quaderno proibito." in Writing Beyond Fascism: Cultural Resistance in the Life and Works of Alba de Cespedes. Edited by Carole Gallucci and Ellen Nerenberg. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000. 198-221.

"A memoria: Charting a Cultural Map for Women's Transition from Preistoria to Storia." The Pleasure of Writing: Critical Essays on Dacia Maraini. Edited by Rodica Diaconescu-Blumenfeld and Ada Testaferri. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2000. 149-164.

"Virgil, Dante, Blade Runner, and Italian Terrorism: The Concept of Pietas in La seconda volta and La mia generazione" Romance Languages Annual 11 (2000): 191-196.

Recent Lectures:

"Cinema d'eccezione. Il terrorismo e la cinematografia italiana." Symposium on the Anni di piombo. Wake Forest University in Venice. December 2005.

"Letters from Istanbul: Journeys of Self-Discovery and Sexual Awakening in Ozpetek's Erotic Trilogy" Second Annual Robert Dombroski Conference. University of Connecticut, Storrs, September 2005

"Portrait of the Terrorist as a Young Woman: Cinematic Representations of the Female Terrorist" La Violenza Illustrata. Cambridge University, November 2004.

"The Fictions of Terrorism" Seminar on Modern Italian Studies. Columbia University, November 2003.

"The Fictions of 9/11" AAIS Convention, Washington, March 2003.

"Belfagor e dintorni: Fear and Death in Italian Television" Italian Cultural Studies Association, Boca Raton, November 2002.

"Glamorizing La storia: Morante and Comencini" AAIS Convention, Columbia, April 2002.

"Strange Bedfellows: Terrorist Organizations and the Secret Service in Italian Cinema" Keynote Address, Entralogos Spring Conference, Cornell University, February 2002.

"A Tale of Two Victims: Naples as Abjected (M)Other in L'amore molesto." SCS Convention, Wahington, May 2001.

"Of Mothers, Language, and Silence: A Psychoanalytic Reading of L'amore molesto." MLA Convention, Washington, December 2000. Smith College, November 2000.

"Di buoni e cattivi maestri. Gli intellettuali e il terrorismo nella fiction italiana." AATI Convention, Boston, November 2000.

"Un posto al sole: Neverending Soap Tales from Naples, Australia." AAIS Convention, New York City, April 2000.

Current Projects:

The Fictions of Terrorism: Cinematic Representations of the Italian Armed Struggle (manuscript in preparation)