Graziella Parati

Graziella Parati is the Paul D. Paganucci Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College. She has worked in gender studies, migration studies, cultural studies and in particular fascist culture, and environmental humanities.
Her books include:
Waste and Discard Studies: Italy and the Mediterranean co-edited with Damiano Benvegnu’, Marta Cariello, and Matteo Gilebbi (fortcoming 2014)
Contemporary Italian Diversity in Critical and Fictional Narratives co-edited with Marie Orton and Ron Kubati (2021).
Migrant Writers and Urban Space in Italy: Proximities and Affect in Literature and Film (2017).
Italy and the Cultural Politics of WWI (2016) (paperback edition 2023).
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: Definitions, Theory, and Accented Practices (volume 1)
New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies: The Arts and History (volume 2) (2012)
The Cultures of Italian Migration co-edited with Anthony Tamburri (UP 2011).
Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Italy, co-edited with Marie Orton (2007).
Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in A Destination Culture (2005) (paperback in 2014).
Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference co-edited with Rebecca West, (2002).
Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy, (1999).
Public History, Private Stories: Italian Women's Autobiographies, (1996).
She is currently writing a book tentatively titled Unbecoming Fascists: Autobiography and Nation Building.
Talk Information:
I will start by talking about how some former fascists went through a process of “unbecoming “ after WWII, and how other fascists, in particular Julius Evola, wrote themselves into a possible second coming of fascism and have fueled new neo-fascism and neo-nazism. This is a work in progress that may engender a book titled Unbecoming Fascists: Autobiography and Nation Building.