Chiara Ferrari is a specialist in 20-century Italian literature. Her research and teaching interests include fascism and culture, gender studies, autobiography, travel and transnational narratives, and critical theory. She has taught at the College of William and Mary and New York University. She is a member of the Graduate Faculty in the Doctoral Program in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Professor Ferrari is currently working on a book that focuses on the juxtaposition of decorum and social station in narrative portrayals by prominent Italian writers from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Degrees
M.A. New York University
Ph.D. New York University
Professor Ferrari is the author of the book The Rhetoric of Violence and Sacrifice in Fascist Italy: Mussolini, Gadda, Vittorini (U of Toronto P, 2013) co-editor of the volume Towards a Gendered History of Italian Literature (il Mulino, 2012) and of the 2017 edition of Annali d’italianistica’s special issue on violence.
Her work has appeared in The Italianist, Italica, Forum Italicum, Modern Language Notes, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society.
