Adriana Baranello

I was awarded my doctorate by the Department of Italian at the University of California, Los Angeles in June 2014. My dissertation is titled Fillia’s Futurism: Writing, Politics, Gender and Art after the First World War, and it focuses on the Futurist Fillia (Luigi Colombo, 1904-1936), an understudied but vital member in the movement’s later years. My primary research and teaching interests lie in 19th and 20th century literature, film, the visual arts. I take particular interest in the historic avant-garde, and the experimental literature and art from the 50s to the 70s. Female authorship and Italian feminism are primary interests, as are the dynamics and poetics of political engagement.

Since receiving my doctorate, I have taught at UCSB during summer session, 2014, I was a visiting scholar to the Department of Romance Languages at Cornell University for the 2014-2015 academic year, and I have been a lecturer of Italian at the State University of New York, College at Cortland, since Spring 2015.