Laura Salsini
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Degrees
- Ph.D., Italian Literature, Indiana University
- M.A., Italian Literature, Indiana University
- B.A., Journalism, Marquette University
Biography
Laura Salsini is a Professor of Italian. Her professional interests include 19th and 20th century Italian literature, with a specialization in female writers, as well as Italian-American film and literature. She teaches language, literature, and culture courses, as well as courses in translation. Her scholarly work includes the monographs Gendered Genres: Female Experiences and Narrative Patterns in the Works of Matilde Serao and Addressing the Letter: Italian Women Writers’ Epistolary Fiction, as well as the co-edited collections Writing and Performing Identity in Italian Culture and Resistance, Heroism, Loss: World War II in Italian Film and Literature.