Dr. Stefania Lucamante will discuss how Italian women writers transmitted a gendered perspective on the devastating effects of Italy’s 1938 racial laws and the Holocaust. She will probe how their works validate notions of collaboration and understanding between fictional writing and the (gendered) rewriting of historical events.

Dr. Lucamante completed her graduate studies in Rome and then lived in Milan and Berlin before moving to the United States of America. After curatorial training at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, she studied Comparative Literature at The Catholic University of America, also in Washington, where she is now an Associate Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, teaching undergraduate courses in culture, literature, and film studies.

Supported by the Clara and Morton Richmond Endowment

In cooperation with the Italian Club of Ramapo College