Martina Giuliano

Credentials: PhD Candidate in Italian

Email: mgiuliano2@wisc.edu

Address:
710 Van Hise Hall
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Fall 2024 Office Hours
Mondays/Wednesdays: 1:20-2:20pm or by appointment

Education

  • M.A., Italian Language and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • B.A., Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy

Research Interests

Contemporary Italian literature, Postcolonial studies, Black Italy, Gender & Sexuality studies, and Food Studies

Dissertation Title

The de-construction of the Italian Postcolonial Identity. From Colonialism to Black Italy”

Courses Taught

  • First semester Italian (ITA 101)
  • Second Semester Italian – including three intensive courses (ITA 102)
  • Fourth Semester Italian (ITA 204)
  • Machiavelli and His World (ITA 365)
  • Of Demons and Angels: Dante’s Divine Comedy in Translation (LITRANS 253)

Conference Presentations

  • L’amore molesto: Rediscovering Naples – A Journey Back in Time in a “Troubling” city, PAMLA, Portland, OR, October 26-29, 2023
  • Voices from the Margins: Exploring Narratives of Urban Space in La Haine and Zero, 36th GAFIS Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 31-April 1, 2023
  • Food’s Culture Between Tradition and Hybridization in Amara Lakhous’ Novels, NEMLA, University of Buffalo, NY, Niagara Falls, March 23-26, 2023
  • The Narration of the Urban Space of the Banlieue and Barrio in La Haine and Zero NEMLA, University of Buffalo, NY, Niagara Falls, March 23-26, 2023

Distinctions

  • Alfred and Isabella Panzini Galpin Fund Scholarship for Teaching Excellence as a graduate student in Italian, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022-2023
  • Christopher and Margaret Kleinhenz Italian Scholarship for Service as a graduate student in Italian, UW-Madison, 2022-2023
  • Christopher and Margaret Kleinhenz Italian Scholarship for Teaching Excellence as a graduate student in Italian, UW-Madison, 2020-2021
  • Elizabeth Brown Memorial Scholarship for Italian Scholarship for Teaching Excellence as a graduate student in Italian, UW-Madison, 2020-2021
  • George Hefke French and Italian Scholarship for Teaching Excellence as a graduate student in Italian, UW-Madison, 2019-2020
  • Nomination for the Early Excellence in Teaching Campus-Wide Teaching Assistant Award, UW- Madison, October 2019
  • Eunice Clark Smith Scholarship, First Year Achievement, UW-Madison 2018-2019