Martina Giuliano

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

University of Oklahoma (2025-present)

• MLLL 3353: Italian and Italian American Mafia: A History of Violence through Literature and Cinema
• ITAL 3853: Readings in Italian Literature and Culture
• ITAL 4970-200: Italian Fascism
• ITAL 4970-300: Made in Italy:  Italian Fashion

University of Wisconsin-Madison 

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

Conference Presentations

• Black, Italian, and In-between: Intersectionality and the Politics of Belonging in Djarah Kan’s Ladri di dent, PAMLA, San Francisco, CA, November 2025.
• L’amore molesto: Rediscovering Naples – A Journey Back in Time in a “Troubling” city, PAMLA, Portland, OR, October, 2023.
• Amara Lakhous, Italian Postcolonial Studies. Zoom Guest Lecture, “Migrant Voices: Framing Italian Postcolonial Society”. University of California-Riverside, Department of Comparative Literature & Linguistics; May 2023.
• Voices from the Margins: Exploring Narratives of Urban Space in La Haine and Zero, 36th GAFIS Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, March, 2023
• Food’s Culture Between Tradition and Hybridization in Amara Lakhous’ Novels, NEMLA, University of Buffalo, NY, Niagara Falls, March, 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, 2023.
• Graduate Student Professional Workshop “Student Engagement in the Virtual L2 Classroom,” University of Wisconsin Madison, March, 2021.

Publications

• “Food’s culture between Tradition and Hybridization in Amara Lakhous novels” in Erratic Eating: A Transcultural Exploration of Non-Normative Bodies, Sexualities, and Space. Rutgers University. (Forthcoming)

Awards and Achievements

• Chancellor Graduate School Fellowship for the advancement of Phd Candidates in their graduate studies during one semester of the 2024 – 2025 academic year
• 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