EDUCATION
- M.A., Italian Language, Literature & Cinema, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- B.A., Italian Studies & International Relations, Wheaton College (MA)
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Currently, I am a Ph.D. candidate in Italian language, literature, and cinema at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. My research focuses on Neapolitan feminist and transfeminist film, specifically on the intersection of myth, performance, spectatorship, and selfhood in the avant-garde feminist films of Lina Mangiacapre and Le Nemesiache. Research interests include: self-representation, sex, and sistership in Italian literature and film, the Neapolitan feminist avant-garde, film theory, sexuality studies, nonbinary aesthetics, ecofeminist theory, mad and disability theory, subaltern studies, and aging studies.
DISSERTATION TITLE
The Personal is Political in Naples: Lina Mangiacapre’s Avant-Garde Feminist Films
COURSES TAUGHT
- Italian 101 (First-Semester Italian) – instructor
- Italian 102 (Second-Semester Italian) – instructor
- Italian 202 (Accelerated Third- & Fourth- Semester Italian) – instructor
- Italian 203 (Third-Semester Italian) – instructor
- Italian 204 (Fourth-Semester Italian) – instructor
- Italian 253 (Medieval Literature in Translation: Angels, Demons, and Dante’s Divine Comedy) – grader
- Italian 254 (Modern Italian Literature in Translation: Existentialism, Fascism, and Resistance) – grader
- Italian 360 (French & Italian Literature in Translation: Renaissance Online) – grader
- Italian 460 (Italian Cinema) – grader
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Papers Presented at Professional Conferences:
- “Breaking the Lock with Avant-Garde Film: Lina Mangiacapre’s Feminist Collaboration at the Asylum.” American Association for Italian Studies: May 28-June 6, 2021. Online.
- “Subversive Sistership of the Self in Lina Mangiacapre’s Literary and Filmic Underground.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention: March 11-14, 2021. Online.
- “Beyond the Binary: Androgyny in Lina Mangiacapre’s Neapolitan Feminist Faust.” Northeast Modern Language Association Convention: March 5-8, 2020. Boston, MA.
Papers Presented at Graduate Student Conferences:
- “Painted Faces and Creative Costume in the Feminist Film Collective’s La lotta non è finita.” Graduate Association of French & Italian Students “Skin” Symposium: April 6-7, 2018. Madison, WI.
- “Vocabulary in Context: Infusing Information Gap Activities with Culture.” Kaleidoscope Conference: March 8, 2018. Madison, WI.
- “Murder by Brooch: A Social and Sexual Crossroads for the Woman Outlaw.” Graduate Association of French & Italian Students “Turning Points” Symposium: March 31-April 1, 2017. Madison, WI.
PUBLICATIONS
- “Continuation and Conclusion of an Interpretation of Dante’s Vita nuovaXXII, 9-16,” by Furio Brugnolo, trans. by Hilary Emerson, in Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Early Modern Texts:Essays in Honor of H. Wayne Storey, ed. by Beatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni, and Jelena Todorović (Boston: Brill, 2021). English Translation.
- Giorgia Alù, Journeys Exposed: Women’s Writing, Photography and Mobility, rev. by Hilary Emerson, Annali d’italianistica 38 (2020): 219. Book Review.