Daniele Santucci

EDUCATION

• B.A., Linguistic and Cultural Mediation, Università per Stranieri di Siena (Italy)
• M.A., Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Università per Stranieri di Siena (Italy)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

20th– and 21st-century Italian Literature, gender and sexuality studies, queer studies, border studies, environmental humanities.

DISSERTATION TITLE

Queer Sexuality: Borders and Environment in Dacia Maraini, Pier Vittorio Tondelli and Melania G. Mazzucco

COURSES TAUGHT

• Italian 101 – First Semester Italian
• Italian 102 – Second Semester Italian
• Italian 203 – Third Semester Italian
• Lit-Trans 410 – Food Cultures of Italy (Grader)
• Italian 230 – Modern Italian Culture

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

• “Friends or Foes: Gendered Environmental Relationships in Italo Calvino’s La Speculazione Edilizia.”The 119th Annual PAMLA Conference, Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian, November 11-13, 2022, Los Angeles (CA).
• “Mourning through Movement in Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Camere Separate.” Graduate Association of French and Italian Students (GAFIS) Symposium, Trauma: Renovation and (Re)action, March 25-26, 2022, Madison (WI).