Education
Ph.D. candidate in Italian Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA Italian Studies, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MA Linguistics and Web Technology, University Marburg, Germany
BA Linguistics and Cultural Mediation, Orientale University of Naples, Italy
About Valentina
Valentina is a doctoral student and teaching assistant in the Department of Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in Modern \ Contemporary Italian Literature and Environmental Humanities. Her current research interests include Posthumanism, Animal Studies, Ecofeminist Theology, and Multispecies Relationship. Valentina is currently working on her research dissertation focusing on the study of hybridity and metamorphosis as tools for literary representation of marginalized identities, human-nature relationship, and spirituality in the work by the Twentieth-century Italian novelist Anna Maria Ortese.
Publications
Graziuso, V. (2023).
Convenzioni matrimoniali, emancipazione e consenso femminile in epoca medioevale: La voce della Compiuta Donzella di Firenze. Forum Italicum.
Conferences
Trascendenza ed etica della compassione in «Alonso e i visionari» di Anna Maria Ortese. The Canadian Association for Italian Studies (CAIS) - Annual Conference. Campus MIL, University of Montreal, May 4 - 7, 2023.
Awards & Honors
2021 Dana B. Drake Award for Excellence in Teaching Italian
Typical Courses Taught
ITAL 101 – Elementary Italian I
ITAL 102 – Elementary Italian II
ITAL 203 – Intermediate Italian I
ITAL 204 – Intermediate Italian II
ITAL 300 – Communicating in Italian: Media, Culture and Society
ITAL 402 – Intermediate Accelerated Italian II
GRC – Graduate Research Consultant for ITAL 320 Cities and Cultures. History, Power, and Ecology - Fall 2022.
GTF – Graduate Teaching Fellow, ITAL 130 – Dante Divine Comedy, Fall 2023
