We are happy to welcome two new graduate students in our section.<\/p>\n
Silvia Raimondi<\/strong> comes from the most beautiful, magnificent city in the world, Rome. She earned a laurea<\/em> (2015) and a Master degree (2016) with honors, in Italian language and literature from the University of Roma Tre. An extract from her first thesis (\u201cIl poeta di teatro<\/em> di Filippo Pananti: notazioni lessicali\u201d), which focuses on the history of the Italian language, has been published in the Italian journal \u00abScaffale aperto\u00bb, by Carocci Editore.\u00a0She has taught Italian and history in a high school in the city of Como and she obtained the DITALS certification, to teach Italian Language as a foreign language, from the Universit\u00e0 per Stranieri di Siena.\u00a0<\/em>At Hopkins, she intends to focus on modern and contemporary Italian literature and cinema, and women\u2019s and gender studies. She has done extensive research on postwar Italian literature dealing with the anti-fascist movement, with a focus on the work of the writer partisan Beppe Fenoglio. In \u00a0her MA thesis, \u201cBetween Epic and Contemporaneity: the Role of the Elderly in Fenoglio\u201d, she explored the connection between contemporary and classic literature and the representation of the figure of the \u00abnon-combatant\u00bb in the anti-fascist resistance literature. She would like to expand her research on Fenoglio, while also exploring the work of other writers such as Elsa Morante, Italo Calvino, Cesare Pavese, Elio Vittorini, Luigi Meneghello, and Renata Vigan\u00f2. She is also interested in studying the ways the resistance has been represented in Italian cinema and continue to be revisited in recent documentary films directed by women directors, addressing women\u2019s participation in the movement.\u00a0Silvia has also done volunteer work in libraries and hospitals to promote the activity of reading among children with difficult socio-economical and educational background and the integration of immigrants in the city of Como.<\/p>\n Samuel Zawacki<\/strong> received a BA in Italian and Linguistics in 2018 followed by an accelerated Master\u2019s degree in Italian Studies in 2019 from New York University. His academic interests lie in Lavender Linguistics, or the intersection between Gender Studies and the study of human language. His Senior Honors Thesis, \u201cFuori dal Binario: Linguistic Gender in the Italian Context,\u201d explores ways in which the Italian linguistic landscape is changing to accommodate non binary individuals. Subsequently, his Master\u2019s Thesis, \u201cQueer Femminista: Alma Sabatini and Feminist Foundations for Linguistic Gender Neutrality in Italian,\u201d explores the similarities between the Feminist movement for linguistic change outlined in Sabatini\u2019s \u201cRaccomandazioni per un uso non sessista nella lingua italiana\u201d and the modern LGBT movement for linguistic gender neutrality.\u00a0In addition to the fifty or so years that Samuel has focused on in his pre-doctoral research, he works reverse chronologically studying gender as far back as the Medieval and Early Modern periods through authors such as Boccaccio, Castiglione, and Dante. He is currently working on a translation of Ferrante Pallavicino\u2018s \u201cil Principe Ermafrodito\u201d and hopes to further expand his view on and the temporal bounds gender study in Italian. Outside of the academic world, Samuel\u2019s main passion is cooking and hosting dinner parties for friends and family. 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