Associate Professor Susanna Scarparo
Associate Dean (Education) Faculty of Arts
Cassamarca Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies
Qualifications
- MA (Otago University)
- PhD (University of Auckland)
Research interests
- Italian Cinema
- Gender studies
- Comparative literature
- Contemporary women writers
- Life writing
- Migration and mobility
- Italian migration to Australia
Current Research
My research program follows four main trajectories within the broad interdisciplinary field of Italian Studies: Italian cinema, contemporary women writers (with special attention to autobiography and biography), Italian feminist theory (with special attention to sexual difference theory), Migration and diaspora studies (focusing on narratives and life writing),
Currently, I am co-writing a book on Italian women film makers and writing about migration and mobility in contemporary Italian cinema and literature.
Examples of Research Topics Supervised
- The cinema of Nanni Moretti
- Tragedy and postcolonialism in Australian and Italian Literature
- Historical Fictions by Italian Women Writers
- Translation of Australian Literature in Italian
- Women in Italian cinema
- Italian Australian Theatre
- Constructions of self and identity in Australian Italian literature
Current PhD Supervision Topics
- Fabrizio De Andrè – Connecting Music, Culture and Society
- The Unspeakable / Invisible Genre: Defining modern Italian Lesbian Literature
- Freedom to Mother in Contemporary Italian Women Writers
Current MA Supervision Topics
- A community staging its death: two Generations of Italian-Australian theatre
- Construction of cultural identities by third Generation Italo-Australians.
- Finding a voice of one's own in the language of the Other: African Italian Women Writers
Publications
Monographs
Reframing Italy: The New Wave of Italian Women Film Makers, with Bernadette Luciano (in preparation)
Elusive Subjects: Biography as Gendered Metafiction, Leicester: Troubador Publishing, 2005. Introduction in Acrobat PDF format [96 KB] / Table of Contents in Acrobat PDF format / Order details
Edited Volumes
Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Italian Culture: Representations and Critical debates. Italian Studies. 65, n.2. 2010 (Co-edited with Charlotte Ross)
Violent Depictions: Representing Violence Across Cultures, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006. (Co-edited with Sarah McDonald)
Representing Italian Diasporas in Australia: New Perspectives. Special Issue of Studi D'Italianistica nell'Africa Australe/Italian Studies in Southern Africa. Vol.18, n.1. 2005 (Co-edited with Rita Wilson).
Table of Contents in Acrobat PDF format [76 KB]
Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives , Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004. (Co-edited with Rita Wilson)
Table of Contents in Acrobat PDF format [92 KB] / Order details
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
2011:" 'I bambini si guardano': the Documentaries of Costanza Quatriglio" (forthcoming in Studies in the Documentary with Bernadette Luciano)
2011: "Contemporary Italian Women Filmmakers: Reframing the Past, the Present and Cinematic Tradition" in New perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies , Farleigh Dickinson University Press (in press, with Bernadette Luciano)
2010: "The Personal is still Political: Films 'by and for women' by the new documentariste" Italica (vol. 87, n. 3) 488-500 (with Bernadette Luciano,)
2010: "'Vite sospese': Representing Female Migration in Contemporary Italian Documentaries Italian Studies (vol. 65, n. 2) 192-203 (with Bernadette Luciano)
2010: "Gendering Mobility and Migration in Contemporary Italian Cinema" the Italianist (vol. 30) 165-182 (with Bernadette Luciano)
2009: "Italian Proxy Brides in Australia" Altreitalie (vol. 38-39) 85-108
2007: "Back to the Future: the Comencini Sisters and Their Search for a Cinematic language" Studies In European Cinema (vol. 4, no.2) 137-148 (with Bernadette Luciano)
2006: "A Big Happy Family: Violence and Displaced Identities in Italo-Australian Fiction" in Violent Depictions: Representing Violence Across Cultures, Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 32-46.
2005: "In the Name of the Mother: Sexual Difference and the Practice of 'Entrustment.'" Cultural Studies Review (vol. 11, no. 2) 36-48
2005: "La destrezza di guardare oltre": Close-up on the Representation of Women in Silvio Soldini's Le acrobate e Pane e tulipani, with Teresa Tufano, in Studi D'Italianistica Nell'Africa Australe / Italian Studies in Southern Africa (vol. 18, n. 2) 120-143
2005: "Crafting Stories, Speaking Personally: In Conversation with Anna Maria Dell'Oso" Studi D'Italianistica Nell'Africa Australe / Italian Studies in Southern Africa (Vol 18, no. 1)160-180. Interview with Annamaria Dell'Oso. (with Rita Wilson)
2004: "Imagining Homeland in Anna Maria Dell'Oso's Autofictions" in Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives, Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp. 1-8. (with Rita Wilson)
2004: "Re-Thinking the Politics and Practice of Life Writing" in Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives, Newark: University of Delaware Press, pp. 169-182 (with Rita Wilson)
2004: "Feminist Intellectuals as Public Figures in Contemporary Italy" Australian Feminist Studies (vol. 19, no. 44) 201-212.
2004: "Going Public" www.diotimafilosofe.it
2003: "Sposati per procura: an Italian Dreaming" Borderlines: Migrazioni e Identità Nel Novecento. Eds. Jennifer Burns and Loredana Polezzi. Isernia: Cosmo Iannone Editore, pp. 55-62. (with Kerstin Pilz)
2002: "‛Sono uno storico in quanto scrittore': Imagining the Past in Maria Bellonci's Rinascimento Privato." MLN (vol. 117, no. 1) 227-240.
2002: "Artemisia: The Invention of a 'Real' Woman" Italica (vol. 79, no. 3) 305-320.
2002: "Talking Back: Biography as Friendship in Anna Banti's Artemisia" Studi D'Italianistica Nell'Africa Australe / Italian Studies in Southern Africa (vol 15, no. 2) 66-81.
Contact Details
Room: W518 Building 11, Clayton Campus Email: Susanna.Scarparo@monash.edu
Phone: 9905 2222
Fax: 9905 5437
Inquiries: 9905 5223 / 9905 2281