AATI@MLA 2019

Queering Italian and Italian American Studies

Session Organizer & Chair: Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

• Paolo Frascà, University of Toronto, (paolo.frasca@mail.utoronto.ca)  “Educastrazione, transessualità, and the Origins of (Italian) Queer Thought 
• Ryan Calabretta-Sajder, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, (calabre@uark.edu) “Queering the Body in Italian Cinema”
• Lisa Dolasinski, Indiana University Bloomington, (ldolasin@indiana.edu) “Queer Italy Onscreen: Trans*gressing Boundaries of Gender, Sexuality, and Nation in Recent Italian Films of Migration”
• Sara Mattavelli, College of William and Mary, (saramattavelli@gmail.com) “Gender Fluidity and Queerness in Ferrante’s Novels”