Dana Renga specializes in Italian film and twentieth and twenty first century Italian cultural studies. Research interests include: Mafia movies (both Italian and American,) Italian fascism and relations with Nazi Germany, representations of terrorism, immigration and gender in Italian film. She is working on a book called Unfinished Business on trauma, gender and mourning in Italian mafia films and an edited volume entitled Mafia Movies: A Reader (University of Toronto Press). She has published (in print or forthcoming) on the writers Italo Calvino, Elsa Morante and Andrea Zanzotto, on the directors Federico Fellini, Roberto Benigni, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Marco Bellocchio and Lina Wertmuller and on contemporary Italian poetry, French and Italian Holocaust Cinema and Italian Cinema under Fascism. Professor Renga teaches courses in Italian at both the undergraduate and graduate level and regularly teaches one GEC course in English on Italian Cinema (IT221.)
