Michela Bertossa
Associated Faculty in Italian
she/her/hers
208 Hagerty Hall
1775 College Rd.
Columbus, OH 43210
Office Hours
By appointment.
Areas of Expertise
- 19th - 21st century Italian Literature and Culture
- Italian Cinema
- Feminist and Gender Studies
- Biopolitics
- Medical Humanities
- Transnational Studies
Education
- PhD in Italian Studies, The Ohio State University, 2025
- MA in Italian Studies, The Ohio State University, 2021
- MA in Italian Language and Literature, University of Zurich, 2019
- BA in Italian Language and Literature, University of Zurich, 2016
Publications
Bertossa, Michela (2024). “From Mater Dolorosa to Mater Degenerata: Sacrifice and Subversion in Deledda’s Cenere and Duse’s Film.” Italian Studies, 1–13 https://doi.org/10.1080/00751634.2024.2383902
Bertossa, Michela, Gianangeli, Lawrence, Peretti Luca and Enrico Zammarchi, (2021). “Timira, romanzo meticcio e stratificato”. Forum Italicum, 55(1), 68–84. https://doi.org/10.1177/0014585820988509
Recent Conference Presentations, Invited Lectures, Interviews
“Disrupting the Narrative. Reimagining Motherhood in “The Good Mothers””, Graduate Students Association of Italian Studies Conference 2024, University of Toronto, November 2024
“Scandalous Mothers and Eugenic Fantasies in Negroni’s L’avvoltoio (1912)”. Panel organizer and presenter American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) Annual Conference, Sorrento, Italy, June 2024
“Donne Degeneri, Criminalizing Sex Work in Italian Women’s Writing (1865-1921)”. Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Convention, October 2023
“From Mater dolorosa to Mater Degenerata: Anxiety, Nation, and Reproduction in Liberal Italy.” 2nd Symposium Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth-Century Italian Studies (INNCIS), March 2023
“Stories of Willful Girls in Post-war Italy: Videographic Essays on My Brilliant Friend”, 52nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) Convention, March 2021 (Virtual)
Invited as guest speaker at the Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour at the University of New Hampshire in April 2024.
Guest lecture on the film Shun Li and the Poet (English) at OSU, Italian 2053: Italian Cinema (Spring 2024)
Guest speaker at New York University for the Seminar “Italian Feminisms” by Prof. Joseph Perna. Presented: Donne e Madri Degeneri. Reproduction, Gender, and Class in Liberal Italy (1865-1922), April 2023
Interview with Will DiGravio on the videography essay on “My Brilliant Friend” for weekly newsletter Notes on Videographic Criticism https://thevideoessay.substack.com/p/volume-2-issue-5-rio-bravo-roast, 2021
Teaching