I am Senior Lecturer in the Department of FRIT here at The Ohio State University where I have been teaching several courses on Italian literature and eco-cinema, Italian-American crime fiction, and Italian language. A native of Southern Italy in a small town called, Matera in Basilicata, I received a Laurea Triennale in Filosofia e Scienze della cultura from the Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bò as well as a Master’s degree in Filosofia e Linguaggi della Modernità from the Università degli Studi di Trento. While completing my Ph.D at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Romance Literatures and Languages, I have joined the faculty at the University of Elon and then moved here to Columbus, Ohio in 2018 where I have had the privilege of working with great colleagues and staff!

I have received several fellowships and awards for excellence in teaching and research, including the UNC Armida Marconi Falvo Award Excellence in Italian Studies, the UNC Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship through which I conducted research in literary archives in Bologna, Pavia, and the Institute Primo Levi in Turin on Holocaust studies. I have also participated at the UNC Future Faculty Excellence Program in strengthening critical skills among students and applying evidence-based intercultural methodologies in the classroom. Recently, I also collaborated with the Office of Distance Education here at OSU at the forefront of active learning methodologies in hybrid/online courses and received a Grant for Meaningful Inquiry by the Drake Institute OSU to revise and design inquiry-based assignments in large GE courses on media studies. https://ascode.osu.edu/asc-teaching-forum-active-learning-strategies-online-and-hybrid-courses

I am a cultural eco-historian and a media scholar. I am invested in questions and issues that speak to the impact of bodily representations, environmental humanities, and dynamics of resistance/resiliencies in Italian modern and contemporary literature, poetry, and cinema. My book manuscript Bodies that Matter in Postwar Italy investigates three semantic trajectories of the impact of sensorial, sociopolitical and linguistic ‘storying bodies’ from postwar literatures/media to today’s narratives (Primo Levi, Liana Millu, Domenico Rea, Anna Maria Ortese, Wu Ming, Elena Ferrante, and the partisan poets Andrea Zanzotto and Pier Paolo Pasolini among others) through theories of affective ecology, trauma studies, and biopolitical thought (esp. French, Italian, and German traditions). The first chapter has also appeared in a shorter version in the volume Scrivere l’orrore, edited by Romano Vecchiet and Angela Fabris on the Holocaust https://www.sbhu.it/scrivere-l-orrore/

In the last few years, I have also been deeply interested in the impact of ecologies and theories of natural worlds to reframe and rethink how the Italian peninsula, the Mediterranean Sea, and its iconic images explore dynamics of power, landscapes, and care. I have reviewed volumes on Italian ecologies, designed new courses that tackle the sustainability challenges in EU platforms and spaces exposing students towards the debates around the Anthropocene era. To this end, I was a participant of an International projects aimed at reflecting on eco-pedagogical praxis and methods in our curriculum across a variety of perspectives (decolonial, ecofeminism, race studies, etc..) and my contributions have appeared on the online website EcoModLand https://www.ecomodlang.com

My reflections on ecologies and visual imaginations of the Italian South have appeared Basilicata and Southern Italy Between Film and Ecology, an edited volume which explores representation of Italian spaces of the South, its socio-historical transformation, its eco-logical strata and characters through documentaries, photography, visual imagination, and films. My other articles have appeared in the L’Avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes, and in the online magazine, LavoroCulturale (particularly Christian Kuate’s works and the question of Blackness in Italy). https://www.lavoroculturale.org/spazi-del- razzismo-strutturale/giuliano-migliori/

I am an avid reader of ecopoetry. My short stories on eco-subjectivity have also appeared on the bilingual magazine, Agua del Pozo/Waters of the well. Currently, I am working on a piece, titled "Looking for Mathera. Poetics from the rocks ", a longing personal gaze-journey into the caves of the old city of Matera and I am reflecting on the challenges and languages of natural subjectivity in a collection called, 'Nature Homing'.  https://watersofthewelljournal.blogspot.com/

Publications

• Econarratives in Italian classes. Approaches and Methodologies. (Forthcoming conference proceedings, JRS  Special Issue, Fall 2024)
• Exordium. In Baracco A., Gieri M., (eds). Basilicata and Southern Italy between Film and Ecology. Palgrave MacMillan Chicago, 2022.  https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13573-6_6
• L’interfaccia corporale: riflessioni fenomenologiche nei diagrammi letterari di Primo Levi e Liana Millu. Scrivere l’orrore. Letteratura e Shoah. Udine: Biblioteca Civica “V. Joppi”, 2020: 45-60. https://www.sbhu.it/scrivere-l-orrore/
• Revisualizing the human body in Crialese and Rosi’s cinematic narratives. L’Avventura. International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes. Roma-Bologna: Il Mulino, 1/2017: 113-128. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17397/87192

Creative Writing

• Looking for Mathera. Poetics from the rocks (in progress)

• The shape of the sea / La forma del mare (Agua del Pozo. Literary Journal. May 2018) https://watersofthewelljournal.blogspot.com/

• The Human Face (Agua del Pozo. Literary Journal. Aug 2021) https://watersofthewelljournal.blogspot.com/

Recent Activities and Lectures

• Contributions to the implementation of the website Greening Modern Languages https://www.ecomodlang.com
• Active Learning, Office of Distance Education. https://ascode.osu.edu/asc-teaching-forum-active-learning-strategies-online-and-hybrid-courses

Interviews

• A story edited by Franny Larazus for The Ohio State Newsletter https://news.osu.edu/mafia-film-class-explores-stereotypes-culture-cinema

Blog Interventions

• “Spazi del razzismo strutturale. Leggere il presente per ripensare la Storia e le pratiche di discriminazione” (Spaces of systemic racisms. Reading the present to rethink History and practices of discrimination). LavoroCulturale Blog, 22 Sept. 2020, https://www.lavoroculturale.org/spazi-del- razzismo-strutturale/giuliano-migliori/

Recent and Upcoming Courses

• Italian 3001: Green Italy (UNESCO and Ecocriticism)
• Italian 4225: Italian Identities (nationality, race, and ecology)
• Italian 4224: Environmental Italy. Beauty, Power, and the Apocalypse
• Italian 3220: Italy through the Ages (Nature and Humanity)
• Italian 2055: Mafia Movies 
• Italian 2053: Italian Cinema (Sex and Politics)
• Italian 5101: Intensive Italian
• Italian 2102: Contemporary Italian Society
• Italian 1101-1103: Italian Blended Language (Online/Hybrid/in-person)