Silvia Valisa
Media Review Editor
2022-2026
Dept. of Modern Languages and Linguistics
Florida State University
E-mail: svalisa@fsu.edu
Biography:
Silvia Valisa, Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at Florida State University. Her research and publications are devoted to gender studies, women writers, character theory, trauma studies, print culture, history of journalism and Italian photography. Her first monograph, Gender, Narrative and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2014. In 2021 she co-edited with Morena Corradi the volume La carta veloce. Figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento for FrancoAngeli. She is the founder and director of the digital project Il secolo, devoted to the digitization of national newspaper Il secolo. She is the co-founder and co-director of Ottocentismi, an Interdisciplinary Network for Nineteenth Century Italian Studies (ottocentismi.org) and is a member of the advisory board of the periodical Quaderni d’Italianistica.
Select publications and contributions:
Digitization of Italian newspaper ll secolo (Sonzogno, 2013-)
Gender, Narrative and Dissonance in the Modern Italian Novel (U Toronto, 2014)
La carta veloce. Figure, temi e politiche del giornalismo italiano dell’Ottocento (FrancoAngeli, collana Studi e ricerche di storia dell’editoria 2021)
“Making News: the Sonzogno Affair (1875) and the Print Networks in Liberal Italy” California Italian Studies, 8(2) 2018.
A World History of Women Photography (co-edited by Luce Lebart and Marie Robert; Thames & Hudson, 2022) Entry: Wanda Wulz.