Rate My Professor Annamaria Pagliaro

Her research specializations encompass 19th and early 20th century Italian literature, literary theory, gender studies, and Italian theatre, with extensive publications on the evolution of the 19th century novel from Italian Verismo to Modernism. Key works include her monograph 'The Novels of Federico De Roberto: From Naturalism to Modernism' (2011, Troubador Publishing Ltd.), which examines De Roberto's major novels within the context of naturalism and modernism. She co-edited 'Luigi Capuana: Experimental Fiction and Cultural Mediation in Post-Risorgimento Italy' (2019, Firenze University Press) with Brian Zuccala. Selected articles feature 'The Silent Victim: Rape and Sexuality in Giacinta and ‘Tortura’ by Luigi Capuana' (2021, Italian Studies, 76(3), pp. 307-319), 'Forging Italian Readers: Capuana’s Aesthetics for the Modern Italian Novel' (2019), and 'Immaginario letterario e deideologizzazione: Tom O'Neill e la ricezione di Leonardo Sciascia in Australia 1980-2000' (2019, Todomodo). With 27 research outputs documented since 1989, Pagliaro serves on the editorial board of the Melbourne-based journal Spunti e Ricerche since 1999, has acted as guest editor in 2003 and 2011, associate editor in 2017, and is an external member of Annali della Fondazione Verga. Her scholarly contributions enhance the understanding of Italian literary traditions and their reception Down Under.