Rate My Professor Annamaria Pagliaro

Dr. Annamaria Pagliaro is a Senior Lecturer in Italian Studies in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, a position she has held since joining the institution in 1991. Prior to Monash, she taught at La Trobe University and the University of Melbourne. She earned a Master of Arts and a PhD from the University of Melbourne. Pagliaro played a key role in the establishment of the Prato Monash University Centre as a member of its first working party and served as its Academic Director from 2005 to 2008. She remains actively involved as a member of the Centre's Advisory Group and coordinates and teaches the Italian Studies Programme in Prato during January and February each year. Throughout her over 30-year academic career, she has fostered cultural and educational exchanges between Australia and Italy, particularly through her leadership at the Prato Centre and contributions to Italian studies in Australia.

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.