Rate My Professor Meriel Tulante

Dr. Tulante’s scholarship focuses on post-World War II Italian cultural production and national identity, with a particular emphasis on the novelist Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015). Her monograph, Italian Chimeras: Narrating Italy through the Writing of Sebastiano Vassalli (Peter Lang, 2020), explores his contributions and was presented at the Biblioteca Civica Negroni in Novara, Italy, in 2022. Key publications also include “Naples as Heterodoxy: Seventeenth-Century Female Heresies in Sebastiano Vassalli’s Io, Partenope” (NeMLA Italian Studies XLIV, 2023, pp. 174–186); co-editor of “Revisioning / Revisiting Naples in the New Millennium” (NeMLA Italian Studies XLIV, 2023); “A House in Flames: Environmental Ethics in the Work of Sebastiano Vassalli” (Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature, 2016, pp. 79-96); “Milan in Senegal: Immigration and National Identity in the Novels of Pap Khouma” (L’Italia allo specchio, 2015, pp. 297-309); and “High Fashion in Film: Italian Identity and Global Anxiety in Valentino: The Last Emperor and Gomorra” (Journal of Italian Cinema & Media Studies 1.3, 2013, pp. 245–262). Her research extends to Italian fashion and film, and migrant/postcolonial literature in Italian, including works by women authors on diaspora and identity. She held the Wolf Humanities Center Regional Fellowship for the 2021–2022 Forum on Migration, investigating Somali-Italian migration narratives.