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Hilary Emerson
Hilary Emerson is an assistant teaching professor and coordinator of Italian at the University of Rhode Island. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a specialization in gender and film studies. She has published in the journals The Italianist, Annali d’Italianistica, and in the collected volume Interpretation and Visual Poetics in Medieval and Early Modern Texts (Brill, 2021), edited by Beatrice Arduini, Isabella Magni and Jelena Todorović. Emerson has presented papers at the Northeast Modern Language Association Convention, American Association for Italian Studies Conference and American Association of Teachers of Italian Conference. Her research interests include: bonds of friendship in contemporary Italian literature and film, Naples, the Neapolitan feminist avant-garde, ecofeminist theory and mad studies. Her pedagogical interests include: diversity and inclusion, critical pedagogy and film literacies.
Dissertation directed by Dr Patrick Rumble, University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Contact: Department of Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI 02881, USA.