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Giovanna Summerfield
Giovanna Summerfield is Castanoli Endowed Professor of Italian and French at Auburn University, where she also served as associate dean for educational affairs in the College of Liberal Arts. She has published and presented extensively on the long eighteenth-century (1660–1830) French and Italian literature (emphasis on Sicilian writers), religious and philosophical movements, women’s studies, Mediterranean studies and cinema. Some of her articles on cinema have appeared in Cahiers d’études romanes, L’Avventura: International Journal of Italian Film and Media Landscapes, Italian Women Filmmakers and the Gendered Screen and Film Locations: Cities of the Imagination, Paris. She is the editor and contributor of the collective volumes Sicily on Screen: Representations of the Island and Its Culture (McFarland, 2020) and Sicily and the Mediterranean: Migration, Exchange, Reinvention (Palgrave, 2015). She serves as the editor-in-chief for the Italian studies journal Italica and as book review editor for Modern Italy.
Contact: Department of World Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Auburn University, 6030 Haley Center, Auburn, AL 36849, USA.