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Marianna Nespoli
Marianna Nespoli is a teaching fellow and Ph.D. candidate in Italian in the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies at UCLA. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Italian literature, cinema, ecocriticism, food studies and gender studies, as well as on language pedagogy and applied technology. Currently, she is working on her dissertation entitled ‘Riso amaro: A cultural history of rice in modern Italy’, which analyses how the collective perception and consumption of rice in Italy since unification has been shaped by various forms of cultural production including literature, the arts and media, as part of the shifting role played by rice in the Italian imagination.
Contact: Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, Royce Hall 347, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1235, USA.