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Rebecca West
Rebecca West is the William R. Kenan, Jr Distinguished Service professor emerita at the University of Chicago. She has published over 100 articles in modern and contemporary Italian literature and culture, cinema studies and feminist studies. She has authored Eugenio Montale: Poet on the Edge (Harvard University Press, 1981) and Gianni Celati: The Craft of Everyday Storytelling (University of Toronto Press, 2000). She has edited Pagina-pellicola-pratica: Studi sul cinema italiano (Longo Editore, 2000); The Cambridge Companion to Modern Italian Culture, with Zygmunt Barański (Cambridge University Press, 2001); Italian Feminist Theory and Practice, with Graziella Parati (Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2002); and Scrittori inconvenienti: Essays by and on Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gianni Celati with Armando Maggi (Longo Editore, 2009).