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Rosario Pollicino
Rosario Pollicino is an instructor in Italian studies at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from Western University, Ontario. He co-edited (with Alberto Baracco) Italian Experiences of Trauma through Film and Media (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2022) and he is completing the manuscript provisionally entitled Traumatic Existence: Transnational Identity of the Italian–Libyan Community, which aims to retrieve Italian settlers’ individual and collective traumatic memory originating from the (post)colonial period in Libya. His scholarly interests include literary, cultural, documentary and film studies. Specifically, his interdisciplinary interests focus on transnational Italy and Mediterranean studies. His scholarly articles have been published in Quaderni d’Italianistica, NeMLA Italian Studies and InVerbis, among other journals.
Contact: Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 617, J. Welsh Humanities Building, SC 29208, USA.