Nicoletta Marini-Maio is Co-Editor of the bilingual academic journal Quaderni del ‘900. Her interest in teaching pedagogy and scholarly activities have cross-fertilized ideas and provided insights for both her teaching and research. Her academic interests focus on 20th- and 21st-century Italian literature, theater, and film, particularly the intersections between politics, performance, narrative mode, and collective memory. She has published articles and book chapters on representations of the so-called years of lead (1970s) in Italian film and theater, on coming of age in Italian film, and on Paolo Sorrentino’s cinema. With Ellen Nerenberg and Thomas Simpson she has co-edited a critical translation of Corpo di stato, by the Italian playwright Marco Baliani (forthcoming from Fairleigh University Press), and with Colleen Ryan-Scheutz the volumes Set the Stage! Teaching Italian through Theater. Theories, Methods, and Practices (Yale University Press, 2009) and Dramatic Interactions: Teaching Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures through Theater. (Cambridge Scholars Publishers, 2011). Marini-Maio is completing a monograph on the cinematic and theatrical representations of the 1978 abduction and assassination of Italian statesman Aldo Moro, based on her interpretation of the Derridian notion of “spectrality." She has taught Italian language, literature, theater, and film throughout the curriculum and introduced Italian through theater at the University of Pennsylvania, Middlebury College, and Dickinson College. She holds degrees from the University for of Perugia, the University of Rome, and the University of Pennsylvania. She is Associate Professor of Italian at Dickinson College, USA.
