Contact Information: Office: Wilson 124 Phone: 4-4645 E-mail: cd4y@virginia.edu Mail: P.O. Box 400777 Responsibilities: Director, Italian Undergraduate Program; Italian Major Advisor.

CRISTINA DELLA COLETTA is Professor of Italian and is currently serving as the associate chair of the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. She holds a Laurea in Lingue e Letterature straniere from the Università di Venezia, Italy, an M.A. in Italian from the University of Virginia, and a Ph.D. in Italian from the University of California, at Los Angeles. Her interests include modern and contemporary Italian literature, particularly historical fiction, film and cultural studies, women studies, and the use of technology in the humanities. Cristina Della Coletta has written a book on the culture of World's fairs in early twentieth-century Italy and one on the metamorphoses of historical narratives in modern Italian fiction. She has authored several articles on film adaptation theories (Poe and Fellini, James M. Cain and Visconti; Tabucchi and Corneau), exotic narratives (Gozzano, Calvino), intertextuality (Berto, Bassani), feminism and utopianism (Banti, Ortese), historical narratives (Lampedusa, Morante, Eco), and the genre of the fantastic (Capuana). She recently authored an instructional website devoted to Italian film. Cristina Della Coletta has been the recipient of the University of Virginia/Terza Università di Roma Research Grant (2001), the University of Virginia Teaching and Technology Fellowship (2000), and the University of Virginia Teaching Fellowship, (1998-1999).

Selected publications:

World's Fairs, Italian-Style: The Great Expositions in Turin and Their Narratives, 1850-1915. Forthcoming, U of Toronto P.

Plotting the Past: Metamorphoses of Historical Narrative in Modern Italian Fiction. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP, 1996.

"Tra Guido Gozzano e Edgar Poe: Notturno Indiano di Antonio Tabucchi." Forthcoming, Nuova Prosa.

"The Morphology of Desire in Elsa Morante's L'isola di Arturo." Forthcoming, Under Arturo's Star: The Cultural Legacies of Elsa Morante. Ed. Stefania Lucamante and Sharon Wood. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue UP.

"Transtextual Narratives: Guido Gozzano's 'Goa: la dourada.'" Modernist Declensions: Italian Culture between Decadence and Avant-Garde. Eds. Luca Somigli and Mario Moroni. Toronto: U of Toronto P. 2004. 191-218.

"Against the Grain of Risorgimento Narratives: Memory, Writing, and the Construction of Personal and National Identities in Anna Banti's Noi credevamo." Annali d'italianistica 5 (2003): 62-88.

"Driving Hell Home: James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice and Luchino Visconti's Ossessione." Studi in onore di Marga Cottino-Jones. Ed. Laura Sanguineti-White. Florence: Cadmo, 2002. 153-169.

"The White Lies of Guido Gozzano's Second-Hand India." Rivista di studi italiani 18.1 (2000): 86-114.

"Gli anti-promessi sposi di Giuseppe Berto ovvero il processo ai Padri." MLN 115.1 (January 2000): 94-119.

"Scrittura come utopia: La lente scura di Anna Maria Ortese." Italica 76.3 (1999): 371-384.

"La cultura del giardino: miti e appropriazioni letterarie nel Giardino dei Finzi-Contini di Giorgio Bassani." MLN 113 (1998): 138-163.

"L'Oriente tra ripetizione e differenza nelle Città invisibili di Italo Calvino." Studi novecenteschi 24 (1997): 411-431.

"L'altra metà del Seicento: da I promessi sposi di Manzoni a La chimera di Vassalli." Italica 73 (1996): 348-368.

"Teoria realista e prassi fantastica: 'Un Vampiro' di Luigi Capuana." MLN 110 (1995): 192-208.