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Cara Takakjian
Associate Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies
Senior Lecturer, Italian Studies
20th and 21st century Italian popular and youth culture
Comics and graphic novels
Film and Visual Culture, particularly the relationship between text and image
Underrepresented voices and identities
Ethnographic film and literature
Contact details
Location
South College
150 Hicks Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9274
United States
Room E520
About
Publications
- "An Amalgam of Voices: A Prismatic Approach to Memory and History in Gipi's Graphic Novels." European Comic Art, 15.2 (2022): [link].
- "Book Review: The Photoromance: A Feminist Reading of Popular Culture by Paola Bonifazio." gender/sexuality/italy, 8 (2021): [link].
- "Listening to the Invisible: Re-establishing Personhood in Migrant Documentary Film." Luci e ombre 2.4 (2014): [link].
- "Bound and Dreaming: Female Empowerment through Sado-Masochistic Fantasy in Guido Crepax's Valentina.” ImageTexT 7.4 (2014): [link].
- "Gipi and the Continuation of the Neorealist Tradition in Italian Graphic Novels.” The International Journal of Comic Art 14.2 (2012): 332-47.
- "Creating Unity through Disunity: Futurism as Paradoxical Movement.” InThe Future of Text and Image: Collected Essays on Literary and Visual Conjunctures. O. Amihay and L. Walsh, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012. 309-23.
- "Consuming Humanity." Review of Susan Sontag's On Photography. The Romance Sphere (2011).
- "The Photographic Effect of History in La Storia." L'anello che non tiene. Journal of Modern Italian Literature 20-21.1-2 (2009): 118-28.