Melina Masterson

She/Her

Undergraduate Program Director, Senior Lecturer

Faculty
Melina Masterson posing in front of a scenic vista of a town.
Contact
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Location
303 Herter Hall

Office Hours for Fall 2024:
Mondays & Wednesdays 10:00-11:00 am
or by appointment

Education

  • BA, English, Colorado College
  • MA, Italian Literature and Culture, Boston College
  • PhD, Italian Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Connecticut

Research Areas

  • 20th and 21st century Italian literature
  • Cultural Studies/Popular Culture
  • Media Studies
  • Second Language Acquisition and Pedagogy

Publications

Journal Article

  • “Towards a Collective Intelligence: Transmediality and the Wu Ming Project.” Between [Online], 4.8 (2014).

Translations

  • Chaos in Theater: Improvisation and Complexity, by Anna Cafaro. Peter Lang, 2016. Book-length translation. Italian-English.
  • “The New Right and Metapolitics in France and Italy,” by Massimiliano Capra Casadio. Journal for the Study of Radicalism 8.1 (2014): pp. 45-85. Italian-English.
  • Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali, by Joseph Francese. Firenze University Press, 2012. Book-length translation: pp. 1-113. English-Italian.

Open Educational Resources

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