Melissa Coburn

• Italy 1865-1920
• Narrative
• Women’s Writings
• Tropes
• Race and Colonialism

• PhD, Purdue University
• MA, Purdue University
• BA, Indiana University

Program Director, Italian 

• Fulbright Award, 2006
• Tenure and promotion to associate professor, 2015
• Teaching awards at Purdue University and at Scripps College, 2002 and 2006

Books

Race and Narrative in Italian Women’s Writings Since Unification. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2013. 162 pp.

Journal Articles

“The Uncanny from Freud to Flaiano: A Reprise.” Italica: Journal of the American Association of Teachers ofItalian 92.4 (2015): 881-899.

“‘The Argument is Reversible’: Tropological Revision in the Colonial Debate after the Battle at Dogali.” Italian Studies (annual issue on Cultural Studies) 69.3 (Autumn 2014): 340-56. 

“Resistance-at-risk: The Critique of Fascism and the Ethics of Writing in Natalia Ginzburg’s Lessico famigliare.” Italica: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of Italian 84.4 (2007): 755-70.

“Oltre ‘la razza non esiste.’ Nuove vesti della disuguaglianza e l’esigenza di un anti-razzismo più robusto.” Mai praticamente uguali.  Studi e ricerche sulla disuguaglianza e sull’inferiorità nelle tradizioni religiose. Ed. Federico Squarcini. Florence: Società Editrice Firenze, 2007. 205-20.