Giovanni Miglianti
Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian
300 High Street, 304860-685-2619
BA University of Udine
MPHIL University of Cambridge
MPHIL Yale University
PHD Yale University
Giovanni Miglianti
Giovanni Miglianti is a scholar of modern Italian culture, with a focus on twentieth and twenty-first century Italian literature, cultural history, and affect theory. His doctoral dissertation, written between Yale University and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, analyzes the notion of pudore (a sense of modesty, decency, and privacy) in Primo Levi’s work. Expanding on this research, his current book project – Affect and the Holocaust: Rethinking Representation in Italian Culture (1944-2022) – rethinks Holocaust memory through the lenses of emotion and sexuality, providing the first affective history of cultural representations of the Holocaust in Italy.
A native of Bologna, Giovanni studied at the universities of Udine (Laurea in Lettere), Leiden (Erasmus studentship), and Cambridge (MPhil in Comparative Literature), prior to moving to the States to earn his PhD in Italian Studies from Yale University. At Yale, he was the co-founder of the Memory Studies in Modern Europe working group and of the Understanding Italian Studies lecture series, as well as a member of the organizing committee for the Annual Festival of New Italian Cinema. He taught language and culture courses at Yale and Wesleyan, and he was invited to present his research and teach as guest lecturer at several colleges and universities, including Cornell University and the New Sorbonne University (Paris 3), where he was Visiting Scholar at the Medical Humanities in Context Lab. His publications on contemporary Italian poetry and representations of the Holocaust include peer reviewed articles in the Journal of War and Culture Studies and California Italian Studies.
Academic Affiliations
Office Hours
By appointment (please email).
Courses
Fall 2023
ITAL 111 - 01
Intermediate Italian I
ITAL 111 - 02
Intermediate Italian I
RL&L 130F - 01
If This Is an Author
Spring 2024
ITAL 112 - 01
Intermediate Italian II
ITAL 216 - 01
Words and Sex