Daria Bozzato

Pronouns: She/her/hers 

Daria Bozzato joined Bryn Mawr College in 2020 after teaching all levels of Italian language classes and interdisciplinary courses on the Mafia, Italian cinema, and Italian food culture at Gettysburg College, Kenyon College, and SUNY New Paltz. Educated in Italy in Portuguese Studies and in the pedagogy of teaching Italian to foreigners, in 2011 she moved to the US to pursue a Ph.D. in Romance Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Her dissertation examines the influence of theosophy, spiritualism, and the occult on the Futurist oeuvre as a return to a primitive sensibility. Because of her study on the effects of scientific discoveries on 20th-century Italian society, she is currently working on how photography was used in psychiatry before the approval of Law 180 (1978), also known as Basaglia law, to represent the alienation of mentally ill people in Italy. 

Daria Bozzato’s ongoing conference activity and publications demonstrate her dedication to both Italian Studies and second language acquisition. To promote a more equal and inclusive classroom, recently she started working on the publication of an OER elementary Italian textbook -Voci: Corso elementare di lingua e culture italiane - which aims to provide an accurate portrait of contemporary Italian culture by focusing on issues such as LGBTQ+ rights, migration, and diversity. 

Selected Publications and Presentations:

Voci: Corso elementare di lingua e culture italiane – Volume I https://oer.haverford.edu/intro-to-italian/ 

“Buoni chirurghi dalle mani veggenti: l’occulto e il primitivo nel tattilismo marinettiano.” Romance Notes 62.1 (2022): 133-142. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/860251 

“Madness and Empathy in Marco Turco’s C’era una volta la città dei matti: A Basaglian Perspective.”Lavventura 2 (July-December 2021): 181-194. https://www.rivisteweb.it/doi/10.17397/102712 

“Papini esoterico: l’occultismo come millenario intruglio di ermetismo e di cabala.” Forum Italicum (Under review) 

 “Beyond National Borders: New Perspectives on the Lusophone Literary Tradition.” Hispanófila 172 (2014): 99-104. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43808818 

Contribution to the revision of the vocabulary, culture, and music sections of Sentieri 3/e, Vista Higher Learning. 

Review of Francesca Italiano and Irene Marchegiani. Percorsi: l’Italia attraverso la lingua e la cultura. 3rd Ed. Upper Saddle River (NJ): Pearson, 2014, in Annali d’Italianistica 33 (2015): 397-99. 

The Voice of the Pazzi: Madness in Italian Photography before 1978. Presented at the MLA International Symposium convention. Lisbon, Portugal. July 24, 2019. 

“C’era una volta la città dei matti”: Madness and Empathy in Marco Turco’s Cinema. Presented at the NeMLA convention. Washington, D.C. March 24, 2019. 

Photography, Madness, and Marginalization: The Case of “Gli esclusi” by Luciano D’Alessandro. Presented at the AAIS convention. Winston-Salem, NC. March 16, 2019. 

The Touch, the Medium, and the Primitive: New Perspectives on Marinetti’s Tactilism. Presented at “Bramosia dell’ignoto.” Prague, Czech Republic. April 15, 2016. 

Photographing the Invisible: Bragaglia the “Ghostbuster.” Presented at the NeMLA convention. Hartford, CT. March 18, 2016. 

L’erotismo e la macchina: il desiderio futurista in Marinetti e Álvaro de Campos. Presented at the AAIS convention. Boulder, CO. March 27, 2015. 

Masterchef: imparare l’italiano cucinando. Presented at the NeMLA convention. Harrisburg, PA. April 5, 2014.