Faculty
Assistant Professor
Maria Truglio
Maria Truglio, Assistant Professor of Italian, earned her BA from Wesleyan in 1992 and her PhD from Yale in 2001.
Her research and teaching interests include 19th- and 20th- century Italian literature, critical methodologies, Italian American studies, and children’s literature. Her book, Beyond the Family Romance: The Legend of Pascoli (University of Toronto Press, 2007) offers a psychoanalytic perspective of the work of Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), one of Italy’s most celebrated and innovative poets, with a particular focus on the uncanny.
In addition to her work on Pascoli and on Italian gothic writers, she has published articles on Primo Levi, Annie Vivanti, Carlo Collodi, and Umberto Eco. Her current research project explores children’s literature in Italy from the unification period though fascism (1860-1945).
