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Silvia Valisa

Demos Fellow

Associate Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics

Silvia Valisa is Associate Professor of Italian Studies. She holds a laurea in lettere moderne from the Università di Pavia, Italy, a D.E.A in French literature from the Sorbonne Nouvelle, France, and a Ph.D. in Italian Studies from the University of California, Berkeley (2007). She was a post-doctoral scholar at Brown University, RI (Cogut Center for the Humanities, 2009) and has held a research fellowship from the Newberry Library, Chicago (2017).

Research Interests:

  • History of Text Technologies - History of Print
  • Digital Humanities
  • Gender Theory, Gender Studies in Italy
  • Visual Studies - Photography and Cinema
  • History and Theory of the Novel