Julia Pucci, Ph.D 2020

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Associate Director at Choate Rosemary Hall Summer Programs Office

Julia Claire Pucci received her BA from Yale College (BK ’13) and her MA/MPhil from the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (’18). She researches testimony, historiography, and storytelling in postwar Italy. Her dissertation, “Speaking to an Absence: Lost Languages and the Language of Loss in the Works of Primo Levi,” probes the historical narratives and linguistic heritage offered in several of Levi’s works, yielding new reflections on Jewish alterity in the Italian State and the complex relationship between language and identity. 

 

Her most recent publication, “The First Italian Microhistory: Levi’s Il sistema periodico, Neorealism, and the Advent of Microhistory” (forthcoming in Italica), traces the origins of Italian microhistory back to a burgeoning documentary impulse that came to dominate postwar Italian popular and scholarly culture. She has also published an article entitled “A Call to Prayer: Reading Shemà in Levi’s Testimony” (2017), which offers a close reading of Levi’s epigraph poem to Se questo è un uomo alongside the teachings and traditions of the liturgical Shemà and its Blessings. 

Dissertation: “Witnessing the Diaspora: Language, Memory, and (Micro)history in the Works of Primo Levi

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