Federica Parodi is a graduating Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Italian Studies at Yale University, where she founded the Other(ed) Italies Working Group. Her research focuses on twentieth-century Italian literature and culture, with a dissertation on the aesthetic space of protest in the 1970s. Her work brings Italian Studies into dialogue with Voice and Sound Studies, Performance Theory, and Postcolonial perspectives.
Her scholarship on modern radical textualities has appeared or is forthcoming in il verri, Italian Modern Art, and Forum Italicum. She co-edited and introduced the volume Sistema periodico: Il secolo interminabile delle riviste (Pendragon, 2018), and translated Gianluca Rizzo’s Poetry on Stage (Marsilio, 2025). She also translated excerpts from Jennifer Scappettone’s Poetry After Barbarism: The Invention of Motherless Tongues and Resistance to Fascism (forthcoming with Columbia University Press in 2025), which will appear in il verri.
She is currently Assistant Curator for Modern European Books & Manuscripts at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She also served on the organizing committee for The Reappearing Pheasant, a gathering of Italian and American poets held at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at NYU.