Giovanni Miglianti, Ph.D 2022

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Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Wesleyan Univeristy

Giovanni Miglianti holds a PhD in Italian Studies. Before coming to Yale, he studied at the Universities of Udine (Laurea in Lettere), Leiden (Erasmus studentship), and Cambridge (MPhil in Comparative Literature), and he worked at the Wiener Holocaust Library in London. His main research interests lie in modern Italian literature and cultural history, with a special focus on affect theory, representations of the Holocaust, antifascist exiles to the United States, and Italian dialect poetry. His doctoral dissertation, written between Yale and the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, analyzes the notion of pudore (a sense of modesty, decency, and privacy) in Primo Levi’s works.

At Yale, Giovanni founded and convened the Memory Studies in Modern Europe working group, which organized a variety of interdisciplinary events, including an international conference on Resistance and Collaboration in Occupied Europe co-sponsored by the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and by several Yale departments and programs. In 2019, he was Visiting Instructor in Italian Studies at Wesleyan University, where he taught a course on the history of emotions in twentieth- and twenty-first century Italy, and Visiting Scholar at the MHiC-Lab (Medical Humanities in Context) of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3.

Dissertation: “The Paradox of Affect: Exposure and Modesty in Primo Levi’s Work”

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