Paola Nastri is an Independent Research Scholar at Yale University and at the Center for Research in the Humanities at the New York Public Library. She holds a PhD in Italian Language and Literature from Yale University, where she is a mentor on Cross Campus and an Alumni Schools Committee interviewer for prospective students. Her academic interests encompass seventeenth-to nineteenth-century Italian literature and culture, interdisciplinarity, interrelations of literatures, figurative arts, visual culture and the nexus of language and literature. She is the author of essays on literature and language pedagogy, edited an Italian textbook: ‘Pinocchio. Storia di un burattino’, Farinelli, 2013 (with Francesca Cadel), and ‘How to Use Literature in the Italian Language Class’, NeMLA Italian Studies, 2019 (with Paola Quadrini), and published ‘Spazi Riflessivi in Passeggeri Notturni’, Routledge, 2020 (with Daniela Antonucci). She is currently working on a study of passions in literature and the visual arts.
