Giulia Pellizzato

Giulia Pellizzato

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Giulia Pellizzato conducts research at Harvard since 2020. During the year 2021 she was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the project Transatlantic Transfers: The Italian Presence in Post-War America, funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. 

While at Harvard as a TA and a Pedagogy Fellow, Giulia developed a new line of research, related to dialogic engagement with literature and nature in higher education. She is expanding this inquiry through her second PhD, in Value Creating Education for Global Citizenship at DePaul University, Chicago. 

Before coming to Harvard, Giulia was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Italian Department at Brown University, thanks to a postdoctoral grant funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation for the project: An Adventure Overseas, Almost a "Renaissance". Italian fiction in the United States after World War Two. She obtained her first PhD in Italian Studies at Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland, in 2018. 

Pellizzato's research interests include 21st, 20th and 19th-century Italian and transnational literature, the transatlantic circulation of literary works and ideas, translation studies, value-creating education for global citizenship, environmental education, collaborative and creative writing, and pedagogy of literature. Her published research focuses on women in publishing, transatlantic literature, translation practices, collaborative writing, reception studies, archives of the twentieth century, and authors including Goffredo Parise, Jolanda Insana, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Leonardo Sciascia, Ippolito Nievo. 


Her first book, Prezzolini e Parise: un'amicizia transoceanica, was published by Leo S. Olschki in 2021.

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