Research Interests
Italian (and European) Cinema; Relationship between Literature, Cinema and other Arts; Women Writers; The tradition of the Comic and of the Fantastic; Traveling Literature; Autobiography; Politics of Immigration and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Italy.

Publications
- “ Il realismo fantastico delle inchieste ‘Donne mie” (under review)
- "Con gli occhi chiusi"da Tozzi alla Archibugi, per aprirli con il cinema ", Modern Language Studies Journal, 2006.
- "Dacia Maraini and the poetics of female migration". Refereed Selected Proceedings of the Seventh International ISSEI MIT Press, 2004: CD ROM, (2006).
- "Benni e le nuove avventure di Pinocchia: comici appunti per una moderna 'Education Sentimentale", Modern Language Studies Journal, 2005 issue.
- "Una sfida giocosa. Maraini-Stein 'di due una di una due," Italian Culture, vol. 20, n. 2 2002 (2004).
- "L'Edipo decapitato e L'Eros consolatore in Crudeltà all'aria aperta," RLA, v. 12, 2000 (2004).
- "The mosaic of an artistic people: 'Recita napoletana' by Giovanna Mozzillo", International Journal of the Humanities, vol. 1, (2003).
- " The autobiographical landscape in Maria Orsini Natale. " Refereed Selected Proceedings of the Sixth International ISSEI MIT Press, 2002: CDROM, (2003).
- "A challenging nostalgia in search of reunion. Desire in 'The distance from the moon' by Italo Calvino," West Virginia University Philological Papers, vol 49, (2002).
- "Dionisio l'anacronista. La parodia della figura del medico in 'Enrico IV," Working Papers in Romance Literatures and Philology, v. 2, Fall (1997): 67-80.

Work in process:
Daniela De Pau & Georgina Torello, eds. Watching Pages, Reading Pictures: Cinema and Modern Literature in Italy. Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge: 2008.

Courses Usually Taught:
Lower level Italian and Spanish language courses
IAS 360 The Mediterranean in Film
IT 331The Sixties - From Paper to Screen
IT 333 Female Autobiographies
IT 371 Masterpieces of Italian Cinema - Italian Women Writers of Short Stories
IT 411 Federico Fellini - The Poetics of the Fantastic - The Cinematographic Genre of "Italian Comedy"
IT 431 Italian Female Directors - Humor in Twentieth Century Literature - Hands-on reality: intellectual involvement after '68
IT 471 Pasolini Between Literature and Cinema - History of Italian Cinema - New Regionalisms in a Global World
IT 480 Minor Thesis Direction
IT 499 Italian Journalism
Lang 180: Bernardo Bertolucci: poetry and revolution