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Books
Roberta Cauchi-Santoro & Costanza Barchiesi, Ferrante Unframed: Authorship, Reception and Feminist Praxis in the Works of Elena Ferrante. Florence: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2021.
Beyond the Suffering of Being: Desire in Giacomo Leopardi and Samuel Beckett. Florence (Italy): Firenze University Press, 2016. Series: Studi di italianistica moderna e contemporanea nel mondo anglofono/Studies in Italianistica in the Anglophone World.
Chapters
"Elena Ferrante's Women Intellectuals: Writing and the paradoxical Relationship to the Mother." Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art, and Intellectual History. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 53-66.
“Writing from the Womb: A Cixousian Reading of Elena Ferrante’s La figlia oscura.” Femminismo e femminismi nella scrittura italiana dall'Ottocento al XXI secolo. Eds. Michela Prevedello and Sandra Parmegiani. Florence: Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2019. 141-156.
“The Dianoetic Laughter of Desire: Humour in Giacomo Leopardi.” Humor, educatión y arte [Humour, Education & Art]. Ed. Camilo Cuéllar. Bogotá, Colombia: Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, 2018. 17- 34.
“Una morte seducente: eros-thanatos, il desiderio e la “jouissance” lacaniana nelle poesie del ciclo di Aspasia di Giacomo Leopardi.”Il pensiero della poesia. Eds. Enrico Minardi and Cristina Caracchini. Florence (Italy): Firenze University Press. 105-118.
Articles
“Nostos and 19th-century Italian-Canadian Immigration: Mapping the earliest Latin Quarters.” Patterns of Nostos in Italian-Canadian Narratives. Ed. Gabriel Niccoli. Special Issue of Italian Canadiana. Vol. XXXV, (2021) Thematic Issue on “Nostos.” 71-77.
“Ridendo dei nostri mali trovo qualche conforto”: Giacomo Leopardi’s Humour. International Studies in Humour. Ed. Ephraim Nissan. (2018). 5.1: 2-19.
“Mapping Intangible Cultural Heritage: Safeguarding the Memories of a City’s Historic Core.” Cultural Mapping: Making the Intangible Visible. City, Culture and Society. Vol. XXX. Eds. Nancy Duxbury and Alys Longley. (2015).
“Compassion in Giacomo Leopardi: A Levinasian Reading of ‘La Ginestra o il fiore del deserto’” Italica.92.3 (Fall 2015). 796-812.
“ ‘Non che la speme, il desiderio è spento’: Giacomo Leopardi, Samuel Beckett and the Quietist Tradition.” Italian Culture. XXXIII.I (2015): 39-54.
