Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature 319 Dartmouth Hall (603) 646-2919 keala.jewell@dartmouth.edu
Research Interests
Italian Surrealism (visual and literary)
European Magical Realism
Representation of monstrosity
European Gothic prose of the 19th and 20th centuries
Selected Publications
The Art of Enigma: The de Chirico Brothers & the Politics of Modernism, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004
Editor, Monsters in the Italian Literary Imagination, Wayne St. University Press, 2001
Una storia poetica, EmpirÃa, 1997 (Italian translation of Pasolini chapters in The Poiesis of History)
The Poiesis of History: Experimenting with Genre in Postwar Italy, Cornell University Press, 1992
Co-editor, with Beverly Allen and Muriel Kittel, The Defiant Muse, The Feminist Press, 1986, with several translations from of Lyrics from Italian to English
"Magical Realism, Real Politics: Massimo Bontempelli," in Modernism/Modernity 15, 3 (2008)
"The Victors of Modernity," in Italian Modernism: Italy Between Decadentism and the Avant-garde, edited by Mario Moroni and Luca Somigli, University of Toronto Press, 2004.
Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature