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Professor  Graziella Parati holds a 'laurea' in English and Scandinavian languages and Literatures from the Universita' Statale in Milan, Italy. She holds a Ph.D. In Italian Literature from Northwestern University. At Dartmouth she teaches 19th and 20th Italian culture in the department of French and Italian. She has a joint title in Comparative literature in which she teaches Italian American Culture (Literature, History, and Film) and a joint title in Women's and Gender Studies. Her books include Public History, Private Stories: Italian Women's Autobiography (1996) devoted to gender studies in Italian culture, and the interdisciplinary book entitled Migration Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture (University of Toronto Press, 2005), which is devoted to migration studies and contemporary Italian multiculturalism, and the interdisciplinary manuscript in progress entitled Minor Italy: The Art of Talking Back in a Destination Culture, which is devoted to migration studies and contemporary Italian multiculturalism. It deals with migrants' literature, film, and the relationship between artistic creation and the law. She has also edited the following volumes: Mediterranean Crossroads: Migration Literature in Italy, Italian Cultural Studies (co-edited with Ben Lawton), and Italian Feminist Theory and Practice: Equality and Sexual Difference (co-edited with Rebecca West).
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