Annunziata Zevola

Annunziata Zevola

First Name: 
Annunziata
Last Name: 
Zevola
Title: 
Ph.D. Candidate
Phone : 
416-575-9260
Office Location : 
Carr Hall, Room 318
Biography : 

Annunziata Zevola is a PhD candidate in the Department of Italian, Spanish, Portuguese & Latin American Studies at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation offers a biographical, literary, and historical-linguistic study of Annie Vivanti's (1866–1942) oeuvre, with particular attention to Vivanti's contribution to the Italian literary landscape. Her research interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century women's writing, the history of the Italian language, Italian linguistics and dialectology. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals including the "Pirandello Society of America Journal" and "Italiano LinguaDue". Together with prof. Eloisa Morra, she co-founded the “Contemporary Italian Women Literature” (CIWL) research group, dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of women's authorship between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She is also a researcher with the "Osservatorio degli Italianismi nel Mondo" (OIM) and she is co-editor of a forthcoming volume on representations and interpretations of liminality in Italian literature and culture.
 

Publications:  
(2025) Era sempre quella voce. Forme sonore della soggettività nella 'Marion' di Annie Vivanti. Suoni. Interdisciplinary Journal on Soundscapes and Literary Music [forthcoming].

(2024) The Stepdaughter as Raisonneuse. Towards a Feminine Reading of the Pirandellian Character. Pirandello Society of America Journal, 36. 15-34; (2024) “'La lingua del iesse'. Osservazioni linguistiche nell’'Italia randagia' di Amy Bernardy”. Italiano LinguaDue, 16.2. 299-311.

Education: 
MA (Italian language and culture for foreigners), University of Naples "L'Orientale"
BA, (Linguistic and cultural mediation), University of Naples "L'Orientale"
Personal Website: 
https://utoronto.academia.edu/AnnunziataZevola

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Areas of Interest: 
  • Italian Women's Literature
  • History of the Italian Language
  • Italian Linguistics
  • Italian Dialectology

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Dissertation Supervisors: 
Franco Pierno
Rita Fresu
Eloisa Morra
Presentations: 
“Rumori di voci e di musiche. Paesaggi sonori e identità femminile in Annie Vivanti”, CAIS [Canadian Association of Italian Studies] Annual Conference, Bologna, Italy, June 09-10, 2025.
“Case senza sole. Rappresentazioni dello spazio domestico nella narrativa di Maria Messina”, University of Padua Doctoral Conference, Padua, Italy, June 05-06 2025.
“‘L’ho veduta e la rivedrò’. On the connection between Annie Vivanti and Matilde Serao”, AAIS [American Association of Italian Studies] Annual Conference, Philadelphia, United States, March 13-15, 2025.
“‘May the girl, and May the boy’. Un caso di antropomorfismo nei 'Divoratori' di Annie Vivanti”, GSAIS [Graduate Students’ Association of Italian Studies] Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 01-03, 2024.
“The Stepdaughter as Raisonneuse. Towards a Feminine Reading of the Pirandellian Archetype”, NeMLA [Northeast Modern Languages Association] Annual Conference, Boston, United States, March 07-10, 2024.
“Ripensare l’umano: il binarismo uomo-oggetto in Anna Maria Ortese”, CAIS [Canadian Association for Italian Studies] Annual Conference, Montréal, Canada, May 04-07, 2023.
Administrative Service: 
Secretary-Treasurer, Graduate Students' Association of Italian Studies, 2023-present
University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union Representative, 2022-2023
Other Website: 
Academia.edu: 
https://utoronto.academia.edu/AnnunziataZevola

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