Annunziata Zevola

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.