Dr. Ilaria Serra
Ph.D, Comparative Studies, Florida Atlantic University
Assistant Professor of Italian Studies
Areas of Expertise
Italian cinema
Italian literature
Italian song
History of Italian immigration
Email: iserra1@fau.edu
Office Phone:561-297-0268
Ilaria Serra was born in Venice, Italy. She is an assistant professor of Italian and Comparative Studies. She earned her Ph.D. at Florida Atlantic University. Her research covers Italian cinema, Italian literature, Italian song and the history of Italian immigration to the United States. She also leads the FAU Study Abroad Program in Venice, Italy [click here for promo video] where she also teaches the course “Venice and Its Reflections” [ click here for course video ].”
- Italian Language
- Venice in the Italian Literary Imagination (graduate)
- Scrivere se stessi: l’autobiografia italiana (graduate)
- Translating Identities: Italian America (graduate)
- The Italian City between History and Imagination
- Italian Culture through Recent Italian Cinema
- Italy in Lyrics (Italian History through Its Music)
- Italian Literature from the Baroque to the Present
- Masterpieces of Italian Cinema
- Italian-American Cinema
- Italian Cinema and Literature: from Text to Screen
- Italian Dialectology
Books
Immagini di un immaginario: L’emigrazione italiana negli Stati Uniti fra i due secoli: 1890– 1925 (Cierre, 1997). http://openlibrary.org/books/OL3743421M/Immagini_di_un_immaginario
The Value of Worthless Lives: Writing Italian American Immigrant Autobiographies (Fordham UP, 2007). http://www.amazon.com/Value-Worthless-Lives-Immigrant-Autobiographies/dp/0823226786/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273171041&sr=8-2
The Imagined Immigrant. Images of Italian Emigration to the United States between 1890 and 1924 (Farleigh Dickinson UP, 2009). http://www.amazon.com/Imagined-Immigrant-Emigration-Fairleigh-Universitly/dp/0838641989/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273171041&sr=8-5
Serra, Ilaria. “From Literature to Film through Figurative Arts: Italian Imagistic Substitutions.” Adaptation. 4. 2(September 2011). Print and Web. http://adaptation.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol4/issue2/index.dtl
Serra, Ilaria. “The Melody of Italy. Using Music to Teach Italian History and Culture.” Italica . 88.1 (Spring 2011). 94-114.
Serra, Ilaria. “Italy: America’s bride. The Image of Italy in
Life Magazine
(1950s).” Italica 86: 3 (2009). 452-470. Print.
Serra, Ilaria. “Creare una memoria collettiva: Le donne e i documentari italoamericani.” Oltreoceano.
Percorsi Letterari e Linguistici 2 (2008): 85-92. Print.
Serra, Ilaria. "Roberto Benigni's
Ultimo del Paradiso.
"
Dante. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante Alighieri
3 (2006): 129-145. Print.
Serra, Ilaria. “Rhyming Immigration. Two Italian American Autobiographies in Verses.” VIA. Voices in Italian America. “New Expressions” Special Issue 17 (2006): 69-84. Print.
Dinev, T., Bellotto, M., Hart, P., Colautti, C., Russo, V., Serra, I. “Privacy Calculus Model in E-commerce - a Study of Italy and the United States.” European Journal of Information Systems 15: 4 (2006).
< http://www.palgrave-journals.com/ejis/journal/v15/n4/index.html>. Web.
Recent Book Chapters
Serra, Ilaria. “Introduction.” Ma così è la vita. Such is Life.
Ed. Laura Ruberto. New York: Bordighera Press, 2010. 17-31.
http://www.i-italy.org/bloggers/14006/and-so-we-left-leaving-italy-and-all-my-dear-ones
Serra, Ilaria. “Outsider Rhetoric in Italian Immigrant Autobiographies.” Agency in the Margins: Stories of Outsider Rhetoric. Ed. Anne Meade Stockdell-Giesler. New York: Farleigh Dickinson UP. 143-164. Print.
http://www.fdupress.org/book_descriptions/9780838642146.html
Serra, Ilaria. “Travel Literature: Crossing the Gaze between Italy and America.” Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture. Ed. Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick. New York: Modern Language Association, 2007. 578-588. Print.
http://www.mla.org/store/CID44/PID395
Serra, Ilaria. “Forme e deformità della famiglia nel cinema italoamericano” Quei bravi ragazzi. Il cinema italoamericano contemporaneo. Ed. Giuliana Muscio and Giovanni Spagnoletti. Venezia: Marsilio, 2007. 164-172. Print.
