Rosetta Giuliani Caponetto

Associate Professor of Italian 

Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures                                                                  Auburn University
E-mail: rgc0006@auburn.edu

Biography:

Associate Professor of Italian Studies, born in Somalia and area of academic interests include Italy’s Colonialism in Africa; African diaspora literature and film of Italy; Blaxploitation and Italian cinema; Representations of Italian Americans; Postcolonial nostalgia; Food movements and activism; Philanthropy Studies. She is the author of Fascist Hybridities. Racial Mixing and Diaspora Cultures under Mussolini (Palgrave, 2015).