Vetri Nathan

Associate Professor of Italian

Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures                                    University of Massachusetts, Boston
E-mail: Vetri.Nathan@umb.edu

Biography:

Vetri Nathan is associate professor and head of the of Italian studies program in the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (MLLC) at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Nathan received an MA and PhD in Italian from Stanford University in 2009. His research and teaching interests include immigrant cultures and globalization in contemporary Italy, European colonialism and postcoloniality, Italian cinema, and global food studies. He has published various articles on these topics. His book, Marvelous Bodies: Italy’s New Migrant Cinema (Purdue University Press, 2017) was the first monograph to be published on this subject.