Donatella Izzo

Donatella Izzo è professoressa ordinaria di Letteratura angloamericana presso l'Università “Orientale” di Napoli, dove ha fondato e co-dirige, insieme a Giorgio Mariani,  OASIS-Orientale American Studies International School. È Co-director del “Futures of American Studies” Institute diretto da Donald E. Pease presso il Dartmouth College (USA). È stata Presidente dell'AISNA (Associazione Italiana di Studi Nord-Americani) e della Henry James Society. I suoi principali interessi di ricerca riguardano la letteratura statunitense dell'Otto e del Novecento, la letteratura Asian American, il graphic novel, le narrazioni seriali televisive, la teoria femminista e di genere, la teoria della letteratura. Ha pubblicato, oltre ad altri volumi, una monografia su Henry James (Portraying the Lady. Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James, University of Nebraska Press, 2001), saggi su volumi editi, tra gli altri, da Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Temple University Press, e articoli in numerose riviste italiane ed estere, tra cui, oltre ad Ácoma, América critica, Amerikastudien, Anglistica-A.I.O.N., Between, Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media of The Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), Fictions, The Henry James Review, Iperstoria, Nuova Corrente, Paragone, REAL Yearbook, RSA Journal, RSV–Rivista di Studi Vittoriani: un elenco aggiornato delle sue pubblicazioni è reperibile al link unora.unior.it/cris/rp/rp02536. Attualmente (2022) sta completando una storia letteraria degli Stati Uniti per gli studenti delle università italiane e un volume sulla cultura politica delle detection narratives letterarie e televisive, dall'Ottocento agli USA del post-11 settembre 2001.

Donatella Izzo is professor of American Literature at Università “Orientale,” Naples. She is the co-founder and co-director (with Giorgio Mariani) of OASIS-Orientale American Studies International School, and a co-director of the “Futures of American Studies” Institute directed by Donald E. Pease at Dartmouth College (USA), as well as a former president of AISNA (che Italian Association of American Studies) and of the Henry James Society. Her research interests span nineteenth- and twentieth-century US literature, Asian American literature, the graphic novel, TV series, feminist and gender theory, and literary theory. Besides other volumes and edited volumes, she has published a full-length study of Henry James (Portraying the Lady. Technologies of Gender in the Short Stories of Henry James, University of Nebraska Press 2001), and has contributed to volumes published by (among others) Blackwell, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Temple University Press, as well as numerous Italian and international scholarly journals, including Ácoma, América critica, Amerikastudien, Anglistica-A.I.O.N., Between, Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media of The Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS), Fictions, The Henry James Review, Iperstoria, Nuova Corrente, Paragone, REAL Yearbook, RSA Journal, RSV–Rivista di Studi Vittoriani: a complete, updated list is available at unora.unior.it/cris/rp/rp02536. She is currently (2022) at work on a literary history of the United States for Italian university students and a volume about the political philosophy of detection narratives in nineteenth-century literature and in post-9/11 TV series in the USA.