Alessia Ricciardi
Department of French and Italian

Alessia Ricciardi (Ph.D. Yale, DEA Université de Paris-VII) is an Associate Professor of French and Italian. A specialist of 20th-century Italian and French literature and culture, she is the author of The Ends of Mourning: Psychoanalysis, Literature, Film (Stanford University Press, 2003) which won the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione prize for Comparative Literature awarded by teh MLA. She has published articles on Calvino, Pasolini, D'Annunzio, Proust, Fellini, Godard, Aleramo, and Cixous. Her main interests are contemporary culture (including literature, philosophy, and film), psychoanalysis, feminist writing and
criticism, and diaspora studies. In the fall of 2000, Professor Ricciardi served as a Visiting Professor at the Université de Paris-VIII, where she taught courses on Proust and Benjamin and on Melanie Klein. She is currently working on her second book, Lightness and Weakness: Italian Culture and Postmodernity.

a-ricciardi@northwestern.edu