Giulia Ricco, of Romance Studies and International Comparative Studies

Please note: Giulia has left the "International Comparative Studies Program" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

My research focuses on Italian and Brazilian literature and intellectual history, with an emphasis on representations of state violence, fascism, and transitional justice. My dissertation, titled “The Lesser Evil: Legitimizing State Violence in Italy and Brazil,” reveals how fascist utopias are reinvented across time and space. I am originally from Italy where I obtained both my B.A. (2010) and M.A. (2012) at the University of Bologna, in Foreign Languages and Literature, with an emphasis in English and Portuguese.  

Academia.edu: https://duke.academia.edu/GiuliaRicco

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Room 210
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/giulia-ricco/

Education:

MA	Università degli Studi di Bologna	2012
BA	Università degli Studi di Bologna	2010

Specialties:

Portuguese
Italian
Comparative Studies: Translation, Travel Narratives, Trans-Culturality

Keywords:

Comparative studies • Fascism • Law and literature • Literature • Literature and history • Memory in literature • Political violence in literature

Recent Publications

1. Ricco, G, Framing Violence: Reader and Narrator in Pai contra Mãe, in Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis (June, 2016), SPRINGER, ISBN 1137541741  [abs]