Dr. Cristina Lombardi-Diop

Visiting Assistant Professor in Modern Languages and Literatures and Women’s Studies and Gender Studies 

clombardidiop@luc.edu

Research Interests

• Black Europe and African Literature in Italian
• Race Theory and Whiteness Studies
• Colonial and Postcolonial Literature in Italy
• Gender and Colonialism
• Modern and Contemporary Italian Narratives
• Post-war Italian Film

Selected Recent Publications

Books 

• Bianco e nero: Storia dell’identita’ razziale degli italiani. Co-authored with Gaia Giuliani. Florence: Le Monnier, forthcoming 2013.
• Postcolonial Italy: Challenging National Homogeneity. Lombardi-Diop, Cristina and Caterina Romeo, eds. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. 

Articles 

• “Residence Roma: The Making and Unmaking of a Migrant Vertical Village in Rome.” Global Rome. Edited by Isabella Clough Marinaro and Bjorn Thomassen. Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University Press, forthcoming 2013.
• “‘Staying Long in Water Does Not Turn a Stick into a Crocodile:’ The Transformative Powers of Senegalese Culture in Italy.” The Cultures of Migration: Diverse Trajectories and Discrete Perspectives.  Eds. Graziella Parati and Anthony Tamburri. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011.
• “Spotless Italy: The Ubiquity of Whiteness in Fascist and Post-War Consumer Culture.” California Italian Studies. Vol. 2, 2011. Eds. Albert R. Ascoli and Robert Stam. <http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8vt6r0vf>.
• “Igiene, pulizia, bellezza e razza. La ‘bianchezza’ nella cultura italiana dal Fascismo al dopoguerra.” Parlare di razza: La lingua del colore tra Italia e Stati Uniti. Eds. Tatiana Petrovich Njegosh e Anna Scacchi. Verona: Ombre corte, 2012
• “Ghosts of Memories, Spirits of Ancestors: Slavery, the Mediterranean , and the Atlantic.” Recharting the Black Atlantic: Modern Cultures, Local Communities, Global Connections. Eds. Annalisa Oboe and Anna Scacchi. London: Routledge,  2008. 162-180.
• “Selling and Storytelling: African Autobiographies in Italy.” Italian Colonialism: Legacy and Memory. Eds. Jacqueline Andall and Derek Duncan. Oxford, Bern: Peter Lang, 2005. 217- 238.
• “Pioneering Female Modernity: Fascist Women in Colonial Africa.” Italian Colonialism. Eds. Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Mia Fuller. New York: NY, Palgrave MacMillan, 2005. 145 – 154.

Education

• Ph.D., Comparative Literature, 1999,New York University, New York,  NY,  With Honors. Dissertation: Writing the Female Frontier: Italian Women in Colonial Africa, 1890-1940
• M.A., African and African American Studies, 1992, Yale University, New Haven, CT. MA Thesis: Against the American Dream: African-American Culture in Italy, 1940-1990
• Laurea, Foreign Languages and Literatures, 1989, University of Rome, Italy, Summa Cum Laude (110 e lode/110). Thesis: The Genesis of Richard Wright’s Native Son
• U.N.E.D. Certificate, Lengua y Literatura Española, 1985-1989,  Instituto De Cultura Española, Rome, Italy
• Certification, Oral Proficiency Tester, 2005, American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

Courses Regularly Taught

• LITR 200 – Masterpieces of European Literature
• LITR 202- Modern European Novel
• LITR 264 – Italian Film Genre
• WSGS 101 – Introduction to Women’s Studies and Gender Studies
• WSGS 201 – Contemporary Issues in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies – Gender and Migration in Contemporary Europe
• WSGS 201 – Contemporary Issues in Women’s Studies and Gender Studies – Women and Totalitarianism
• WSGS 380/497 – Queer Theory 

Professional Association Membership

• The European Association for Commonwealth Literatures and Language Studies (EACLALS), 2005 –  Present
• Modern Language Association (MLA), 1998 - Present
• American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS), 1998 – Present
• American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA), 2009 - present