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Italian

Allison A. Cooper

Assistant Professor of Romance Languages

Contact Information

acooper@bowdoin.edu
(207) -
Romance Languages
(none)


Fall 2012

  • On leave of absence for the 2012-13 academic year


Allison Cooper

Education

  • Ph.D., Italian. University of California, Los Angeles.
  • M.A., Italian. University of California, Los Angeles.
  • B.A., English. Knox College.

Research and Teaching Interests

  • Italian modernism and the avant-garde
  • Modern and contemporary Rome
  • Italian cinema 
  • Gender and sexuality studies
  • Language pedagogy and curriculum development


Mafia Movies: A Reader. Ed. Dana Renga. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011“Growing up Camorrista: Antonio and Andrea Frazzi’s Certi bambini.” In Mafia Movies: A Reader. Ed. Dana Renga. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. 346 – 353.

“Gender, Identity, and the Return to Order in the Early Works of Paola Masino.” In Italian Modernism: Italian Culture Between Decadentism and Avant-Garde. Ed. Mario Moroni and Luca Somigli. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. Pp. 379 – 399. 

Translation

Co-translator. Michelangelo Antonioni, The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema. Ed. Marga Cottino-Jones. New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1996. Reissued by University of Chicago Press, 2007. 

Publications in Progress

Book

Italian Modernism: Italian Culture Between Decadentism and Avant-Garde. Ed. Mario Moroni and Luca Somigli. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004 Modern Rome between the Sacred and the Profane, an exploration of modern representations of the Eternal City within a broader framework of the dichotomy of the sacred and the profane.

Article

"Italy's Other Mafias in Film, Television and Other Media," a collaborative essay with several other contributors for The Italianist's annual film issue examining representations of the Sacra Corona Unita, the 'Ndrangheta and the Banda della Magliana.