Professor of Italian
About
My research and teaching interests include nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, cultural studies, film, the radical
movements of the 1960s and 1970s, post-autonomia, citizenship, border, migration studies, community and urban space, globalization, and relations between literature, philosophy, and political theory.
Recent and Selected Publications:
Books
Scritture minori. Letteratura, linguaggio politico e pratiche di resistenza (Verona: Ombre Corte, 2021).
Città nomadi. Esodo e autonomia nella metropoli contemporanea (Verona: Ombre Corte, 2008).
Cesare Pavese: una vita imperfetta. La crisi dell'intellettuale nell'Italia del dopoguerra (Ravenna: Longo, 1998).
Translations
Binetti, V. and Williams G. (translators), Roberto Esposito, The Origin of Politics. Hannah Arendt or Simone Weil? Fordham University Press, 2017. Original title: L’origine della politica. Hannah Arendt o Simone Weil? Roma: Donzelli editore, 1996.
Binetti, V. and Terradura, A. (translators), Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days: memorie dai Weather Underground. Milano: Cox Edizioni, 2007 (reprint: Roma: DeriveAprrodi, 2016). Original title: Fugitive Days. A memoir by Bill Ayers. Penguins Books: London, 2003.
Binetti, V. and Casarino, C., (translators), Giorgio Agamben, Means without End: Notes on Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. Original title: Mezzi senza fine. Note sulla politica. Torino: Bollati Boringhieri, 1996.
Areas of specialization and interest:
- 19th-20th Century Italian Literature
- Cultural Studies
- Film
- The radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s
- Migration studies
- Citizenship and border
- Post-autonomia
- Relations between Literature, Philosophy, and Political Theory
Award(s)
- Rackham Faculty Fellowship, U-M, Winter 2013
- Chicago Humanities Institute Fellowship, The Univ. of Chicago, 1996-97
- The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning Grant, Harvard, 1993
- Certificate of Distinction in Teaching. (Awarded by the Committee on Undergraduate Education), Harvard University, 1992-1994