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Romance Languages and Literatures
Maria Anna Mariani is Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures. She is a specialist in Italian autobiography and studies the relationship between memory and narrative, specifically the theme of trauma and survival. She is the author of Sull’autobiografia contemporanea: Nathalie Sarraute, Elias Canetti, Alice Munro, Primo Levi [On Contemporary Autobiography] (Carocci, 2012), and co-author of a history of Italian literature for upper-level secondary students, LiberaMente: Storia e antologia della letteratura italiana.