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Saskia Ziolkowski

Associate Professor of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
205 Language Ctr, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Who’s Afraid of Italo Svevo? Routes of European Modernism between Trieste and Virginia Woolf’s London

Journal article Modern Language Quarterly · March 1, 2024 AbstractThe Triestine author Italo Svevo spent a considerable amount of time in London and its environs between 1901 and 1926. His experiences there influenced his modernist writing, including Zeno’s Conscie ... Full text Open Access Cite

Italian ghetto stories: Toward a transnational literary history

Journal article Forum Italicum · August 1, 2023 This article examines Italian ghetto stories, which are distinguished by confusions of time, continuities, tourism, reflections on collective identities, and movements in and out, in order to outline one potential literary history. In contrast to German-la ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

The Emergence of Austro-Italian Literary Studies

Journal article Journal of Austrian Studies · 2023 Open Access Link to item Cite

For a Jewish Italian Literary History: from Italo Svevo to Igiaba Scego

Journal article Italian Culture · January 1, 2022 This article argues that recognizing Jewishness as a crucial part of modern Italian literary history offers one path for discussing the current and historical diversity of Italian culture. The first section discusses key twentieth-century Italian authors — ... Full text Open Access Cite

Austro-Italian Encounters: An Introduction

Journal article L'Anello che Non Tiene: journal of modern Italian literature · 2020 Introduction to "Austro-Italian Encounters" a group of articles by Sandra Parmegiani, Salvatore Pappalardo, Elizabeth Schächter, Susanne C. Knittel, and Mimmo Cangiano. These five articles build on perspectives that see the nation as part of a complex, lar ... Open Access Cite

The ends of an empire: Pier antonio quarantotti gambini's il cavallo Tripoli and joseph roth's radetzkymarsch

Journal article Comparative Literature Studies · January 1, 2015 Italian Triestine literature tends to be seen as somewhat foreign to the Italian literary tradition and linguistically outside of Austrian (or Austro-Hungarian) literature. Instead of leaving it as "neither nor," viewing it as "both and" can help shape the ... Full text Open Access Cite

Primo Levi and jewish Italy

Journal article Journal of the Kafka Society of America · 2012 Open Access Cite