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Meriel Tulante

Associate Professor of Italian Studies
Program Director, Hallmarks Core for General Education

Contact Information

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Ravenhill Mansion
Philadelphia, PA 19129

Email Meriel Tulante

215-951-2607

Associate Professor of Italian Studies
Program Director, Hallmarks Core for General Education

Focus Areas

Italy, literature, fashion, film

Education

PhD, AM, Romance Languages and Literature, Harvard University
BA, French and Italian, Cambridge University

Publications (selected)

  • Di Nino, Nicola and Meriel Tulante eds. “Revisioning / Revisiting Naples in the New Millennium”, NeMLA Italian Studies XLIV (2023).
  • Tulante, Meriel, “Naples as Heterodoxy: Seventeenth-century Female Heresies in Sebastiano Vassalli’s Io, Partenope,” NeMLA Italian Studies XLIV (2023) 174–186.
  • Tulante, Meriel, Italian Chimeras: Narrating Italy through the Writing of Sebastiano Vassalli (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020)
  • Tulante, Meriel. “Sebastiano Vassalli”. The Literary Encyclopedia Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453. eds Carla Bregman, Jo Ann Cavallo (2017)
  • Tulante, Meriel, “A House in Flames: Environmental Ethics in the Work of Sebastiano Vassalli” in Ecocritical Approaches to Italian Culture and Literature: The Denatured Wild ed. Pasquale Verdicchio, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books 2016: 79-96.
  • Tulante, Meriel, “Milan in Senegal: Immigration and National Identity in the Novels of Pap Khouma”, in L'Italia allo specchio, eds. Fabio Finotti and Marina Johnston, Venice: Marsilio, 2015: 297-309.
  • Tulante, Meriel, “High Fashion in Film: Italian Identity and Global Anxiety in Valentino: The Last Emperor and Gomorra,” Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies 1:3 (September 2013), 245–262.

Awards

Cornerstone: Learning for Living (Teagle Foundation/NEH, $250,000, planning grant $25,000), 2020-2024.

Research Interest

Dr. Tulante’s research has centered on the novelist Sebastiano Vassalli (1941-2015), about whom she has published Italian Chimeras: Narrating Italy through the Writing of Sebastiano Vassalli (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2020). Other research interests include the intersection between Italian fashion and film, exploring how national identity is manifested through cinema and dress. She also considers migrant/postcolonial writing in Italian, where she considers questions of diaspora and identity in the work of women migrant or second-generation authors. 

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